Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060959584 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Weil's explanation of the chemistry of fats will prove difficult for most readers, but few will want to eat fast-food French fries ever again after reading his appalling reasons for avoiding them, which go way beyond their well-documented heart-clogging capabilities. He warns readers to not fall under "the spell" of the anticarbohydrate Atkins Diet, but also criticizes the eating plan advocated by Dr. After a thorough rundown of nutritional basics and a primer of micronutrients such as vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals, Weil unveils what he feels is "the best diet in the world," with 85 recipes, such as Salmon Cakes and Oven-Fried Potatoes, that are healthy, tasty, quick to prepare, and complete with nutritional breakdowns. Hopefully, years from now, Eating Well for Optimum Health will be looked upon as the book that saved the health of millions of Americans and transformed the way we eat--not as the book we overlooked at o
Now Dr. Weil makes clear how an optimal diet can both supply the basic needs of the body and fortify the body's defenses and mechanisms of healing. At last, a book about eating (and eating well) or health -- from Andrew Weil, the brilliantly innovative and greatly respected doctor who has been instrumental in transforming the way Americans think about health. And he always stresses that good food -- and the good feeling it engenders at the table -- is not only a delight but also necessary to our well being so that eating for health means enjoyable eating.Eating Well for Optimum Health is a hugely practical and inspiring book about food, diet and nutrition that stands to change -- for the better and the healthier -- our most fundamental ideas about eating.. Weil -- whose nationwide bestsellers Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health have made us aware of the body's capacitiy to heal itself -- provides us with a program for improving our well-being by making informed choices about how and what we eat.Dr
The most insightful book on nutrition I have ever read I was fascinated to realize that there are so many MIS-understandings we (collectively speaking) have had-- about nutrition, until now.In his book, Dr. Weil indicated that table sugar, is not as "bad" as we tend to think, as the results from the Glycemic list show that there are worse things (such as white flour).FAT is another issue which Dr Weil makes quite clear, as it has its place in our diets, both in terms of taste, as well as the Omega 3's (or 6's).This book is NOT about "the basics", as it is much more involved. A. I ate it right up! After dinner last night, I sat down and read EATING WELL FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH in its entirety. The book is drenched in self-empowering common sense. Dr. Weil's advice -- and his recipes -- are wonderful. He's made me realize how confused I was about the relative nutritional and health value of the food I eat. His plan seems to be wise and useful. I plan to follow it in order to lose 20 pounds as well as to boost my immune system, and, hopefully, add a few healthy years to my life. And, what's especially cool is that he invit. Hey! We're not all biochemists! Music City Sue I almost didn't buy this book after reading some of the reviews here on Amazon. I'm not a novice in nutrition, and the reviews led me to believe this book wouldn't be of help, that it was too basic, not deep enough. But I'm glad I went ahead and got it because there is enough new information and scientific explanation (especially the omega-6 vs. -3 and carbohydrate processing/insulin) to make this very worthwhile. Yes, it's a good introduction to those new to the field, but there was enough new for me to help me adjust my