Eat to Live Review
January 1, 2009
Eat to Live
A woman in her 80’s commented recently that “food is not important; it is just there to sustain me.” Since obesity has become a pandemic in this country, the question we have to ask is: Do we, as a society live to eat?
In his book, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Dr. Joel Furhman “offers his healthy, effective, and scientifically proven plan for shedding radical amounts of weight quickly, and keeping it off.
Losing weight under Dr. Fuhrman’s plan is not about willpower, it is about knowledge. The key to this revolutionary diet is the idea of nutrient density, as expressed by the simple formula Health=Nutrients/Calories.”
To lose weight, keep it off, and live a long and healthy life, we must consume fewer calories. The big question always is: How to do that and still feel satisfied? You’ll learn in Dr. Fuhrman’s book that the answer is filling your diet with the most nutrient dense foods such as fruits, vegetables, and beans, which tend to be very low in calories vs. their physical bulk.
With these foods, your body’s nutrient requirements are met very quickly, therefore controlling hunger. Also, you can eat large volumes of food, feel very satisfied, and still not consume too many calories.
This book is not composed of a diet plan. Rather, it is a change in lifestyle. It is written for anyone who wants to lose weight and is committed to the challenge. The plan is a simple one. The first six weeks encompasses meals such as salads, fruits and vegetables. Once you understand the difference between the hunger you feel two hours after a burger and fries, and real hunger in your stomach, it is easy.
For example: The book includes 7-day menus and recipes for vegetarians and non-vegetarians. A sample day may include the following meals:
Breakfast: Baked apple with raisins and cinnamon.
Lunch: Salad-stuffed pita with hummus spread and fresh fruit.
Dinner: Mixed baby greens with cracked peppercorn dressing, broccoli and red pepper soup, slice of 7-grain bread, corn on the cob with vegetable-based seasoning.
In a nutshell, this book contains all the information you need to implement healthy changes in your life. As one reader commended, “No one could adopt these dietary changes without seeing improvement, or complete resolution, of their chronic health conditions.”
Eat This – Not That Book Review
January 1, 2009
Eat This – Not That! Book Review
When you were a child, how many times did you mom tell you not to eat something. As a mom, you probably told your child to eat a particular food in place of something else.
A popular book out today, and co-authored by David Zinczenko and
Matt Goulding, is entitled: “Eat This, Not That! Thousands of Simple Food Swaps that Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds–or More!
Readers are raving about this book for a variety of reasons. Each two page section has a list of high-calorie foods that are a healthier alternative. Also included are the reasons why one is a better choice than the other, as well as quick lists of other good choices.
This simple, but effective layout conveys a myriad of information you can access quickly and easily. The sections are listed by restaurant so that given any situation, whether you are shopping at the mall, or making reservations at a specific restaurant, the book is packed with good ideas on how to make better food choices.
Eat This – Not That is a great resource for someone who dines out a great deal or prefers to buy pre-packaged foods. The book is also full of photos with details that break down major restaurant chains best and worst menu choices. Another very helpful section in the book is the decoding of menu items at major types of restaurants.
The Editorial Review tells you a great deal about what you can expect to find in this highly-rated book:
“Eat This - Not That” is jam-packed with secrets the restaurant industry doesn’t want you to know. For example:
* Burger King doesn’t want you to know that a BK Big Fish® Sandwich and fries have a whopping 1000 calories—nearly half your daily caloric intake.
* Pizza Hut doesn’t want you to know that a standard pizza in Italy contains 500 to 800 calories, but the same meal at Pizza Hut can top 2,100 calories.
* Macaroni Grill doesn’t want you to know that a single serving of their Grilled Teriyaki Salmon has more than three times your daily allowance of sodium!
* At McDonald’s, an Egg McMuffin® is actually a healthy choice, with just 300 calories.
* At Krispy Kreme, all you need to do is order the Very Berry Chiller instead of the Mocha Dream Chiller, and you’ll save 500 calories.
* At Chipotle, you can cut 570 calories out of your Chicken Burrito just by ordering it as a bowl (without the tortilla) and asking them to hold the rice.
Most readers found they were uttering the same thing when reading this book: “I didn’t know that!”
If you want the “skinny” behind most fast-food restaurants as well as those you occasionally frequent, pick up a copy of this most fascinating and eye-opening tome.
McCANN’S Steel Cut Oatmeal Review
December 24, 2008
McCANN’S Steel Cut Oatmeal
We all know the nutritional value of oats and in recent years steel cut oats are becoming quite popular as they are good in taste and fast to cook too. Oatmeal is full of good stuff like protein, iron, vitamin E, copper, magnesium, zinc, selenium and maybe some more to add. They are not only good for kids but adults also benefit from them if they have oatmeal in their daily breakfast. It helps reduce cholesterol and helps fend off cancer too. Here we are talking about organic steel cut oats that are completely free of any harmful chemicals and undoubtedly they are natural and healthy. Surprisingly the steel cut oats are delicious and your kids would love to have them daily.
McCANN’S Steel Cut Oatmeal comes with a set of 4 packs of 28-ounce tins and they are Irish oatmeal grown under strict supervision of quality assurance department and are harvested specifically for McCANN’S. This Oatmeal is high in fiber and include all B-vitamins, protein, calcium and other necessary elements for growth and development of kids. You can add a little bit of sugar and cinnamon, which will make it yummy or sometime some berries to get a change. They are very easy to cook too and take quite less time. Steel cut Oatmeal has one extra benefit that nothing is taken out from it while processing and nothing is added and so it is completely natural.
