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Title: Eating Well For Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating by Andrew Weil ISBN: 0-06-095958-4 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (120 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Best Nutrition Book I've Read
Comment: Not being a doctor or biochemist, I don't feel competent to comment on whether Dr. Weil's theories and advice are accurate. However, I strongly recommend this book because it is packed with a tremendous amount of information. I have found that I am able to read most popular health, nutrition and fitness books I've picked up from cover to cover in just a couple of hours. Some are practically disposable (maybe literally so, considering the cheap paper used). Eating Well for Optimum Health, however, has taken me a great deal longer, which I think is testament to the sophistication and substances of its content, much the way it takes longer to read 50 pages of Proust than a 300 page who-dunnit. There's a lot one can learn here. And whether Dr. Weil's views are wrong or right, most come with thorough and convincing explanations -- the "whys" of human nutrition, as well as reports of study conclusions. I also found the correlations Dr. Weil draws between different world/ethnic cuisines with the types of illnesses experienced by those populations to be very interesting, if a bit speculative (which Dr. Weil generally acknowledges, to his credit). I doubt I would have found biology and chemistry quite so dreary if I had read something like this to put all the stuff I had to memorize into context. Stylistically, the writing is usually engaging. I am taking off a star, however, because of the recipes. They might be wonderful, but I think actual specific recipes should stay in recipe books, just as I would not care for a book on Beethoven to have a big chunk about how to tune a piano. They have different places, uses, and audiences. Still, recommended without reservation.
Rating: 3
Summary: Too much science, not enough practical advice
Comment: I bought this book because I'd heard/seen Dr. Weil on TV and liked what he had to say. I agree with his basic premises, and believe that he gives sound advice. The book reinforced this opinion, but I did not particularly enjoy it or find it helpful in a practical way. There is far too much technical, detailed, BORING stuff about metabolism and nutrients. Those parts need to be streamlined. Also, the glycemic index table was very limited. I wanted a longer list of "good" carbs. The book is not really geared to the masses who will buy it simply because it's a well-marketed "diet" book on a bestseller list. (FYI -if you are thinking this is a book about losing weight, think again. It's simply good advice on how to eat healthily.)
I am a vegetarian, and Dr. Weil reinforces my conviction to stay that way. His mantra: "eat more fruits and vegetables." I enjoyed reading his daughter's piece on why she "eats healthy." Weil includes his recommendations on vitamin and mineral supplements, which I found helpful. I guess I would recommend the book, but not highly, because it's just a tad too intellectual and not a practical enough guide.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book but be aware what it isn't...
Comment: This is an excellent book as many other reviewers have noted but please be aware of the following:
1)It is not a "diet" book in the sense of magical ways to lose weight
2)It is not a book on "fitness" nutrition for people who want huge muscles and low body fat.
3)Health in the sense of the absence of disease, the optimum functioning of the organs of the body and a long-life has much more to do with body chemistry, blood pressure, cholersterol levels, the condition of your coronary arteries, the presence or absence of free-radical damage, etc than it does with the amount of lean muscle mass that sits on your frame or whether or not your body looks good in a bathing suit.
I make these points because many people complain the Dr. Weil doesn't look like John Bastow or the author of "Body for Life" so what can he know about "health". Get a clue!! While regular moderate exercize is related to longevity there is NO evidence that "Body for Life" types are healthier the way it really counts just because they have better looking bodies than Dr. Weill. Which do you think is healthier: a lean muscular body combined with high blood pressure, clogged arteries and a colon lined with intestinal polyps? or a body that looks pudgy in a bathing suit but with low BP, low cholesterol, clean arteries and an otherwise clean internal bill of health?
This book is about eating well for health and it is excellent. One of things I like most is that there is nothing "flaky" about it. Weill reviews what we know about nutrition from solid scientific research and is always clear to distinguish that from his own opinion about nutritional matters that may not be fully supported by current research.
Buy it and live longer.
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Title: 8 Weeks to Optimum Health by Andrew Weil M.D. ISBN: 0449000265 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 16 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit by Andrew Weil, Rosie Daley ISBN: 0375413065 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Vitamins and Minerals by M.D. Andrew Weil ISBN: 0804116725 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Spontaneous Healing : How to Discover and Embrace Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself by Andrew Weil M.D. ISBN: 0804117942 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Natural Health, Natural Medicine by Andrew T. Weil ISBN: 0395911559 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 20 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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