Finally, a great health book gets some attention

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	• Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating M.D. Walter C. Willett Free Press, 2005 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 124 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

a gem of a book

One of my favorite books - excellent unbiased advice, backed up by scientific research, which enables us all to make informed choices about what we eat.

Finally, a great health book gets some attention

This book was originally released in 2002, but seems to have been lost among the fuss over Atkins, South Beach, etc. Hopefully, releasing an updated version and promoting it in media outlets will convince more people to make use of what is surely the best book about healthy eating habits to be published over the past several years.

This is not a book that promises to help anyone lose weight or tone their abs. Instead, it's a no-nonsense guide to the food we eat, one that examines caloric intake, fats, etc., without laying on the platitudes found in many such guides. For years, Wllett has been emphasizing the importance of avoiding trans fats, an essential point that the rest of the nutrition world seems finally to have caught up with.

If you're looking for sound and reasonable advice about your diet, this is easily the best book around. You might not drop 10 pounds in 2 weeks, but it can have a definite positive impact on long-term health.

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very informative

This book is very informative in helping you to understand the science behind the health information given in this book and elsewhere. For example, it helps you to understand how much protein you need, the amount and types of fat that your body needs. If you wish to be truly informed about the science behind the health messages and which to trust, this book is for you.
The only oversight is in the use of the BMI without sufficient discussion of the BMI's limitations if you are athletic. Since muscle weighs more than fat, if you are very lean (low body fat %) and athletic you may appear overweight on the BMI. The health implications of this are not discussed - perhaps there is no data?

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At Last, a Reliable Book on Healthy Eating

This book is a breath of fresh air among a noxious swarm of books that claim to know how we must eat in order to be healthy. They recommend a bewildering variety of diets, megadoses of vitamins and minerals, herbs, extracts, and heaven knows what else, all guaranteed to make us healthy. Some even peddle the nonsense that they can stop, or even reverse, aging.
In contrast, Walter Willett's book is based on solid science, obtained by careful research involving, in some cases, more that 100,000 persons. There is no intuition here. The recommendations are based on facts. And mighty interesting facts they are. We see that the famous, heavy-on-carbohydrate USDA food pyramid has little evidence to support its role in health. Instead, it appears to support the income of the food industry. He presents his own pyramid, based on daily exercise and weight control. Sitting on this base are whole grain foods, vegetable oils, fruits, vagetables, nuts, legumes, fish, poultry, and eggs. At the top of his pyramid are small amounts of dairy products, and even smaller portions of red meat and carbohydrate. He presents evidence to support his pyramid, and the result is impressive. He leads us through things that we should know about fats, carbohydrates, proteins, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. We even get recipes. For me, a biochemist, the book's strong point is its lack of the unsustantiated claims that I see in so many of the popular books on nutrition. Walter Willett is one the persons best qualified to write an outstanding book on this subject, and the result is excellent.

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#1 BOOK ON EATING HEALTHY

I am sooo glad I read this book. I eat out at least 15 x a week and I never realized that vegetable oil in restaurants could contain large amounts of trans (hydrogenated) fats. Just this one fact was worth its weight in gold to me. Also, he explains how traditional lower fat / higher carb diets are only slightly better than eating traditioinal high saturated fat diets. He explains that low saturated fat but high unsaturated fat is far healthier. Read the book and find out.

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