Diet Health Books

My daughtert was diagnosed with Celiacs Disease a few months ago and this book has been very helpful. She uses it quite frequently. She has her favorite recipes. Other recipes she hasn't cared for, but overall, very happy with the book.

This book has many recipes that are easy to follow. They are very good and help satisfy the longing for breads, etc. that people on non-gluten diets miss. Great book.

We are seniors with a new diagnosis of gluten intolerance. Gotta learn to bake all over again. This book not only gives lots of good recipes, but talks about those strange ingredients and how to exchange them for something else, or for each other. Very helpful

We love Bette Hagman's cookbooks. My mom bought her first one years ago, and it made a huge difference in the quality of her recipes. When I want a new cookbook for gluten free foods, I look for Bette's offerings first.

Bette Hagman is a pioneer and has performed a great service to those who are diagnosed with celiac disease, and nobody can take that away from her. Unfortunately, she's not much of a baker if this book is any indication. If you are unable to eat wheat, then this isn't a bad place to start. You can make better GF baked goods than you can buy simply by following her recipes to the letter, and if you have no desire to do more than that, then by all means buy this book.

BUT, there are problems with many of the recipes in this book. They are inconsistent. So much so that I wonder if she's even tried them all. Then there are telling errors that make one wonder whether she truly understands what she'd doing.

For example:

Everyone's favorite (and mine too), the Yeast-Rising Thick Pizza Crust has 4 cups of various flours and 1 tsp of salt. Result: fairly flat (I double the salt). However, the thin crusts on the previous 2 pages have 1 cup of flours and call for the same 1 tsp of salt, the equivalent of quadrupling the salt on the yeast crust. Result: a salty crust made edible only by diluting the salt with the toppings.

All of the breads that I've tried are flat. She tends to use 1/4 tsp of salt per cup of flour (including the yeast crust), which isn't enough, at least not for me. I like about 1/2 tsp per cup, or the bread has little taste.

Then there are outright boneheaded things like my personal cookbook pet peeve: 3 tsp. The Challah recipe calls for 3 tsp of xanthan gum. And the muffins. Wow. She warns you not to overbeat your muffins! This is gluten-free flour! You can't overbeat it! The lack of basic food knowledge and kitchen arithmetic is depressing.

The buttermilk biscuits are a mess. They're by no means a cut-out biscuit, they're drop biscuits. But even then they have nothing to hold them together and just crumble. You can't very well butter something that disintegrates when you look at it wrong.

I try to always follow a recipe exactly the first time, just to see what I have to work with. I can't really do that with this book. The times I have, the results have gone from mediocre to disastrous.

If you get (or have) this book, then if nothing else, remember 1/2 tsp salt per cup of flour, and everything will be so much better. If you have another GF cookbook and can wait, then rumor has it that Chef Richard Coppedge, Professor in Baking and Pastry Arts at the CIA, is going to publish a gluten-free cookbook sometime soon. The only thing I have to go on is the word of a current CIA student, but I hope it's true. I am personally looking forward to it, and will be getting it as soon as I see it.

I guess Desmaisons theory is correct but her suggestions didn't really work for me. I do understand that sugar is detrimental to our health but how to go about eliminating it from your diet can be a struggle. I suggest Kat James 'The Truth About Beauty' or Roberts "The Shangria-La Diet" for help on loosing weight and cutting sugar.

This book was excellent: highly educational. The program seems user friendly, achievable and long-term. Part of the program includes avoiding white bread and rice later on, however, depending on your personal needs, it may not be totally necessary. (don't think I could give up french bread for the rest of my days).

I was very enthusiastic about this book upon first reading it that it would solve a lot of my sugar+fatty food obsession (ice cream is my ultimate downfall). It helped me understand what was going on chemically that caused the crazy eating behavior that I engaged in. I started with the first step, which was easy. I tried the second step, then the third. I had a very hard time keeping a food journal. I did it for 3 weeks, and once I fell behind, I couldn't get motivated to keep at it again. But what has become a revelation as of late is that my eating habits have changed just by doing the first step, which is to get an adequate amount of protein at breakfast, which I wasn't doing before, even though my breakfasts tend to be very healthy. I now notice that when I do engage in some not-so-healthy eating of sugary fatty foods, that it'll only last a day of two, instead of a week or two or more. So for this reason, I recommend the book. And also for the reason of understanding the brain chemistry that goes with eating, for that knowledge in itself is helpful to not engaging in unhealthy eating. I am not interested in cutting out sugar completely from my life, for I don't think my sugar addiction is serious, and I'm generally healthy and at a normal weight range and physical fitness level. Also, I'm not interested in following this program 100% because when I tend to concentrate too much on food, that is when I notice my food obsession starts to take over too much of my life, when my goal is not to make food so important to me.

Whenever we embark on a trip to a faraway land, it is always useful to hear what worked and did not work from others who have already been there and done that.

The Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program is packed full of what works and what does not work on the journey to radiant recovery from sugar and/or alcohol addiction. Both Dr DesMaison and many other people from all around the world share their practical insights.

I have found the down to earth wisdom in this book invaluable on my journey to feeling great about myself and my life.

Thanks to Dr DesMaison and all the other people who made this book a reality.

I have binged since I was [...] and have always been 'different' around food. My friends would describe me as emotional or overly sensitive. I saw myself in the pages of this book. I have been working the Radiant Recovery program since October of last year, and I feel like a new person. It's a journey and a process, but I will never go back to being hungry, miserable, and seeking my sugar fix all day!

This is a great book. I'm in a yoga teacher training program and was doing a project on Kripalu so I ordered this book. I am thrilled with it so far and I'm sure I'll be using it a lot when I start teaching.

This is a practical guide for new and seasoned Yogis. It includes the basics for breathing, meditation, and even provides two home practice flows along with a template for adding variety. There are inspirational personal experiences, step by step asanas, and much more for all ages and Yogi levels. My new copy has become my personal Yoga guide and has inspired me to develop a home practice which I began after buying the book 8 weeks ago. Now I practice daily.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to practice yoga while attending college in the 70's; I never forgot leaving that hour and a half usually feeling the best I ever felt. Yes, it was a physical experience, but witout explaination or introduction, it went beyond the physical. Just recently (age 59), I decided to get reacquainted with the practice.

As I studied and searched, I came into contact with Stephen Copes fantastic book "Yoga and the Quest for the True Self". This fantastic book led me to learn about and come to understand the Kripalu yoga method [ yes folks there is much more than just the hatha yoga we all seem to come into contact with]; this great practice is a combination of the physical hatha yoga and meditation. Please don't be overwhelmed; it's, in my book, the perfect combination.

As one who finds himself progressing on a daily basis, I highly recommend these two books. I suggest the reader, searcher, learner to explore a basic hatha yoga book or experience while reading "Kripalu Yoga" and branching out to Stephen Copes book for the "icing on the cake".

Stephen Cope, by the way, is one of the Senior teachers at the Kripalu Yoga Center.

I'm pleased to make this discovery myself and even happier to share my experience.

Namaste ........

As a Kripalu Yoga Teacher I had been waiting for a book that summarizes yet comprehensively explains the Kripalu Yoga tradition. Without minimizing the asana practice the book manages to cover the essence of Kripalu Yoga and taking the practice off the mat to encourage a healthy and spiritually rich lifestyle. I must mention that Kripalu Yoga is accessible to people of all ages and levels of practice. It can be as gentle or rigorous a physical practice as one wants it to be but it can also be as spiritual a practice as one wants it to be. This is the beauty of Kripalu Yoga and the book, Kripalu Yoga, makes this abundantly clear.

Along with affirming the other reviews on this book, I would like to add that I have recently begun teaching yoga and have found this book to be an excellent tool for developing my class formats and information sharing. There is a wealth of information, presented in clearly stated, understandable and comprehensive text, that I can quickly commit to memory to share with my students, or jot down in an outline to reference during class instruction. Having purchased and read volumes of books on yoga, this is the first I have come across that has been helpful in that regard. Kripalu is a beautiful form of yoga that brings the true essence of the practice to life.

This is an excellent book about the AGB before and after surgery. Very easy to read with lots of personal stories from AGB patients. Highly recommended!

The book arrived quickly and was in perfect condition. I have never used amazon.com before and am very impressed by the quality of the books and how quickly they arrive at your doorstep.

Great book! Helps answer any questions you may have about the band. I love this book!

I love this cookbook and so does my mother. She has copied so many recipes I think I will get her a copy for Christmas!

Before buying this book I first checked it out at the library because I don't need any more useless cookbooks in my house. I was thrilled to find that this book is not only a great cookbook but also an amazing source of heart-health information. Having a strong family history of heart disease, I must be very diligent about maintaining a heart-healthy lifestyle. This book answered every question I had and then some. It gave me some reassurance that my family history is not a death sentence and gave me the knowledge I need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I was so impressed with this book that I bought two copies - one to keep and one for my brother.

This is one of the best books out for preparing heart healthy recipes and the big plus is that there is so much more information than I expected regarding the heart and how to take care of it!

The first half of this book covers basic heart health and behavioral changes that lead to better health. This information is well-presented and is would be enough to implement heart-healthy eating. But we also get the added bonus of the second half of the book which covers a number of easy recipes. Don't wait until there's something wrong, start now and stay healthy!

I love this book and have already bought it for a friend and have recommended it to a bunch of my friends.

I am a subscriber to Eating Well magazine and purchased this book after reading an article in the magazine. It is a great book not only as a cookbook but on having a healthy outlook that is done in a realistic manner that is easy to read and understand. If you enjoy cooking and eating good food and want to start eating healthier this book is a good starting point.

This book gives excellent information on hypertension and just regular diet guidelines. Would recommend it to anyone with hypertension or without. Great for someone who wants to lose weight even if they don't have hypertension.

The dietician at the VA Clinic in Lufkin TX says this is the best diet for anyone with high blood pressure. It is a low salt diet and helps a person to lose weight. The American Heart Association has endorsed this diet. It's mostly about portions and the correct amount to eat at each meal. I recommended this book to relatives who have high blood pressure.

This book is excellent. My bloodpressure was up to 160/90 and now
I have a bloodpressure mean of 120/60 ! But: You have to follow all instructions of the DASH Diat. And it really works ! Great book and the price you spend for your health is nothing !

Well, mine was one of those very very very difficult cases for physicians. In fact in my family has been a tradition of very high blood pressures. I have been sort of a buddhist meditator for years in the aim to help my high blood pressure, and I look in Taoism to see if I could find any help for it. Almost three or four weeks ago I received my manual to lower my blood pressure in 14 days. The main problem I had with it was that I had to translate the 67 recipes into spanish, as I live in Colombia, South America, so I just tried to resume the philosophy of the DASH diet, insisting in more fruits, vegetables, less red meat, very very very little sodium and much more dairy products than we usually do.

I decided to order the Dash diet manual the day I had a very severe crisis of blood pressure, 200/120, very early in the morning, even though I had been taking the days before maximum dosis of drugs for hyper tension prescribed by my physician.

So just use it if you have high blood pressures, and you will see the results by yourself!!! It really works!

Now I am just taking one drug, and my aim is to take none, as I had to suspend another maximum dosis of drug with dangerous side effects, as for the first time in my life I had a low blood pressure crisis.

The Dash Diet for Hypertension: Lower Your Blood Pressure in 14 Days--Without Drugs is a good book to learn about Hypertension but as far as the diet is concerned it is far too high in refined carbohydrates and not enough protein. Their diet would be very difficult and or dangerous for a diabetic. The diabetic would have to take much more insulin than necessary to follow the diet. And to lower the blood pressure 6 points is nothing in the total picture. So I would not recommend this book. I have a degree in nutrition and work with diabetics (my husband for one) all the time.

Lots of great quick recipes for the diabetic.

The volume I got has been evidently used by a 'heavy' smoker and still carries the scent. Nothing against this book, but the particular seller. This means I will buy more new and less used books in the future.

It had some good recipes to try but for the most part not anything great. A lot of it is time consuming and not a "ready" snack.

This book had a lot of fun and easy ways to stay healthy and still be able to enjoy certain foods we crave!

This book has made it easier to find tasty recipes that I can eat. I am loosing weight but not feeling deprived because I can snack and even eat desserts and the recipes that I have tried from this book have been tasty and easy to make.

A great book. Lots of healthy alternative snack choices for all occasions. I love it.

I really love this book. It is very easy to use and it makes tracking your food intake very easy. If you didn't have the Best Life book however, you may find it more difficult to understand. It is a wonderful book and I am very glad that I ordered it.

I havent read the whole book yet but so far i love it plan on starting the program next monday.

EVERYTHING IS COMING IN GREAT. WELL THE THINGS I HAVE REVIEWED ARE HERE. SHIPPED FAST. CAN'T BELIEVE THE LAST ONE I ORDERED CAME FIRST BEFORE SOME OTHER ORDERS. THIS WAS A QUICK DELIVERY.

this journal is precise and gives ALMOST everything you need. More space-I think it needs more space and pages.

A companion to "The Best Life Diet," this handy, spiral bound book makes reaching your goals even easier.

The journal starts out with you writing down your vitals stats such as your weight, blood glucose, cholesterol, and so on. There are before and after sections on the same page so you can see if you ultimately reach your goals.

The book moves on to cover the goals of the three phases (readers of the book will already be familiar with these) and then divides into three parts- a section of similar pages for phase one, a section of similar pages for phase two, and a section of similar pages for phase three.

The phase one pages have you enter the date at the top of the page and then rate your activity level. Then follows 6 questions you answer at the end of each day, such as "did you eat at least three meals and at least one snack including a nutritional breakfast?" Other questions are about things such as your water and vitamin intake.

The page then ends with a place for you to enter aerobic exercise data and also includes a strengthening "grid" for you to document your reps, sets, etc. Phase 2 and 3 pages are the same, except that they have hunger scales included at the bottom of each page.

A must-have companion for those who are trying "The Best Life Diet," I found that its best strength is that it keeps you focused on reaching the right goals. Also recommend The Sixty-Second Motivator if you need additional motivation to reach your fitness goals. Good Luck!

I feel the book has to much technical stuff bunch in together.. More just facts on different areas. Doesn't tell you a specific diet plan. I didn't find user friendly

This is the best book on the subject that I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot. In a universe of high quality books, this one stands out as exceptional.

The author is both brilliant and original.

He goes beyond telling us that it is important and beneficial to eat our organic fruits and veggies. Most books stop right there, when you really analyze them.

Why do some people need 100 times more Vitamin C than others do? What is the connection between our minds and our bodies? Where another book may tell us that the path to health is through diet, nutrition, vitamins, etc., Ballentine tells us that the most important element is your own mind. You have to deal with your issues.

In this regard, he agrees with Gary Null, who always says that the single most important factor in health is happiness, and that all the vitamins and organics in the world don't match the importance of living a happy life.

I just got to the part in this book where Ballentine explains that our chemistry and physics teachers were wrong when they told us that the elements in the periodic table can't be transformed into each other without a nuclear reactor operating on them. The enzymes in our bodies, and in the bodies of chickens, fish, etc., are quite capable of transforming one element into another, gently, without that nuclear explosion. Potassium, sodium, iron, copper, calcium, are being switched around inside the bodies of living creatures. Nitrogen is sometimes transformed into carbon monoxide. Amazing. Chickens are capable of making their own calcium, out of other elements, in order to make egg shells.

It's nice to find such an original thinker in this field. And you get the impression that he definitely knows what he's talking about. The fact that this book was written decades ago means nothing. We still haven't caught up to him. He's still ahead of us. He was a century ahead of us 20 years ago.

I first read this book in the mid 80s. I've owned at least 10 copies, I've given them all away. Now I need more. Sheds the light of simple truth on nutrition and diet, dispels fads, confusion and ignorance. Everyone who eats ought to read this book.

I am reading this book for a Holistic Nutrition course that I am doing through home study. It is a very good book that goes into the historical perspective on the field of nutrition as well as nutritional facts. Excellent!

I bought this book when it was first published, many years ago. Since then, I have probably bought 5 copies. It still remains one of the best sources for info and basic guide to what nutrition is all about. All of the writers books are good, but this is my favorite one. It really holds up to the test of time. Easy to understand.

I read about this diet on low carb friends after a few posters had phenomenal success on it, losing 40-50 pounds in 1-2 months and loving the food. I found the diet on the internet and followed it for about a week and a half. I lost 13 pounds. Unfortunately, I had a persistent cocktail habit that derailed me.

I kept going back to Atkins over and over, but it stopped working for me. Why? Too many calories! Too much freedom to eat too much food.

The truth is, you've got to get your body used to eating less. You have to just gut it out, do it strictly without "treats" and lowcarb cocktails and lowfat iced cream, and get back to basics: mostly lean meats, tons of fruits and veggies.

With an ingenious diet, Tarnower accomplishes just that by retraining the mind and body to eat less, eat lighter, and love it. Yeah, its painful at first! You're hungry! But once you start fat-burning, it feels great. I'm going into it with the attitude that I'm basically in boot camp. :)

I read in the internet about this diet and bought the book. Its amazing how good this diet is considering the fact that was written 30 years ago. One thing for anyone who uses this diet. Do not cheat, after all you are cheating only yourself. If you don't cheat the diet works as promised.
Highly recommended book. For me SMD works great.

I have tried literally every diet book out there - Fat Flush, South Beach, Zone, Body For Life - and Weight Watchers numerous times. The only diet that has ever worked for me is SMD. I went on it in desperation 3 years ago and lost 25 lbs in about 6 weeks. I kept all the weight off until I got pregnant two years ago. With 15 baby pounds left to lose, I'm going back on next week!

Tips:
- You WILL be Desperately Hungry, despite what the good doctor says, especially for the first 3 days or so until you adjust. Try diet sodas to help assuage this.
- You must exercise. I found that I did not lose weight on the days that I didn't run a couple of miles. The diet is very low calorie and your metabolism will adjust accordingly if you don't kick it into gear.
- The "Fruit salad every day" may hinder your weight loss. If you're using the alternative lunch with no problem, ignore this one. But I found I often didn't lose weight on the days I used the fruit salad alternative.

Best of luck!

I have been using The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet since it was first published, and have gone through two books. It is a diet that WORKS! Easy to follow, various options and not boring. I have gifted a number of people with the diet book and all have had impressive weight loss. I am over joyed that The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet is still available! Marilyn Woods

This book contains the "original" low carb diet. If you read the book and follow the plan carefully you will have excellent results. I have followed the medical diet for the full 14 days, used the "keep-slim" plan to follow and have enjoyed success with it. You are never hungry and your carbohydrate cravings disappear almost immediately! There are very helpful aids to keep you "on track". Many questions and answers regarding the diet are covered throughout the book! I highly recommend this book!