| View Larger Image | What to Eat: The Ten Things You Really Need to Know to Eat Well and Be Healthy | Paperbackby Luise Light (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 272 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 23, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 210,724th |
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Eating for optimum health and longevity is easier--and tastier--than you ever imagined! With all the conflicting information about what and how to eat for good health, is it any wonder that the majority of us are both overweight and undernourished? In What to Eat, internationally respected nutrition expert Dr. Luise Light cuts through the confusion created by misleading advertising, fad diet doctors, and the big food lobbies to answer all your nutrition-related questions. Even more important, she arms you with a simple, research-based eating plan guaranteed to help you look and feel better than ever--without having to sacrifice taste or turn your life upside down. A no-nonsense nutrition guide, What to Eat supplies you with: Ten simple rules for healthy eating--customizable for your tastes and lifestyle A new, simplified food pyramid A step-by-step eating plan Guidelines for eating out Fast, easy, and delicious menus, meals, and recipes Surefire strategies for making kids want to eat healthy foods "From her experiences inside the USDA, Dr. Light brings new insights on how powerful agricultural and political forces have created the recipe for our national diet. Readers who care about their health will find much to learn within these covers." --Walter Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, and author of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy (20060101) |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 9 reviews)
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We need more books like this! by Diane Moore  5 Stars
May 27, 2007
Since I have switched to eating more natural, organic foods, I have been finding some great books on the subject. Luise Light has 10 rules for healthy eating, and they have nothing to do with "dieting."
She says that you should:
1) Eat a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.
2) Eat whole grain-pasta, rice, breads, and cereals.
3) Eat certified organic foods.
4) Eat natural fats/avoid synthetic fats.
5) Avoid refined starch and sugar.
6) Eat wild fish and meat and eggs from range-fed, antibiotic- and hormone free animals.
7) Eat several good sources of calcium.
8) Avoid too much salt and salty foods.
9) Avoid processed and additive-rich foods.
10)Drink plenty of clean, filtered water.
Sounds obvious, right? Then why do we keep eating in a way that makes us gain so much weight? The author tackles the issues that talk about more than just "eat healthy and exercise." She talks about what's wrong with our food. "In the past fifty years, food has been transformed into packaged products designed by industrial engineers for long shelf life, profitability, and repeat purchases. We're relying on brand names, labels, and marketing slogan instead of tried-and-true human experience. Today, and across the globe in our own backyard, more people are fat, sick, depressed, and fatigued than at any other time in recorded history."
Does this scare you? It should. She recommends what many other dieticians recommend. Going back to basics. Don't rely on low-fat nightmares to make you healthy. If you are eating "low-fat," something else gets in there to take it's place. Eat naturally, eat organic, eat to heal yourself. She talks about the kids of foods we should avoid, fake ingredients like: Artificial food colors (which is linked to things like asthma and hyperactivity) sulfites, (linked to cancer) MSG, (used in a lot of food from places like Burger King, McDonalds, etc) Food preservatives, (linked to allergy and sensitivity reactions) etc.
This is information that I have found in books time and time again. I know that there is truth in it not only because I constantly read about it, but when I have followed this advice, I have lost weight slowly, had less headaches, and feel more awake and alive than I ever have. She isn't peddling some diet hoax, she is showing us a new, healthier way of life.
Highly recommended.
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Important information about nutrition... by D. Mcdermott (Cape Cod, MA USA) 5 Stars
May 14, 2006
I just finished reading this book and was amazed at the incredible amount of information contained between its covers. Not only does Dr. Light discuss "what to eat" as the book's title tells us, it also engages us with eminently readable accounts of the influences of government and the food industry on what ultimately gets presented to the American public in the form of things like the food pyramid and other nutrition related reports. Add a mind boggling chapter on nutrition related illness, as well as another on obesity and diet and you have all the basics you really need to know in one book. It may well be that the recipe for hummus included in the short, sample menu section is alone worth the price of the book...yum!
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE by Kaayla T. Daniel (Albuquerque, NM United States) 5 Stars
February 11, 2006
Dr. Luise Light offers a fascinating under-the-covers look at what happens when government agencies climb in bed with big business. Did you ever wonder how our U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1980 came up with a food pyramid that encouraged people to pig out on 6-11 servings of bread, pasta, bagels, cereal, crackers and other cheap, starchy carbs every day? Did you know that this recommendation differs little from the USDA's advice to farmers on how to fatten pigs? No wonder the U.S. is in the midst of an obesity epidemic!
Dr Light once worked for the USDA. She and other experts had proposed a far healthier, science-based food pyramid that would have encouraged real, whole foods only to see it deconstructed by higher-ups kowtowing to the greedy grain cartel and processed food industry. The FDA,too,has forgotten its mission as America's "foremost consumer agency" as shown by its approval of lethal drugs like Vioxx, neuro-toxic ingredients like aspartame and a spurious health claim for soy protein. Unhappily, she has plenty more evidence of government corruption and industry arm twisting.
What to do? Dr. Light recommends grass-roots, local and personal solutions. We the people must not only speak out and join up but vote with our dollars in favor of real, live, whole, organic and slow foods. If her ten commandments for healthy eating seem obvious, the bottom line is that common sense is uncommon. How else can we explain the fact that 250 million Americans are sick, tired and malnourished yet continue to gorge daily on packaged, processed, damaged, dead and fast foods? Clearly, a whole lot of people need Dr. Light to hold their hands as they learn the ABCs of real food and take those difficult first ten steps. For those able and willing to go the distance, Dr. Light wisely and generously refers readers to the Weston A. Price Foundation and other independent, courageous and forward-thinking nutritional and environmental organizations.
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Help at long last by S Waller (Seattle, WA United States) 5 Stars
February 01, 2006
I was amazed to find this book. How important to finally hear that the food supply itself is the cause of some of my overweight problems. I can't wait to start using some of Dr. Light's dietary suggestions. They seem really "right" to me. They're so sensible, not another crazy diet "fad." From what Dr. Light says, so many American's health problems can be traced back directly to our badly managed food supply. How shocking! It's astounding to think that so many of us have been manipulated into obesity, fibromyalgia, or ADD. I think everyone should read this book!
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Food Truths by Kim Kurt (New York)  4 Stars
January 30, 2006
I don't read diet books, being that overweight is not my problem. Shopping and cooking for my family while working, that is my problem. Dr. Light's book, "What to Eat," is the first thing I've seen which really explains how all those processed foods that look so fast and tempting in the supermarket are short-changing us nutritionally. It's kind of scary, actually, especially since the author exposes the way the government (she worked for the U.S. Dept of Agriculture so saw it first-hand) is hand-in-glove with the big food companies to deliberately make us eat wrong, resulting in diabetes, fat kids, slowed mental activities, and a lot of other bad health problems. What makes this book exciting, though, is how easy she makes it to get yourself and your family on fresher, healthier foods. And you don't have to be a vegetarian, which I'm not, to do it. She even suggests some recipes. We loved her Turkey Tacos, and my teenagers, surprise! like her Swiss Chard with the nuts and raisins in it. I'll still shop at the supermarket but not for the processed things with ingredients you can't pronounce. And I hope to join a farmers cooperative, where you can get fresh foods, some organic. I think all parents and school cafeteria people should read Dr. Light's book, which is actually a good read, straightforward, smart and inspiring.
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