Dieting Books

This tasty collection of italian recipes is really worth adding to your cookbooks at home! Every recipe has a photo of the finished dish with the recipe so you'll know what it should look like. Many of my favorite recipes from when I was a child were in this cookbook which brought back memories of wonderful family gatherings. There is a helpful section on the ingredients at the beginning of the book in case you are unfamiliar with any items. A wide variety of tasty recipes that will give your family & friends many wonderful meals! I highly recommend buying this cookbook! :)

This book is an amazing representation of what fine italian food is. The pictures make your mouth water. The recipes are incredibly easy, and the ingredients are those you would most likely find in your house or your local grocery store. AMAZING!!

This book is an amazing representation of what fine italian food is. The pictures make your mouth water. The recipes are incredibly easy, and the ingredients are those you would most likely find in your house or your local grocery store. AMAZING!!

This book was very helpful in explaining what was going on with my daughter's dairy allergy. Now I finally have some confirmation of what I have been observing and know what to do to help her.

The bit about any food, not just carbohydrates causing diabetic reactions was very interesting and I'd recommend reading it to anyone suffering diabetes.

Also, I've worked with the homeless mentally ill and wish the psychiatrists in the programs they are in would read this. These poor people are not responding to conventional medicine, and what these men wrote could be of invaluable help to them.

The book also talks about a cure for tardive diskinesia in two days using nutrients. More people should know about that.

It was the first to really explain vitamin C therapy and how it works. I was glad to see Linus Pauling redeemed. After reading it I looked it up online and found a wealth of information, including a charity trying to give free vitamin C to people with HIV in South Africa. I guess a lot of other people believe in vitamin C, also!

I almost put it down when I got to the part about using magnets to calm agitated people with mental illness, but was really glad I persevered, the rest of the book was well written and incredibly informative.

I have been researching the drug industry and psychiatry over the past year and have attended a Harvard Medical School seminar to see what is being taught concerning psychopharmacology. What I have learned is that for generations, orthomolecular physicians like Dr. Philpott have been curing mental illness by recognizing that brain malfunctions are caused by medical problems such as thyroid, kidney, and sleep disorder problems, an immune disorder cerebral allergy, metal toxicity, Candida infestation and enzyme and nutritional imbalances such as essential fatty acids deficiency (malnourishment). Biochemical testing can assist in determining underlying causes. Even Harvard's Dr. Stoll, who receives compensation from about ten different drug companies, recommends fish oil to provide essential Omega 3 fatty acids and vitamins as an effective treatment for depression.
According to Prescription for Nutritional Healing P. 448, A thyroid condition can cause fatigue, mood swings and depression, P. 153: An allergy is an inappropriate response by the body's immune system to a substance that is not normally harmful. P. 157: Cerebral allergies cause swelling of the lining of the brain. P. 154: Persons between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five are the most allergy-prone.
Entire food families can cause allergic reactions in susceptible people. Repeated headaches, or schizophrenic, violent, or aggressive reactions, can be an indicator. Foods such as corn, wheat, rice, dairy products, and chocolate, and certain food additives, are the most common offenders but chemicals such as petrochemicals or other substances, like mold can also cause serious problems. Other manifestations of food allergies are; acne, arthritis, asthma, chest and shoulder pains, colitis, depression, fatigue, food cravings, headaches, hemorrhoids, insomnia, intestinal problems, muscle disorders, obesity, sinus problems, ulcers, and unexplained dramatic weight changes. The list goes on and on. Allergies can also affect children diagnosed as Autistic or exhibiting ADHD.
To cure, orthomolecular physicians have patients stop eating what they are allergic to. These physicians remove toxic metals from the body, rid the body of Candida, and provide supplements as needed. The best book I have seen so far on this topic is this book, Brain Allergies. A proper diet is also wise to fuel the brain with essential nutrients and exercise provides oxygen to cells and assists in removing toxins via sweat glands.
Unfortunately, the drug industry has such an influence on psychiatrists that it is still common for them to recommend superficial physical testing (if any at all), ignore the results, and rather than determine the cause and fix the problem, they try to cover up symptoms with mega doses of drugs that cause damage and sometimes disability. One of many adverse effects from psychiatric medicine is the neurotransmitter brain damage imbalance known as Parkinsonism where a person can no longer walk or talk normally due to extreme slowness. According to Merck's web site, the disorder's pathophysiology is inhibition of dopaminergic system due to blockage of dopaminergic receptors by antipsychotic drugs. An excellent, very alarming book is Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs, which was written by a psychiatrist who stopped practicing psychiatry after seeing drug damage. According to this publication, drug trials are not unbiased, these drugs are no more effective than placebos, and they cause brain damage. A similar publication adds information concerning how to stop taking drugs, Your Drug May Be Your Problem.
If psychiatric drugs could cure, you would be able to take them and stop. Instead, drugs mask and/or change symptoms, they can be addictive, and they have serious side effects. Drugs are toximolecular. They are substances foreign to the body, in sub-lethal (and sometimes lethal) amounts. They should be used only as a last resort, emergency measure. Other treatments also cause permanent harm, such as electric shock that is well known in the industry for causing permanent memory loss. Harvard Medical School is now offering continuing education regarding using magnetic therapy. However the strength they are using is much higher than what Dr. Philpott used with success - so that will probably harm as well.
As a health consumer, you have to be your own best advocate.
The reason I am so concerned about this topic is that I know someone who was nearly disabled by antipsychotic drugs until Dr. Shaw with Great Plains Lab in Kansas (www.greatplainslaboratory.com) called with results from biochemical testing done. The lab tests showed this person is allergic to dairy and eggs, was toxic in aluminum, had a Candida problem and other imbalances. After the treatment plan outlined above, this person was able to get a job - cured!
I believe that all "mental" problems are caused by physical, medical problems. The fact the problems have not been discovered does not mean they do not exist. Treatments should not separate the mind from the body.
Just one person mentally distressed, disabled by drugs, and not able to work, will cost at least two million dollars over a lifetime, so this is an issue that impacts all of us financially as well as ethically.

As a Chinese herbal practitioner, I have recommended this book to several clients who have autistic children. In almost every case, there has been a marked improvement in the child's situation. The book details not only the science and theory behind Dr. Philpott's approach, but more importantly spends a lot of time discussing practical implementation. Conventional western medicine still tends to ignore the dramatic impact our diets can have on the mental/emotional aspect of our lives; BRAIN ALLERGIES makes a very significant contribution to the growing literature around the old and very true proverb: "we are what we eat." If you're dealing with a child with emotional and/or cognitive difficulties, PLEASE read this book!

A very useful book to have around. It is very informative and easy to follow. The author has taken the compex subject of food/nutrition and made it easy for the reader to understand, hence make better food choices.

It is a great book and I found it easy to read. It offers the reader very useful information, simple to follow, and the information it offers is easy to incorporate into everyday life.

Can I Feel Well If I Eat Well? Is an informative resource that is very easy reading, not to mention easy to understand. This author made it simple and spelled out exactly what combinations of foods, fruits and vegies are needed for a sustainable, better healthy life. Thank you.

Loved the book. Even though it was written by a medical doctor, a heart specialist, I thought it was easy to read and understand. I was already taking this supplement but this book gave me additional direction so far as how much to take. I have recommended it to several family members who may want to consider this supplement in addition to what they're already on in hopes of reducing the need for "pharmaceuticals" (under their doctor's supervision of course). This book gives overwhelming evidence for the effectiveness of this supplement. Coenzyme Q10 And The Heart

Coenzyme Q10 (often abbreviated as CoQ10) is essential for human life. CoQ10 catalyzes the formation and utilization of energy in every human cell, including cells of the heart and heart muscle. Fortunately, our bodies manufacture CoQ10. Unfortunately, some people do not manufacture enough CoQ10 to keep them healthy, especially as they grow older. Research has shown that deficiency of CoQ10 is the major cause of cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, and other heart diseases and these diseases can often be cured by CoQ10 supplementation. In fact, many heart transplant candidates have no longer needed a heart transplant after supplementation with CoQ10. Dr. Stephen Sinatra -- a board-certified cardiologist -- is a world-renowned expert on CoQ10 and its health benefits. I beg your to buy and read this book and heed Dr. Sinatra's information and advice. For more details on CoQ10 you may wish to also read Dr. Sinatra's book The Coenzyme Q10 Phenomenon.

this health guide is the best collective work that has been gathered by the eminent cardiologist who knows all the heart diseases conditions.furthermore he is treating with both alternative and conventional ways so he can tell the diffrents,wich he did. after the history of the coenzyme q10 he explaines how the role of the free radical molecules are forming in our body,and the role of diseases they produced,in this case heart problems. how the mechanism of heart diseases are formed (in short understandable way)and how coq10 is working in order to prevent\treat\and most of all the fast improving of this miracle new heart nutrient.how it work inside the cells of the body is explained so you will understand why it worked in every heart disease. how this nutrient works in gum diseases and in hypertension wich also related to heart attacks are also covered in this book. he also gives dosages of recommandations to every discussed ilnness on the guide,and a few amazing case histories are beyond description,but i know they are a true case histories because i am a orthomolecular-nutritionist and i treat heart diseases, and i know the author is correct. very recommanded!

This book is easy to read yet very, very informative. I bought it few years back and for some reason never read through the entire thing. I picked it up the other day and read it from front to back, it wasn't text book like at all.

For anyone who wants to eat healthier without following a fad diet, but doesn't know where to start - I highly recommend~!

This book is entertaining and very informative. One informed source says, "This book is an excellent reference guide." If you are a bobybuilder or a couch potato, this book is for you

This book explains all the new questions about eating healthy. All the information is helpful and for the most part, non-technical. There's even a chapter on how to eat right and loose weight. I'd recommend it to anyone.

I loved this book. It is very funny, and hard to put down. It reminded me a bit of Bridget Jones Diary. The ideas in the book about changing your life are well thought out can be applied to many areas besides just becoming more healthy. Her story is inspirational and definitely makes you feel as if she can do it so can you.

Funny, inspirational, and right on the money. AJ describes all of the things that go into losing weight. You don't have to be obese to want to lose a few kilos and her description of cravings and working out are something everyone can relate to. She breaks down losing weight into something that not only seems plausible but fun and energizing.

I laughed and laughed and then took her advice to the gym. Truly an inspiration.

'Confessions of a Reformed Dieter' isn't a book that only overweight women should consider reading. It is a book that anyone who has ever faced the excrutiating challenge of trying desperately to reach a personal goal, while fighting the self descructive part in us that holds us back, will find inspirational and touching. AJ Rochester documents her daily, even hourly, struggles to lose weight, and shed the demons of her childhood which are so inherently tied to her obsession with fat-filled, unhealthy food and over eating. Humorous, uplifting, and oh-so human, the real woman in the pages takes shape (a progressively thinner shape..) before our eyes as she takes charge of her life and her eating.
NOTE - Look up AJ on her website to see the AMAZING before and after pictures of her 8 size weighloss! Truly inspirational.

Good recipes from the source of many people's food in San Francisco. Goes to a good cause.

Fabulous recipes for a great cause. A mouth watering guide to the Bay Area's finest chef's and restaurants. The book contains short biographies on each contributing chef.

Although some of the recipes contain exotic ingredients that may be hard to get in some areas, many are relatively simple and incredibly delicious! Amazingly, they are also all low-fat. Plus, the book benefits a good cause. I've never gone wrong cooking something out of here--always raves from the guests!

THIS BOOK REALLY HELPS WITH KEEPING UP WITH THE FOOD I EAT AND THE CARBS.

This is a handy little book that will even fit in your purse to keep track daily. Keep it with you always because it also has a carb counter in the back. No excuses!

This is a slim, handy, journal that really helps make carb counting easy. Instead of recording what you eat on tiny scraps of paper you may lose easily or using complicated journals, this book simplifies the process.

The first page has space for you to record your goals including, current and desired weight, measurements, and current and desired exercise.

Then the book begins with Day 1 where you will find spaces to include the date, your weight and general comments. Each meal is listed in order of breakfast, lunch, dinner and then snacks.
Next to where you record what you ate there is a space to fill in the carbs.

At the end of each week there is a progress report where you can fill in your accomplishments and goals for the following week.

The journal covers 16 full weeks so its easy to look back and see the progress or mis-steps you have made. And the spiral bound journal lays flat, so it's easy to write in.

The back of the journal includes a list of common foods and their carb counts.

Though the journal is a bit large for smaller pocketbooks (8"tall by 4" wide), it will fit in a larger bag or a briefcase easily.

Another nice touch are the little hints and tips that appear on some of the pages, to help you make your low carbohydrate diet a success. Sample tip, " When you want a snack reach for tasty low-carb cheese. Wrap up some slices of your favorite kind and bring them along to the movies in place of popcorn."

The book is a super nice tool to help you track your progress!

Dr. Weiland has written a most informative and interesting book. It is well written, easily understood and packed with information on nutrition and its influence on our health. The Dakota Diet places a strong emphasis on disease prevention and fitness through a healthy diet and exercise. This is no "magic pill" diet. He recommends lifestyle changes and lays out a plan for the reader to achieve their health and fitness goals. Recipes are included which have been contributed by chefs from the Dakotas. Many include the use of game as well as whole grains and fresh produce. Game may not be easily obtained in some areas, but I have noticed the availability of ground bison in supermarkets in the northeast. The recipe from chef Jill Maguire for Buffalo Burgers produces a fantastic meal! There is information presented on a web site where the reader can order grass-fed buffalo meat.

It's reassuring to read a book like the one that Dr. Weiland wrote on several different levels. With health problems and obesity running rampant in society, and synthetic drugs and western medication only masking the symptoms temporarily, we need to start looking for the underlying problems in our weight gain and disease; that problem is our diet. Walking through the grocery store we see nothing but fake food and artificial boxes with ingredient lists with far too many things that most of can't even pronounce and none of us should be eating. The Dakota Diet presents us with foods we should be eating; foods that people used to eat and foods that kept them slim and healthy. We shouldn't need to be told to eat natural food, but apparently we do. We shouldn't have to call food "natural" vs. whatever our food has become, but we do have to. The Dakota Diet isn't a polite suggestion, it's how we SHOULD be eating anyway. Anyone that's shopped in a grocery store needs to read this book.

While The Dakota Diet may not include all the answers to weight-loss questions, the author does provide thought-provoking information that can be motivating to those of us who want to shed pounds. It's an easy read, full of suggestions that can, if readers choose to follow them, lead to a healthier lifestyle.

New, book in perfect condition. Gave as a gift to a diabetic relative. Was very much appreciated, quick arrival, dandy deal.

Start with ADA's "Complete Guide to Diabetes" and then add this one. This book gives practical solutions to every detailed question you might have about diabetes. This is the book you need when your Primary Care Physician is too busy to answer your questions.

My husband was recently diagnosed with Diabetes. This is a very complex disease with a lot of variables. My desire was to understand why this disease occurs, and to become as knowledgeable as possible so that I may be able help to my husband to deal with it in the best possible manner. This book was exceedingly helpful, not only with the information that it provided, but in a language that I was able to easily understand. Cudos to Dr. Nancy Touchette!