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I just received this book today and, already, I can't put it down! Dolphina's writing style is friendly and conversational making this book a delight to read. The description of the belly dance moves is spot on and easy to follow. I love the beautiful photos -kudos to Dolphina for chosing women of all shapes! I have all of Dolphina's dvds and use them to reinforce what I learn in my weekly belly dance classes. Now, I have her wonderful book to use as well. In fact, I intend to take this on vacation so I can keep up with my dancing! Thanks Dolphina, for producing such an invaluable reference book for belly dancers of all levels of experience! I certainly hope the publisher does a second printing of this book - I would love to give one to every woman I know.

this is a really good book. great visuals, including arrows showing the directions your head, arms or hips should move. good descriptions on what to do. the bellydancers have nice outfits and it really covers all aspects of belly dancing. i've taken a class before and find this to be a great refresher with some new information too. this would be a good gift for someone interested in bellydancing. enjoy!

This book is very helpful and I love the format! I just need to get off my tuff and apply myself. I read through the book and it is marvelous.

I used this book as a filler to lessons while I was traveling and I have to say that it did the trick. Dolphina makes it clear the moves she is expecting you to do and makes suggestions to practicing them that certainly made for a good physical and mental workout. I really love the photography and I like how the book progresses, containing 3 sections so that you can build up to a more difficult workout. The combinations are lovely and put together a very pretty dance once you are complete with drills. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is going to be without lessons &/or dvd access and doesn't want to lose their momentum.

This book can stand on its own as training for belly dance, but I haven't used it that way because I do Dolphina's Goddess DVDs as workouts. The photography is excellent and the descriptions of the moves make sense. If you want to refine your moves in bellydance DVDs, this book provides good tips. It also includes routines, so you can perform belly dance to your own music if you want to expand beyond the traditional DVD soundtrack.

Visually pleasing. The models and settings are lovely, but I didn't feel as if their level of fitness was out of reach, which is nice. There are several models, including Dolphina.

There is a brief history of belly dance in the beginning, but the emphasis is on how to perform moves and the routines.

This book is wonderful, and the recipes are so tasty. If you want to lace baked goods with soy, buy this book. Your kids will love the great muffins, cookies, cakes and pies. The Apple Spice Cake is so good, you will never make it without soy again. It is amazing. I highly recommend this book.

Try these melt-in-your-mouth rolls. Then buy the book. You will never regret it.
ITALIAN HERB CRESCENT ROLLS

1 package active dry yeast
¼ cup warm water (110°-115°F)
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon cooking oil
½ cup tofu, drained and mashed
2 cups nonfat milk, scaled and cooled
¼ cup vital gluten
5-6 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

HERB COATING

3 tablespoons cooking oil
2 teaspoons parsley
2 teaspoons oregano
2 teaspoons thyme
2 teaspoons basil

In a large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Using a food processor or mixer, combine sugar, salt, oil, and tofu. Add to yeast. By hand, stir in milk, vital gluten, and 1-2 cups all-purpose flour. Beat 1-2 minutes. Stir in enough remaining flour to make a stiff dough that pulls away from sides of bowl.

Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic, adding more all-purpose flour, if necessary, to keep dough from sticking to surface. Place in a bowl coated with nonstick cooking spray, turning once to oil top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-2 hours.

Punch dough down. Divide into six parts. In a small mixing bowl, combine the herb-coating ingredients. Set aside. Pull dough into 9-inch circles. Brush each with herb coating. Cut dough into 8 pie-shaped wedges. Beginning with wide end, roll each wedge into a crescent. Arrange on cookie sheets coated with nonstick cooking spray. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-2 hours.

Preheat oven to 350° F. Bake 20-25 minutes or until tops are golden brown. Remove and let cool on wire racks.

Nutrition Per Serving
Calories: 125
Total fat 2.4 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Protein: 2.8 g

Best soyfoods baking book on the market. Try the delicious bread machine breads, all made with soy's goodness. Order today.

This cookbook was excellent at cutting out a lot of the fat and replacing those high fat items with tofu or other soy-based products. Unfortunately, I found a LOT of sugar to be in the recipes. I realize this book is entitled "Beyond Low Fat Baking..." thus indicating that it had cut back on the fat, and "...Cancer Fighting Foods For The Millennium" indicates the soy, but all that sugar is not healthy either. So many people have Type II Diabetes, and everyone in the US seems to be overweight, I wish she addressed this issue as well.

The recipes I tried were very flavorful and tasty. In fact, there was a delicious recipe for a Spice Cake in there that my family loved.

If sugar is not an issue for you, then pick this book up. But if you need to cut back on the sugar, and you do not know how to do that on your own, then do not get this book.

That Tofu and Pumpkin Pie Treat
My advise is simple. I've made this one from Beyond Low Fat Baking over two dozen times. It's the best. Go ahead--try it. Made with a rich grandma type molasses, spicy ginger, cinnamon, and allspice, this pumpkin pie isn't like any other. Why not? It is powerfully enriched with that great American cuisine - tofu.

Yes! This book is about baking with tofu. Now, come on. Give it a chance. The author, Shirleen, has proved that tofu has earned a lot of respect these days. When flopped into a handy-dandy blender, it comes out looking exactly like fluffy, white cream cheese. I tried it. It works. You do bake with cream cheese, now don't you? Of course you do.

The author points out that when blended, tofu looks and reacts in baked products much as cream cheese does. The advantage: tofu is a powerful-packed, vitamin and mineral rich food. The beauty of it is that it just happens to blend right in with the food it is cooked with. Add blended tofu to chocolate, and it picks up the flavor of the chocolate. Toss it in cream cheese, and it tastes like cream cheese. Blend it in pumpkin. Yep, it tastes like pumpkin. That's why it works so well in pumpkin pie. You'll never know that stuff is in there. By the way, pumpkin straight from the can doesn't appeal to many of us either. But, dump in molasses and spices-it's a pie to dream about. Pile on a dollop of whipped cream-it's the American tradition. It's part of the Great Thanksgiving Feast.

To top it off, tofu not only adds a hefty dose of nutrition, but as the author says, tofu added to baked goods actually makes them better. So this Thanksgiving, try something new. Try that tofu and pumpkin thing. Do it for yourself. Do it for your family. Do it because it just plain taste G-O-O-O-O-O-D!
Colonial Pumpkin Pie--from Beyond Low Fat Baking--TRY IT!
Piecrust
1 unbaked piecrust

Filling
1 package low-fat, silken tofu (12.3 ounces) drained and mashed

1 can (16 ounces) pumpkin
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon allspice
2 tablespoons blackstrap molasses
2 egg whites, beaten
1 egg
1 cup low-fat soy milk

Prepare Filling Preheat oven to 425°F. Using a food processor or blender, process tofu until creamy. Spoon into a large mixing bowl. Add pumpkin, sugar, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, molasses, egg whites, egg, and soy milk. Mix ingredients thoroughly. Pour into pie shell. Bake 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°F. Bake 40 minutes longer or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Nutrition Per Serving:
Calories: 275
Total fat: 8.4
Cholesterol: 8 mg.

I have a five of Joyce's books and have been doing her upper body workout, faithfully, every other day for 18 years. Her work outs are well-rounded and doable if you're willing to put the effort forth. Joyce is great on talk shows. She is hysterically funny and I just love that about her. We could all use a little humor. With that said, I didn't see the video where she passed gas, but I could just picture her doing that with a funny look around to see if anyone noticed and just picturing that scene gave me up to a fit of laughter. She knows her subject and is a terrific instructor and could be no other way but her natural, funny, lovable self! I'd like to remind the reviewer who was offended by Joyce's gas passing that even she, the reviewer farts and I hope she isn't offended by my honorable mention. Thank you.

I was so glad to see this book available. I have used Vedral's programs in the past and know they work. No gimmicks, no frills, etc.

The book includes the valuable wall chart of exercises. The pictures are easy to follow and simple hand weights are all you really need.

Thank you!!

This is a great routine and the book is an easy-read that I found quite motivating. I was a bit discouraged, however, when I discovered how long the exercises actually take. It takes me 30 minutes to complete the "8-minute" routines. I would have actually felt more motivated had I been more adequately prepared to allow for the necessary time. That said, I commend Joyce for this book, which also includes a chapter on diet and a chapter on aerobic exercise. I am very encouraged that I may be able to prevent osteoporosis, and am recommending this book to my mom, who was recently diagnosed.

I bought this book because I have the 12-minute Total Body Workout by Vedral and I wanted to see if she had updated her excercises. I was very pleased with this book, the exercises are easy to learn and they work! However, there is no way you can do it in 8 minutes a day without sacrificing proper movement and form. Plan on spending between 15 and 20 minutes per day for four days, 30-40 minutes per day for two days, or about 1 1/2 hours for one day. In the 12-Minute book, you did 2 body parts, 2 exercises each, for 3 reps. In this book, it's 3 body parts, at least 3 exercises each, 3 reps each plus stretching. How on earth did she think you could do it in 8 minutes?

This workout is great, although you may want to do ALL the designated warm-up exercises at the beginning of the workout, in order to avoid wasting time picking up and putting down the dumbbells between sections. If you do this I think it would be much easier to get the workout time down to where the book claims it should be.

I own The 12-Minute Total Body Workout book, and in one respect, this book is better in that it contains a photo chart of all the exercises involved, which "12-Minute" does NOT have. I recommend that you buy a copy of this book, make a copy of the chart, then cut it up and paste each exercise onto index cards, so that you can mix up the order of the exercises every few weeks or so, as well as putting the warmups at the beginning of the workout.

Both books are great.

In Brother to Brother, Reverend Thomas Walker is encouraged to have radical surgery over and over again by urologists who practice bad medicine. The Reverend seems to know propoganda when he sees it and refuses to have his body destroyed for no benefit. He makes good decisions despite the urological establishment's pressure to do the wrong thing. A nice enjoyable read. Like the other physician who reviewed this book, I rate it very high.

Bravo to Dr. Walker for writing such a compelling book about prostrate cancer. This book is certainly a "must have" for all men, especially african-american men.

In the only randomized placebo-controlled study every done on the radical prostatectomy, radical surgery was no better than placebo. Reverend Walker seems to figure this out. Instead of being pushed into surgery by several urologists he undergoes the much less harmful treatment of radiation seed implants. Definitely read this book and note how much pressure was put on the reverend to undergo surgery, while other less harmful options were ignored. The reverend triumphs over his urologists.

This book chronicles more than one man's struggle with this dreadful disease. It provides spiritual hope for the masses of men who are having the same experience. It proves that I don't have to die SPIRITUALLY, SEXUALLY, EMOTIONALLY OR PHYSICALLY from prostate cancer! Thank you, Thomas L. Walker!!!!

As a physician recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, I found the book entertaining and easy to read in 2-3 hours due to the large text. I applaud him for encouraging men to have their prostates checked starting in their 40's. Unfortunately, the book is directed to Blacks more than to all men. The reader is cautioned that the author delays treatment and eventually chooses one form of therapy at a specific institution. The treatment option that has the greatest chance for cure is downplayed. Use this book as only one resource among several. Also, I would have liked more encouragement to let the diagnosis change your life for the better. Best wishes.

Too complex for me! Especially with three kids a job a husband pets and god knows what else. I do believe in his theory, though, and I'm certain it works. Maybe when my last baby goes to college I'll give it a try.

Wish I'd read this book before moving to Seattle, one of the darkest cities in North America, and living there for 17 years! Each year when the rains started and lasted for months and months, I'd typically gain 15-25 pounds. If the sun came out long enough in the summer, I'd sometimes lose most of my winter weight. When the sun was out, diet was easy. When the sun was not shining, I could not stop eating. I arrived in Seattle weighing a petite 103 pounds and wearing a size 5 and left Seattle barely able to sqeeze into a size 14-16.

Now I've moved to a sunny state and have quite a few pounds to lose. The high-carb, low-fat diets left me hungry all the time. The low-carb diets left me feeling depressed. The carbohydrate addicts diet was too restrictive, no carbs except at one meal per day. On the Circadian diet, I don't feel an overwhelming urge to eat all the time. In fact, last night, after a very small dinner, I felt more full than I usually do after a very large meal. The diet is palatable, too. While protein is emphasized during the day, a little bit of carbohydrate is allowed, and it makes the meals a lot more appetizing. So, I can have a few chunks of pineapple with my cup of cottage cheese when I'm in a hurry and have to prepare a quickie lunch. Or I can have a piece of high fiber bread with my omlette at breakfast. And I can have some protein with my carbs at dinner. Eating out is easy. After failing at high-carb, low-carb, Weight Watchers, Diet Center, et cetera, I finally have a satisfying way to eat and am losing weight. In fact, I easily lost three pounds my first week on the diet. I learned a lot of useful information from other diet books but could not stick to the diets. After reading The Circadian Prescription, I find losing weight is pretty easy! With the other suggestions in the book, I overall feel much better than I have in years!

This guy makes a lot of sense. check it out.

I had dimly begun to suspect the reasoning myself - advertising bombards us with "Carbohydrates Are For Energy", but they always seem to put me to sleep during the day when I need to think clearly. Peeking inside, Dr. Baker says effectively 'duh you idiot that's right save the carbos for dinner'. Liking this reinforcement of personal intuition, I immediately bought the book !

"Protein-in-day, carbs-at-night" is of course not patentable, but it seems to work, and the details are worth $1.00, plus which it is fairly information-dense, not one of those padded tomes.

This book is a literally a lifesaver! For years I have struggled to stay awake, alert and function with ADD, Candida and other health problems....the diet that is recommeneded allows me to feel alert when I need to be alert and relaxed when necessary by eating differently at different times of the day,and not be famished and weak with hunger in-between. This concept is radically different from anything else that I've ever read..but it works! I've always assumed that somehow each individual was so unique that we needed different diets ....this is a diet that seems to work for everybody, regardless or age, sex, health or lack of it...The breakfast shake in particular is a gem..and can even be used for lunch if needed..it gives me lots of energy and carries me to lunch without the usual mid-morning hunger that usually plagues me.
I have even introduced a friend to the concept and she was blown away too. Thank you Dr. MacDonald, from the bottom of my heart.

This cookbook is the BEST for anyone wanting to eat healthy and still have good tasting food. I have purchased so many healthy cookbooks and made so many bla meals out of them, but this one is an exception. The recipes are for the most part relatively simple and the food is exceptional. There are so many recipes, so I have not made them all, but the success rate has been extremely high for healthy. This is a lowfat and low sugar cookbook, but good food. The Chilled English Pea and Mint Soup, Peach Ricotta tarts, baked falafel and Carrot Cardomom Souffles in Onion Cups are some of my favorates!

I own about 120 cookbooks and I peruse several cookbooks a week at libraries and bookstores. This cookbook is outstanding and ORIGINAL!!! Chef Neff goes far beyond routine, low-fat techniques. Every recipe has both complete nutritional information and a beautiful photograph demonstrating how to present the dish to its best advantage.

Chef Neff is truly a master of his craft.

I love this book so much that I don't know where to start.

To put this review into perspective for you, it is written by an amateur cook that has been seriously studying cooking on her own for 25 years. My favorite cookbook is "The Professional Chef", this book ties for second place with "Healthy Techniques by the CIA".

Anyone can make a dish taste better by adding cream, butter, eggs or sugar. But when someone can take most of things away and still come up with food that you want to eat, all I can say is WOW. If I could nominate this man for sainthood I would.

First, I love that the chef gives you nutritional information on every recipe. If you are a numbers geek like me, you just need to know the calories, fat, saturated fat, etc. in each recipe.

Second, anyone that can come up with a Caesar salad dressing with 25 calories in 2 tablespoons, and make it take good, is a genius in my book.

There has not been a single recipe from this book that wasn't at least good. And given the numbers (nutritional information) that is really saying something. If you want to really be blown away there is a Chilled Chocolate Souffle with a Berry Consomme (230 calories) that is mind blowing.

On the down side, some of the recipes in this book are a little labor intensive. If you don't get pleasure from cooking this might not be the book for you. However, if you relax by cooking and love to learn new techniques I highly recommend this book. I would have given it more than 5 stars if that were an option. This book is definitely at least an 11 on a 10 scale.

I should first preface this by saying I love food. I love reading about it, cooking it at home, eating it in restaurants, etc. However, I've recognized that since I have graduated from college and now have a more sedentary lifestyle that I can no longer eat the rich foods and large portion sizes that I used to. Thus, I have started looking to "Cooking Light" and other healthy cooking resources to help guide my menus. My biggest frustration with most healthy cookbooks is that the dishes lack flavor and feel like your standard Betty Crocker fare, rather than something you would expect to see in a nice restaurant. This book is exactly the opposite. What I love about it is that in opening it up almost every recipe appealled to me, and yet I was shocked by how healthful it all could be! It's great if you want to make something restaurant quality at home but don't want all the extra fat and calories. Everything I have made so far has been very tasty and of a quality that I would present to dinner guests. There is also a good variety so you can get a lot of interesting meals out of this book. The only downside for me is the portion sizes on the salad dressings and condiments. Many of these sound absolutely delicious and would be amazing to use, but they make 2 or so cups of dressing that only lasts for 2 to 3 days in the fridge. Unfortunately, some of the recipes do not half well so they aren't the smartest option for a single woman like me who doesn't want food to go bad. I do, however, like that he indicates which items freeze well since there are a lot of delicious sauces I plan to make and then freeze in an ice cube tray to use for later. Overall this is a great book. I checked it out from the library thinking I would only like 1 or 2 recipes and now am planning to buy it for myself.

Chef/author Cary Neff wasn't born to the cooking class; he was a Chicago kid raised to love football who developed a love of food and made a name for himself with unique, bold recipes. Conscious Cuisine reflects his move from rich cooking to healthier cooking - still packed with his signature flavors. Blending Thai, Mediterranean and other influences, Conscious Cuisine promotes not just healthy recipes, but a lifestyle which embraces the bold flavor over the fat content. The goal is for all busy cooks to understand the conscious choices in shopping and cooking habits: chapters reflect this philosophy through shopping tips as well as recipes.

My daughter was diagnosed in 1997 at 1 month of age. Fortunately for our family we had the best specialist to help diagnose and treat her condition almost from day 1 of her life. And her doctor is none other than Dr. Orenstein himself (or just Dr. O to us). I can speak from personal knowledge that he is without a doubt the most informative doctor I have ever been around. He truly cares about the children in his care and he takes a proactive role in their health and well-being. His book is considered the CF bible by those in the know in the Pediatric Pulmonary field. As you read this picture a man with a bow tie and sandals explaining this to you. It is very easy to read and understand which when it comes to this disease is very important. I am happy to say that my daughter is almost 12 and thanks to Dr. O and his staff is in excellent health. If you know someone with this disease get them this book or better yet get it for yourself as well. Knowledge and understanding of the disease can really help.

This book accurately describes the disease cystic fibrosis (CF) and offers guidance in self-management on day to day problems. As a mother of a son who has CF, I highly recommend this book to any family dealing with CF.

I eagerly await the 3rd edition of this book. As a fully involved CF parent, my 8y/o daughter's care has benefited from my increased knowledge. I can form theories and question her caregivers from a more informed perspective and that is a win-win situation. If you have a child with CF, you should have this book. I call it the CF Bible.(Although encyclopedia would be a more accurate description.) I feel this book should be given to the parents of all newly diagnosed children.

I really enjoyed this book. Anyone who needs to learn anything about Cystic Fibrosis should definitely buy this. It covers everything! I read the whole thing in 4 days and I understand so much more now.

Im a teenager and was diagnosed with CF when I was born in 1989.
It was recently that I wanted to do some more reading on my disease. I looked through some books and was shocked by what I was reading. As many of you know, the out-of-date books on CF can have some very frightening information, like death and more infections, and etc. It was I discovered this book that I was so much more relaxed about my condition. This book is up-to-date and tells the real facts about this disease. After reading this, my disease doesn't scare me anymore.
If you are a teen, like me, I suggest you read thid.
If you know anybody with CF, you should read this book or have them read this. Don't let them read those early books on CF with the grim facts...have them read this with the true and helpful facts.

I liked this book so much I bought one for everyone in my family. I am only 21 years old, but I'm so glad I found this book now so that I won't have to deal with a lifetime of diets and not accepting myself. This book reveals the b.s. associated with the diet industry, and teaches you both to love yourself and to treat your body the right way for YOU. The authors really seem to know what the struggle is like and the best way to handle it--like what it feels in the exact moment you want to binge eat and how to accept yourself, and then change the situation. It consists of short chapters, and sometimes guide charts, which makes it easy to go right back to the information you need at a particular moment. I definitely recommend this book for anyone and everyone, especially teenagers!

This book is the best approach to learning WHY you feel the way you do about dieting, body image and food and to turning around the negative feelings to help you become healthy again. The individual lessons can be done in any order once you've read it through - very helpful if you have a particular issue come up. I've used it over and over again to help me on my journey away from compulsive and binge eating. Judith and Ellen encourage taking small steps, one thing at a time and focusing on health and self-care - a completely different viewpoint than I've ever used and it has changed my life. I'm relaxed around food, wear clothes that fit me NOW and have opened new areas in my life because I'm not obsessing about food, points, weights, portions, etc. I've rediscovered the joy of movement for how good it feels instead of only working for results - and so I move more often than I ever have.
I now know I am a diet survivor, and this is the the book that started the change in my life.....I highly recommend it.

I am a text book case of the yo-yo dieter that Judith & Ellen describe in their book. For a few years in a row I would gear-up, diet, lose about 10 pounds, get antsy after about 3-4 months, binge, then gain back the 10 and then some.

I had the opportunity to attend a presentation the authors gave about the book at a local book store. I was intrigued by the idea that you could avoid having to restrict yourself , track points, calories etc., and simply get in-tune with your own physical comfort as it relates to food and eating.

I made some subtle modifications to the way I eat. I never feel stuffed anymore after a meal, and literally felt light enough to start an exercise regimen which resulted in further weight loss. (The down side is that I've
had to replace much of my wardrobe - from size 12 to around jr. size 9)

This book turns the whole idea of dieting on its head. I hope Oprah sniffs it out so she can share it with the world.

Read it!

Andra Kossy
Skokie, Illinois

This book is a wonderful guide for people who are trying to learn to trust their bodies again. The journey towards becoming an attuned or intuitive eater can be hard, especially for anyone battling back from an eating disorder. This book gives you easy lessons, in short, easy to digest chapters. Its also a small book... perfect for slipping into a purse or backpack. That may seem like a silly comment, but I love it because it means I can take the book with me anywhere, for when I need some extra support.

American women and girls (and, increasingly, men and boys) are bombarded with messages about ideal bodies and acceptable weights, "good" and "bad" foods and the health risks of "obesity." Toss in the wealth of other stresses related to contemporary life and a recipe for disordered eating is born.

The disordered eating often takes the form of socially sanctioned and even professionally encouraged dieting and weight-loss behaviors. At the turn of the millennium about 116 million Americans (55% of the adult population) were dieting, supporting a $50 billion weight loss industry.

The result -- a lot of people "walking around feeling that something is terribly wrong with their bodies and themselves," as Matz and Frankel write. "Dieters of all sizes feel their body is unacceptable because it fails to meet the societal view of perfection....The truth is we live in a shame-based culture that says that if your body differs from the coveted thin physique, something is intrinsically wrong with you and in need of fixing."

Matz and Frankel document the damage dieting and other weight-loss focused attitudes and behaviors can do to physical and emotional health, including ways they contribute to compulsive eating. They offer strategies to identify ways in which uncomfortable feelings are channeled into "bad body" (or "fat body") thoughts and sensations, for which dieting or other forms of restrictive eating or weight-loss behavior are grasped at as possible solutions. And they point out that grasping at weight loss as a solution is no more a healthy (or potentially successful) strategy for truly fat women (or men) than it is for those who merely think they're fat, or who are just a few pounds over the societal ideal.

Dieting (restricting what one eats) is often viewed as a solution to compulsive eating (as well as to "obesity") -- but instead is actually a significant CAUSE of compulsive eating. In fact, dieting and other weight-loss related behaviors reinforce bodily dissociation, as individuals override their natural sensations of hunger and satiety in attempts to lose or "manage" weight. Ironically, dieting also tends to make people fatter, due to lowered metabolism and the tendency of many people to regain more weight than they lost as their bodies compensate (and protect) for the self-induced famines.

Is there any other industry in which a failure rate of almost 100% (almost all people who lose weight through dieting will regain it) is blamed on the CONSUMER rather than the product? But the truth, as Matz and Frankel point out, is that people don't fail at dieting....their diets fail THEM.

I love this book. I would not call myself a Christian, but that doesn't mean I don't get so much out of this wonderful book. Pray and connect with God - this helps me to start the day without food on the brain; with love and empowerment on my mind instead.

I liked this book. Has a prayer for everyday. Helps you on the journey of your "diet"

This is an uplifting read. I read it each morning and try to think of what I have read throughout the day. I am glad guilt was left out.
I did not give 5 stars because the spacing on the prayers is distracting.

I bought this for myself. I only have 10 lbs to lose, but I figure I need all the help I can get. This is an awesome book. It has a lesson and a prayer for 100 days. I use it in my morning devotions (while I am eating breakfast...haha) I have since bought a copy for all 4 ladies in my Bible Study to go along with Faithfully Fit (which I bought for all of them also). Even if you are not on a diet it gives you a great way to look at 'God's food' and our consumption of it. Buy it! You'll love it!

I have owned this book for a few years now, pull it out on occasion to use as a daily read. I recently gave a copy to my step-daughter, and she loves it too.

I lost 20 lbs after reading Arnots books. He offers safe and effective advice for folks who want to live longer and healthier lives.

Dr. Bob's "Guide to Turning Back the Clock" is 100 percent accurate and a good motivational tool for both men and women. I had no idea that enriched flour ... is so bad for your body. He has some very good ideas on how to eat and "fuel" your body. I especially liked the sections on roller blading and cross country skiing. This is the "one" diet/fitness book to have at your side. Cousin Arnold is right: "Be the best you've ever been. Now is the time and this is the book!"

Very informative book. It contains a lot of useful information. I became bored with many parts of the book especially when Dr. Arnot went into long discussions on topics like which sports equipment to purchase. Overall the book contained very practical information. I found the diet information extremely useful, but a little hard to actually implement. For a short time after reading the book, I actually did follow Dr. Arnot's eating advice and felt better than I have in a long time.

Sensible and practical. No quick fixes, but collects a bunch of good tips into one place.

great book, very informative, talks about not only diet, but also the importance of exercise and mixing it up. Not just cardio but muscle building/strengthening as well. No BS in his book, everything makes sense. Oh yeah, Arnie recommends it.