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Conscious Eating

Gabriel Cousens

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Total reviews: 32 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Often Recommended 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Conscious Eating was required reading for me when I was studying for my Bachelors Degree in Holistic Nutrition. Up until that time I had never heard of the book or the author. How grateful I am in retrospect that this was a book I studied. The approach taken is varied and diverse. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on Enzymes and the importance of maintaining a proper pH. The information in these chapters has influenced several nutritional supplement products that I have had the privilege to formulate (Enzymedica). Of special interest to me was the research the author did through his clinic on vegetarian and non vegetarian diets and the surprising results he discovered when measuring the individuals pH. It was not what I expected and so it has given me greater insight on the topic.

I always recommend this book to individuals looking for an well balanced approach to overall health.

If you like this book, you might also enjoy:
Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes: A Simple Guide to Using Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis

Editorial Review:

Conscious Eating has been referred to as the "Bible of Vegetarians," for both beginners and advanced students of health. This classic work in the field of live-food nutrition is an inspirational journey and a manual for life. Included is new information on enzymes, vegetarian nutrition for pregnancy, and an innovative international 14-day menu of gourmet, Kosher, vegetarian, live-food cuisine, plus 150 recipes.

Mastering Leptin: The Key to Energetic Vitality, Youthful Hormonal Balance, Optimum Body Weight, and Disease Prevention

Byron J. Richards

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Total reviews: 50 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Mastering Leptin explains how we can conquer the obesity epidemic in America. Finally the mysteries of the hormone leptin have been unlocked, opening the door for permanent weight loss, resolution of low thyroid symptoms, and significantly improved energy. Learn why diets do not work and how weight loss can be easy, safe, and long-lasting. This is a book way ahead of its time, explaining over 700 of the most crucial and recent leptin-related scientific studies.

Leptin is a powerful hormone produced in fat cells, in control of ALL other hormones in the body. It is essential for survival, guiding the proper response to starvation. Problems with leptin enforce "starvation metabolism" on an individual, even when there is plenty of food around. Eating in harmony with leptin is essential for healthy metabolism, especially as a person grows older and begins to struggle with weight around the midsection.

Key signs of a leptin problem include: uncontrollable sugar and food cravings, late night eating, stress eating, weight gain around the middle, unable to reach a goal weight, yo-yo dieting, low thyroid symptoms. Left unhandled these problems cause obesity, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Mastering Leptin allows people to put an end to the confusion of countless ways to eat, maintain a healthy body weight without dieting, increase energy and metabolism, and unlock the mysteries of optimum health – read Mastering Leptin today!

Blood Type B Food, Beverage and Supplemental Lists (Food, Beverage and Supplement)

Peter J. D'Adamo

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

For Secretors Only 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This little booklet is wonderful in that it has all the foods listed, but if you're a nonsecretor, you have to go on the website and look up all the foods to see which ones are different from the secretor values. Then you have to hand-edit your copy. Examples: For a secretor, blueberries are neutral, but for a non, they're highly beneficial. For a secretor, pumpkin is an avoid, but for a non, it's neutral (thank goodness!). That was one star off.
It lost another star for the price because of the print quality, which is not what it could be, some of the pages being blurred and somewhat difficult to read. (And yes, I checked my eyeglasses and ancient eyeballs before making this statement.)

Editorial Review:

Different blood types mean different body chemistry. Carry this guide with you to the grocery store, restaurants, even on vacation to avoid putting on those extra pounds, or getting sick from eating the wrong thing. You'll never have to be without Dr. D'Adamo's reassuring guidance again. Inside you will find complete listings of what's right for Type B in the following categories:

* meats, poultry, and seafood * oils and fats * dairy and eggs * nuts, seeds, beans, and legumes * breads, grains, and pastas * fruits, vegetables, and juices * spices and condiments * herbal teas and other beverages * special supplements * drug interactions * resources and support

Refer to this book while shopping, dining, or cooking-and soon, you will be on your way to developing a prescription plan that's right for your type.

The Longevity Diet: Discover Calorie Restriction--the Only Proven Way to Slow the Aging Process and Maintain Peak Vitality

Brian M. Delaney, Lisa Walford

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great into to calorie restriction and its benefits 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book about calorie restriction and how to go about trying it. The authors are Brian Delaney, President of the Calorie Restriction Society, and Lisa Walford, the daughter or Dr Roy Walford who was one of the early proponents of calorie restriction for people. They are both well connected to the community that is trying calorie restriction, and well grounded in the science behind it.

From their experience, improvements in health and slower aging come from any regimen that includes reduced calories over what is considered a normal level. So you can eat some high-glycemic food such as rice or potatoes, or eat a really healthy diet where all of your carbohydrates come from vegetables and fruit. You can eat one meal a day, or graze throughout the day. All of the apparent benefits will result as long as you eat enough less than normal.

There are a number of ways to track progress: watch your weight and when it gets to a BMI of 15-16 then eat enough to keep it there; track total calories relative to normal for your body height/frame; or track health markers such as fasting blood sugar, liver function, lipids (e.g. cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides), blood pressure, and immune system function.

They emphasize repeatedly that you should talk to your doctor or health professional before going on this regimen, and that it is not for everyone. If you are pregnant or want to get pregnant or have certain medical conditions you should definitely NOT use this diet. If you have a lot of weight to lose to get to a low BMI, or if you are over 60, you should definitely take it slow and not make too radical a change.

They make a number of key points:

* Because you are eating a reduced-calorie diet, you have to make sure that you get enough nutrients: protein, fat, calories, essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals.
* This is why most practitioners eat all of their carbohydrates in the form of vegetables and fruit, because they have very high nutrition value per calorie. When you eat a lot of calories from starch (bread, potatoes, white rice, other starches) it is very hard to reduce your calorie intake enough and still get enough nutrition.
* If you adopt this regimen, you have to find a way to do it that works for you and lets you enjoy life. Don't stress out about it
* Exercise and managing stress are important for everyone

I really liked their idea of "energy density" and "nutrition density" for food. For example, cheese has high energy density; vegetables have high nutrition density. To feel fuller and to get enough nutrition, you want a lot of your calories to come from high-nutrition, low-energy-density foods. This is a good point for everyone, not just when you are on a calorie restriction diet.

I had a couple of issues with their advice:

* they do not recommend using omega-3 supplements, suggesting that you will get enough omega-3 from a high-nutrient diet. I don't think this is the case, to get enough omega-3 for optimal brain function you almost have to supplement, or eat very expensive grass-fed meat, grass-fed dairy, etc, or eat very large amounts of fish.
* they mention fasting as an alternative for reducing total calories, that this is easier for some people. However, this book was written before research came out that suggests fasting is not healthy on a regular basis.
* they are convinced that calorie restriction will increase maximum human lifetimes, but I don't think that we know or can say at this point. (It is clear that calorie restriction with good nutrition does increase your life expectancy, but not that you should expect to live past 100 on this regimen.)

There is some research that suggests that the important thing is not the reduced calories, but the hormones that are released when you are hungry. So I think I'm going to try skipping lunch and snacks, having a normal breakfast and dinner, and eating enough at those meals to feel full. I'll continue to track my weight and ongoing blood sugar levels, and see what the effect is

Fascinating stuff, and I recommend the book.

Editorial Review:

At last, here's a book that synthesizes the increasingly popular CR (Calorie Restriction) diet for the layperson. CR is not a diet primarily about weight loss, although readers will lose weight. CR is about eating highly nutritious foods to extend your healthy years. Here's the concept: eat fewer calories and choose foods more carefully. This will reallocate how your metabolism uses its resources to convert food into energy; in other words, what goes in will be used more efficiently. You will feel better and function better—and the big bonus: the CR diet slows aging. CR lengthens the periods of youth and middle age and substantially reduces the risk of virtually all the diseases of aging. Brian Delaney and Lisa Walford, two longtime CR practitioners, will take you on a handheld stroll through the process, including an introduction to CR, how to do it, some of the key issues in the current dialogue, and the skinny on superfoods.

Sugar Busters! Quick & Easy Cookbook

H. Leighton Steward, Morrison Md Bethea, Sam Md Andrews, Luis Md Balart

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Which other diet allows you to drink a glass of red wine in the evening? The SUGAR BUSTERS! lifestyle is revolutionizing the way America eats, offering a safe, scientifically sound program for improving health and losing weight.

Now the #1 New York Times bestselling team who forever changed the face of dieting has created the SUGAR BUSTERS! Quick & Easy Cookbook, a delicious new collection of more than 150 simple-to-make recipes and menu ideas. With this wonderful cookbook, the SUGAR BUSTERS! eating program can easily become part of your daily routine. Forget counting calories, weighing your food, and trying to figure out those confusing charts and graphs. The SUGAR BUSTERS! Quick & Easy Cookbook makes preparing tasty, low-sugar or sugar-free fare a snap.

Inside you'll discover

- APPETIZERS and HORS D'OEUVRES
- SOUPS and SALADS
- MAIN COURSES
- VEGETABLES
- SAUCES and DRESSINGS
- DESSERTS
- COMPREHENSIVE PANTRY SECTION

Whether you're hosting an elaborate holiday bash or a spur-of-the-moment intimate evening for two, or you just need a quick dinner for you and your family, the SUGAR BUSTERS! Quick & Easy Cookbook will help you create the perfect meal.

The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World--Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home

Daphne, M.D. Miller

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Pizza, pasta, hamburgers, sushi, tacos, and french fries . . . whether our ancestors were born in Madrid, Malaysia, or Mexico, chances are our daily food choices come from all around the globe. Unfortunately, we have taken some of the worst aspects of our varied ancestral menus to turn healthy cuisine into not-so-healthy junk food. Where did we go wrong?

Why is it that non-Western immigrants are so much more susceptible to diabetes and other diet-related chronic diseases than white Americans? How is it possible that relatively poor native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the chronic diseases that plague the United States? What is the secret behind the extremely low rate of clinical depression in Iceland—a country where dreary weather is the norm? The Jungle Effect has the life-changing answers to these important questions, and many more.

Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide quest to find diets that are both delicious and healthy. Written in a style reminiscent of Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, this book is filled with inspiring stories from Dr. Miller's patients, quirky travel adventures, interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic) indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you for a lifetime.

Whether it's the heart-healthy Cretan diet, with its reliance on olive oil and fresh vegetables; the antidepression Icelandic diet and its extremely high levels of Omega 3s; the age-defying Okinawa diet and its emphasis on vegetables and fish; or the other diets explored herein, everyone who reads this book will come away with the secrets of a longer, healthier life and the recipes necessary to put those secrets into effect.

Eat Out, Eat Right: The Guide to Healthier Restaurant Eating

Hope S. Warshaw

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Must have for anyone who eats out 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This is a handy book for anyone who eats out. My favorite part is the suggested meals to order for each type of restaurant (Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Pizza, etc.). The author's tips are practical and straightforward. I like that she makes it possible to eat well when eating out by choosing the right foods, instead of discouraging eating out altogether.

My husband loves Mexican food and so that chapter was especially helpful to me in finding healthier foods to order. It was also a good reminder to avoid the chips!

I like the Healthy Eating Guidelines at the beginning of the book that can be put into use at home as well as eating out. She includes tips for choosing healthy options for kids as well. With the increase of children eating out on a regular basis, this section is especially helpful. It's a great book full of useful information that I highly recommend to anyone!

Editorial Review:

The realistic, informative guidelines in Eat Out, Eat Right enable diners to make healthy menu choices from a wide variety of foods and cuisines, including Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Thai, fast food, and many others. This new edition reflects the latest trends in dining out, with expanded information on “fast casual” restaurants like Applebee’s and Chili’s; Subway and other sandwich shops; and the myriad of coffee and juice drinks now available. Sample menus, nutritional facts and figures, and diabetic exchanges provide additional information.

Eat Great Lose Weight Cass

Suzanne Somers

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Total reviews: 287 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

With no dieting, sacrifice, or self-denial, Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight encourages you to eat all the foods you love while staying thin forever, to enhance body image and self-image. The program is based on ten years of research and interviews with nutritionists.  It teaches you how to eat foods in special combinations in order to restructure your metabolism. Divided into two parts, Level 1 is for people who want to lose weight and Level 2 is for maintaining the reduced weight.

Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight is a complete written explanation of what Somersizing is and how the program works.  With more than 100 Somersizing recipes, from soups to main courses to desserts, it offers Suzanne's invaluable advice regarding Somersizing, including how to order dinner at a restaurant, how the program can work on a vegetarian diet, which ethnic foods can be Somersize friendly, and why dark chocolate and wine can be acceptable to eat on the program. "Food is only one component of a happy, healthier life.  I firmly believe that you must master not only your physical health but also your emotional wellness," says Suzanne.  "In this book, I'll show you what works for me.  You'll learn how to be fit, not fanatic; how to make movement and fitness a pleasurable part of daily life; and how to make the most of every moment of every day, including your meals."

Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight will appeal to people who want to enjoy life, to lose weight without dieting and undue sacrifice. It's a real program from a real person who has done it herself and continues to do it every day.  "With Somersizing I can eat all the wonderful foods I love and still lose weight.  I don't have to give up flavor.  I don't settle for boring meals with no sauce.  I don't count calories or fat," says Suzanne.  "Somersizing is an easy and effective way to look and feel your best while enjoying life to the fullest.  You'll have more energy than ever before, you'll say good-bye to the bloating and gas that used to rountinely follow mealtimes; and you'll lose weight."  Respectful and mindful of what people really want, "Somersizing is not about being physically perfect or unrealistically thin.  It's about being the best you can be."

Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly

Dean Ornish

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The phenomenal New York Times bestseller -- now revised and updated for a new century.

Eat more, weigh less? How is this possible? Because as this groundbreaking work clearly shows, it's not just how much you eat, it's primarily what you eat.

Most diets rely on small portion sizes to reduce calories sufficiently. You feel hungry and deprived. Dr. Ornish's revolutionary program takes a new approach, one scientifically based on the type of food rather than the amount of food. Abundance rather than hunger and deprivation. So you can eat more frequently, eat a greater quantity of food-and still lose weight and keep it off. Simply. Safely. Easily. With 250 delicious low-fat recipes by some of the country's most celebrated chefs.

Dr. Ornish's program is a medically proven approach that can help you improve your health and well-being, not just lose weight. It's also about learning how to begin healing emotional pain, loneliness, and isolation in your life, providing nourishment not only for your body but also for your soul. His program has given millions of people new hope and new choices.

Sugar Busters! Shopper's Guide

H. Leighton Steward, Morrison Md Bethea, Sam Md Andrews, Luis Md Balart

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Total reviews: 31 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Inadequate Sugar Buster Guide 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a skinny, incomplete list that's very little help. Yes, it's inexpensive but I wouldn't bother.

SUGAR BUSTERS SHOPPERS GUIDE 1 out of 5 stars.
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I found this book to be a waste of money. I didn't learn anything from it that I had not already found in the Brennan's book.

Editorial Review:

Sugar Busters!--the groundbreaking # 1 New York Times bestseller--forever changed the way Americans eat, blowing the lid off the real culprit behind weight gain and offering a delicious new approach to diet and health. Now, with this revolutionary shopping guide, the Sugar Busters program can easily become part of your busy life. Forget measuring, weighing, and counting fat grams and calories. Throw those charts and graphs out the door! This handy book takes you aisle by aisle through the grocery store, pointing out exactly what you can and cannot eat, including:

- fruits and vegetables
- fish, meat, and poultry
- dairy
- breads and grains
- sweets
- brand-names and frozen foods
and more!

Just place the items in your shopping cart and be on your way to preparing the tasty, healthy meals that have made Sugar Busters! a phenomenal success.