Book Review: Eat to Live
: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised EditionBook Authors: Joel Fuhrman Released Date: January 5, 2011 Number of pages: 400 Book Description: It includes updated scientific research supporting Dr. Fuhrman's revolutionary six-week plan and a brand new chapter highlighting Dr. Fuhrman's discovery of toxic hunger and the role of food addiction in weight issues. It explains how and why eating the wrong foods causes toxic hunger and the desire to over consume calories; whereas a diet of high micronutrient quality causes true hunger which decreases the sensations leading to food cravings and overeating behaviors. It instructs readers on how to leave behind the discomfort of toxic hunger, cravings, and addictions to unhealthy foods. This is a book that will let you live longer, reduce your need for medications, and improve your health dramatically. It is a book that will change the way you want to eat. |
My Take on Book: The Eat to Live
diet looks like a healthy way to lose a few pounds each month but doesn’t seem suitable for those who need to lose a lot of weight quickly. This diet focuses a lot on natural foods. The Eat to Live diet will require some self-motivation. You may lose a couple pounds each month on this diet. The Eat to Live
diet really stresses that you should avoid eating “fake” foods that are highly processed and full of synthetics. Many other diets suggest similar foods and they can actually help you lose weight over time. As well as being able to achieve weight loss, the Eat to Live diet apparently prevents and helps to treat various other common conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis and acne and these reports have been based, or so the book states, on over 1000 different scientific studies.According to the author and the information in the book, it is apparently possible to eat more food than you do now but still lose weight at the same time. The theory behind the diet plan is that you eat foods that are known to be high in nutrients and low in calories and by doing this, the book states that you can lose a large amount of weight in a relatively short time span. However, Fuhrman misses two vital points. No amount of dieting is going to result in permanent weight loss. That can only come from regular exercise combined with a sensible diet. And a sensible diet is one you can live with, not one that forces you to live without. Author says “If you give this diet your complete commitment, there is no question in my mind that it will work for you.”. Well, but isn’t that true of any diet? The point, of course, is missed again, or probably deliberately skipped — this just is not a diet to which you could ever give your complete commitment in the first place.
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