Dieting Books

GREEN is the Cure: Everything You Wanted to Know About 504 Plans, IEPs, Learning Disabilities and What the Hell is in the Food

This book is a godsend. It's a quick read and easy to understand. I made the changes she suggested in her book regarding diet. Also, I purchased the green food supplement. Well, my daughter no longer has to take medication for bipolar disorder. It's amazing what a little green can do!

I picked this book up on a "whim" one night figuring that it would be just like all the other "weight loss" books out there. How wrong I was! This book is great for anyone with weight issues. It's primarily written for people who want to lose weight; however, the information in it should be "must" reading for anyone interested in nutrition. I read the book cover-to-cover in a weekend and have gone back and re-read many sections of it.

Great Book!

It was amazing to learn that something as common as eating popcorn or drinking coffee might set off a chain of events in your digestive system that could result in yeast infections, chronic illnesses or maybe even cancers. In "Gut Feeling," Nutritionist Gary Richer helps you recognize the symptoms of ileocecal valve malfunction, and gives you simple, practical ways to fix the problem, and regain your health. Massage, drinking enough water or some herbal supplements might be all that stands between you and feeling on top of the world. This must-read book combines practical advice, great illustrations and even a two-week healing diet.

This book is a great reference; totally useful information in a down to earth manner. I wish I would have been brought up on hemp, and I hope the political problems with hemp can be overcome so our children may benefit from growing and using hemp locally. It's obviously written in England, but easily converts to our measurements. There's so much helpful information, I am going to buy several of them for wedding and graduation presents for my young friends just starting out on their own.

finaly some one told me about this book to have the knowledge i need it is excellent .

This book was real informative. I learned a lot about lowering my cholesterol

An excellent up to date book. Nicely detailed book that's easy to understand but doesn't speak to you like you're a child.
It goes through the four phases of a migraine. It's exactly what happens to me except for the aura.

con: recipes contain possible trigger foods, such as blue cheese.

I've purchased a lot of books on migraines and this is my favorite. I feel I can share this book with family members so they can better understand what I go through.

This unique book, on the art and science of healing, emphasizes the need for the holistic/vitalistic model for health and happiness. Just as art is created, so too are health and happiness. It is crafted as an easy to read blueprint on this life-changing subject. The entire premise for the book is that there is entirely too much preventable pain, suffering, stress and illness. It is written in the form of "proactive poetry," or easily understood passages. ~Robert Bedea aka "Dr. Bob"

I received this book as a Christmas gift from my in-laws. I was very excited about it! I have a taste for sweets, yet I try to eat healthy. Now, with a toddler in the house, I am becoming more aware of family illnesses that can be hereditary. So, my interest in eating healthy has become more serious, as I try to raise my son to eat better than my husband and I did growing up.

This book is quite large. It stands about 15 inches tall, and has 512 pages filled with advice on food allergies, diabetes, arthritis, cancer prevention and heart disease. The information is easy to read and understand. It helps explain what you need to do to help increase your health with these illnesses. With diabetes, heart disease and arthritis in my family, I find the information extremely useful. With lactose intolerance in my husband's family, I find the information invaluable. In raising my son, I do not restrict his intake of a specific food item, but I am using the information from our family history and trying not to give him an excess of food items that can ultimately make him ill.

The book contains over 300 recipes. With each recipe comes a guide, which indicates whether that particular recipe is gluten-free, wheat-free, corn-free, dairy-free, nut-free, shellfish-free, egg-free, yeast-free or Soya-free. Also, with each recipe, is a breakdown of the nutritional content: calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, fiber and sodium. This information is invaluable! How many times have you found a recipe and did not really understand that it actually did have a high fat content! With this book, you do not have to wonder, as the information is all there!

"Healing Foods" is also loaded with photographs. Not only do you get gorgeous photos of the end result of the recipes, but there are also preparation photos. I find this very useful when you have never heard of a dish before, and have trouble picturing it in my mind!

The index is fabulous too. Not only does it contain a standard index, but also an index of recipes for special diets: low-cholesterol, low salt, and more! There is also an information section, where you can find additional information about a particular health problem like diabetes!

There are many delicious recipes in this book: Spring Vegetable
Omelet, Beef Tagine With Sweet Potatoes, Potato and Garlic Soup,
Portuguese Rice Pudding and Rice & Beans With Avocado Salsa! All of these were a huge success in my home!

I would highly recommend this book for anyone with the above health problems, or for anyone who is interested in eating healthier. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book!

I came across this book at my library and checked it out on a whim. After wearing out my renewals and having to bring the book back I hopped on Amazon and ordered it. This one I need to own!

If you are trying to incorporate healthier foods into your diet or just bone up on what's good for what than this is a great book. Its layout is very friendly. The author breaks her chapters down into the areas you keep your food; ie "The Tea Tin", "The Honey Jar", "The Cookie Jar", "The Fruit Basket", "The Breadbox", "The Vegetable Bin" and so on. (Like the title suggests.)
Each chapter gives basic buying and storing info, pertinent health info, a highlighted section of "Best For Helping You: . . ." that lists its health benefits such as "Prevent heart disease", and "Strengthen bone" etc.

The recipes that I've tried are interesting, easy and tasty. (I love the barley bread!) They aren't complicated and you don't need to go to the ends of the earth to find some odd rare thing that the recipe can't be made without.

I love veggies but have a tendency to get bored with them and need reminders of yummy combinations or spices that I've forgotten about. This book pulls me out of that tunnel vision that there's one way to make something and when I'm bored with that then I just don't eat that something anymore for a while.

The recipes also give a per serving breakdown on calories, carbs, fat, saturated fat, dietary fiber, cholesterol and sodium. Handy info that.

I would highly recommend this book to a wide variety of people. If you're a beginner on the "eating healthier" path then this book's Basics will be very helpful without lecturing you or making you feel stupid for not knowing this already.

If you do know a lot of this nutrition stuff already, I'd bet you'd still like this book for how it compartmentalizes everything into easy-to-referece bits. You would certainly want your less nutritionally-advanced friends to have a copy for themselves because you love them and want them to live longer, healthier lives.