Nutrition Books

I bought this book and read it in 1 night and absolutely loved it. I have 50 pounds to lose and bought this book with the hope that it would be a great reference book to inspire me throughout the dieting process. I plan on keeping it with me all through the process and refer to it when I need to laugh or need that extra bit of inspiration as this book has both.

I laughed out loud reading this book. Joanne Kimes tells funny stories that we can all relate to while actually giving us information. It makes dealing with the stressful world of dieting a bit easier. I have already given a copy of this book to a friend who is also miserable on her diet... at least this will make her laugh.

Very thorough guide. Need to have a good grasp of nutrition concepts before tempting to read. Very helpful with up to date information any dietitian can appreciate.

Messina is a well-known name to vegetarians through her cookbooks, and to the science of nutrition through her scholarly articles. This book, though erudite and intended for dietitians, is valuable to everyone interested in vegetarian nutrition. I would recommend it to physicians, owners of diet salons, nurses, as well as every vegan who wants to understand the value of full nutrition. Great job!

Most diets don't work because they aren't 'personalized' to an individual's body and blood type: Diets And Why Most Don't Work explains the connection between blood types and the kinds of food the body needs to lose weight. Tips on proper eating are geared to this knowledge and provide specific but different formulas for success.

This book explains the connection between blood types and the kind of foods our body requires in order to successfully lose weight and manage our health.

The author, Christal Giessen, has done a lot of research on health and nutrition and provides the reader with many holistic health tips. She also discusses an electronic device called the zapper that has been found to be very successful in killing parasites commonly found in human beings.

Christal Giessen shares her spiritual beliefs and how she is able to gather the strength to maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle. Christal Giessen is the picture of health with a physical structure most people dream of having.

I am confident that you will find this book informative, helpful, and easy to read. This book needs to be readily available to anyone interested in the subject of dieting and health.

Regardless of the theme it usually takes me at least 50 pages to get involved in a book. Not so with "Digestive Awareness". I felt like I was hearing the first sensible explanation for problems that afflict all of us. Interesting, easy to follow and filled with great information.

Like an old fashioned country doctor, Dr. Pollard offers a simple yet
elegant solution to aches and pains we may have been willing to dismiss.

We have forgotten how to listen to our bodies, which tell us everything
we would ever need to know to be healthy. Dr. Pollard shows us how to do
that in order address a multitude of health problems.

The Digestive Awareness Diet explains in layman's terms the importance
of each organ's function and, like cogs in a wheel, how the organs work
together to help us achieve and maintain optimal health. Regardless of
your lifestyle, dietary preferences or medical condition, you will learn
how simple changes can yield healthful benefits.

I liked it so much that I ordered 20 copies to have in my clinic for clients.

Take this book to your chiropractor or healthcare professional!

- Dr. Mary Lee, N.D.
Doctor of Naturopathy

This book is recommended by me all the time. I wish I had found it long ago, but better late than never. When my husband found this book he paid a lot for it and I thought, "It's not going to help." I was so wrong! This book is excellent and researched to the max. I wish the authors would do an update!

Dr. Michael Moore has MD has done a splendid job in his comprehensive overview of a very complex and unknown disease. I have found myself referring to his book often as I travel my journey of porphyria as an AIP patient. Porphyria is a greatly undiagnosed and underdiagnosed disease. Dr. Moore has taken a complex disorder and written his book in such a way that patients can better understand their disorder and at the same time be able to share that information with others who are completely unfamiliar with porphyria including many primary care physicians.An excellent resource and reference book!

The Inches-Off Diet Book is the best diet book I have ever read, or used. I first used it in 1969 and recently reread it to use again. I have tried many, many diets and have lost weight on all of them, but this is by far the easiest to implement. ... In this book, Dr. Stillman doesn't list just one diet. He lists about 40 diets, each perfectly valid in its own right. Use one diet religiously, or mix and match. Stay on one for a day or a week, switch to another if you feel like it for the next, or just stick to one diet. Dr. Stillman allows this and the promised 3-lb weight loss predictably occurs. He creates diets around people's likes and dislikes. He has diets for meat-eaters, diets for alcoholic beverage drinkers, diets for vegetarians, diets for bread eaters, diets for people who don't like to count, diets for people who want to eat one thing. I could go on and on, quite readable and easy to follow. ...
AND IT'S ALL IN ONE BOOK! GET THIS ONE BOOK (this review is for this book only and not for Dr. Stillman's other books).

I first read this book in the late 60s. I became a vegetarian and this was the only book that addressed a diet for vegetarians. I lost weight then and kept it off for many years. I had weight issues on and off all my life, due to emotional stress, and tried many diet and exercise programs. As I got older, losing weight became harder and harder. Then I remembered this book. I couldn't remember the exact title but knew it had to do with inches off. Finally I found the book from a bookseller on Amazon's used book list. When I received the book, I was so happy to see it again after all these years. I used the book and lost 35 pounds without even thinking I was on a diet. Dr. Stillman's approach is simple because you don't have to think so much of what to choose. In my case, I just followed the inches off diet, ate all the vegetables I wanted, including bread, and even wine without ever feeling deprived because these are the kinds of foods I enjoy. However, if you are a meat eater, there is always the quick weight loss diet in which you can eat meat all day long I suppose. I can only say that this is the only diet that was easy for me to do without having to count calories. If you like vegetables and carbs, this diet can work for you.

There are no such things are RARE editions of this book. Don Lemmon's KNOW HOW has always been 300 pages long. The best bet is to purchase the latest editions that will have additional information not found in older copies. If you mention you saw this on Amazon.com, Don Lemmon will ship you the latest version for only $19.95. Forget these con artists claiming the book is worth $50, $60 or even $100.00... Visit donlemmon.com instead.

Don Lemmon's insights are refreshing, new, and easy to understand and apply. I wouldn't recommend any other trainer, besides Don. He understands what it takes to get and stay in shape. His food separation program is the best I've ever found. His exercise recommendations are extremely brief and infrequent, but intense. Most trainers would throw this book out of the window, but for those who seek the truth, get this book.

The 'Introduction' by Peter Valk M.D. discusses the negative overtones of fat: a weakness, a vice, ugly, sexless, weak, and unhealthy. Dieting doesn't work for most people. Extreme obesity is a serious disease. Obesity increases the occurrences of high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and diabetes. Diabetes increases the risk of coronary heart disease. Fatness can't be cured by reduced food intake. A low amount of saturated fats and higher amounts of complex carbohydrates, with regular exercise, can reduce the risk factors for heart disease. The fear of fat has caused epidemics of anorexia nervosa and bulimia among young women. The prejudice against overweight can cause depression, which is worse than being overweight. While more people are overweight than 50 years ago, they are also living longer. The problem with being fat may be in our attitude towards it.

Chapter 1 says fat, in most cases, is not a health hazard and weight loss is not a generally desirable ideal (p.16). Fat is stored energy (after glycogen). While the body can use fatty acids for energy, the brain can only use glucose. Protein can also be used for energy, but is self-destructive. The 20th century fashion for slenderness contradicts thousands of year of human experience (p.19). Ideal weight tables are meaningless by themselves (p.21), but demonstrate credulity. The body-mass index is a created metric that is a guess (p.23). Body weight is relative, not an absolute ideal. Only extreme levels of fatness can be considered a health hazard: you can see this from 50 yards, no measurement needed. Atrens discusses the social factors that make you fat (pp.27-39). The increase in fatness follows a shift to a continuous supply of food (modern life). Urbanization has an affect on fatness, as does social class.

Page 68 explains why "dieting is a health hazard". The diet industry is Big Business and lucrative for magazines and publishers. Sound nutritional practices should not be ignored by counting calories. Exercise is good in itself, even if it doesn't lose weight. Converting fat to muscle affects volume, not weight (p.71). Smoking to lose weight is a cure worse than the disease (p.72)! Chapter 3 notes that fatness indicates intake is greater than expenditure; you must overeat or underexercise (p.73). Eating at night is more likely to result in fat (p.80). Humans are getting both fatter and healthier at the same time (p.83).

Chapter 5 discusses the various diets to reduce fatness. But fatness is not necessarily due to overeating, and undereating does not necessarily lead to slenderness. Atrens comments on the low-energy diets, the no-energy diets, low-carbohydrate diets, liquid-protein diets, and lunatic-fringe diets. The failure of these diets is due to "very powerful basic biological forces" (p.116). Failed dieters are the norm. Carbohydrates are the main ingredient of human diets. Cholesterol is synthesized in the liver (p.126). Typical Western diets have far too much fat in them. The composition of a diet is important to overall health status (p.128). Chapter 7 discusses the many, many quack dieting schemes that enrich their vendors. Chapter 8 summarizes this book, but you should read the preceding chapters to understand the background. It is also the longest chapter. People could have benefited from this book if they read it thirty years earlier. Atrens mocks the vitamin C recommended by Linus Pauling "of Nobel Prize fame" because of "a large-scale controlled study in the San Francisco area" (p.226). [Using vitamin C worked for me, even with smaller amounts than Pauling recommended.] The San Francisco case may not have the temperature range of the NY area, or the dust and pollutants from western lands.

I had the good fortune to attend Dale Atren's lectures on psychobiology and neuroscience during my undergraduate degree. His lectures were simultaneously hilarious and serious. This book is in that vein (though 'hilarious' is too strong in this case).

The 'take home' message of one of Atren's lecture series was this (as far as I can remember): Forget about fad diets (which is just about all the diets on the market) because they usually do more harm than good in the long-run, both physically and psychologically. Instead, use COMMONSENSE to eat whatever you feel like (which by and large means eating lots of different types of yummy good - like the French do), stop worrying about your weight, and enjoy yourself. Don't be a slave to poorly educated 'nutritionists:' they rely on low self-esteem associated with 'being fat' and so have a vested interest in not revealing to you that frankly, being 'fat' (as opposed to clinically obese) is not really unhealthy at all. And THAT is pretty much the message of this book too. Just don't worry, be fatty.

I have had this book since 1991....it is well worn and clipped and I refer to it every single day. I do wish Dr. Lowell could update this book with a Carbohydrate count along side the Fat Grams and Calories. It would be so beneficial. I have to refer to two different books to determine Glycemic Index or Carbohydrate counts.

I wish Dr. Lowell would update this. I have had my copy for about 10 years now and refer to it over and over for fat and calorie counts for various foods. Granted, some of the specific brands are a bit dated, but there is still a wealth of info in here. I recently searched out and bought a used copy for my brother. Sad to see it is out of print.

I have a very picky 18 month old daughter, and an extremely picky 5 1/2 year old son. My son understands that if Popeye eats all his spinach, he becomes big and strong. Well, since spinach isn't very tasty, he refuses to try other vegetables. Since reading this book with my son, he now loves sweet potatoes and says, "Sweet Potatoes makes you big and strong". My daughter was fascinated by the color and illustration of this book and eats whatever her big brother eats. Thank you, Yori, for taking the time to write a book that helps my kids understand healthy eating habits.

All of my kids, 11, 5, and 1, were drawn to this book. It really made them consider how their eating habits could be affecting them, both physically and mentally. Overall, very encouraging without boring the kids. Can't wait to read Dr. Srong's upcoming stories!