Easy Health Diet: Manage Weight and Prevent Scary Diseases

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Summary: Easy Health Diet: Manage weight and prevent scary diseases
Review: Easy Health Diet: Manage weight and prevent scary diseases is an easy to use beginner's reference to health, diet, and exercise. The author, a doctor of physics, does not claim any professional knowledge in these areas. Instead, the author has used his exemplary research skills to undertake his own health transformation. The author uses these experiences to guide readers towards undertaking their own research towards personal health transformations.

Easy Health Diet: Manage weight and prevent scary diseases is full of research material. The author includes sections demystifying myths about low carbohydrate diets, surgery, drugs, calorie cutting, and suffering. The author stresses that the only way to truly lose weight is to burn more calories than one is intaking while still eating a nutritionally sound diet. The author suggests that adding soy products to the diet while decreasing four-footed animal meats is the key to eating nutritionally while decreasing both calories and fat. To this end, the author explains in great detail the benefits of soy products, the types of soy products available, and how to prepare soy. The author even includes links to dozens of online merchants and recipe sources.

Easy Health Diet: Manage weight and prevent scary diseases is very well researched. Furthermore, the author makes great attempts to present his research in an informative way that gives the reader basic knowledge in health issues while challenging the reader to take charge of his or her own health concerns. Moreover, the author also introduces low cost and budget saving alternatives instead of promoting high cost specialty products.


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Summary: Common Sense Approach To Diet
Review: Every day the media inundates us with all kinds of advice pertaining to diets. Individuals calling themselves experts come up with the diet of the day that according to them is sure to solve all of your problems. These may be drugs, surgery, foods to avoid, etc. Some of these suggestions have a certain amount of validity; however, others are nothing more than myths.

Donald A. Miller, Ph.D. has written numerous articles pertaining to health, and as he states in the forward to his book, Easy Health Diet: Manage Weight and Prevent Scary Diseases, he was disgusted with the amount of misinformation being dished out concerning health, diet, weight loss, and fitness.
Consequently, he set out to try and present a practical guide for the layman, wherein the emphasis is placed on common sense rather than, as he terms it, "crack-pot ideas that make wealthy gurus."

Miller deals with a multitude of topics and as he asserts- the book's material is presented for informative purposes; what you do with it is up to you and your medical doctor. We are told that exercise is not enough for weight control. The kinds of foods we consume are crucial in maintaining a healthy diet, such as soy, which Miller fully examines in order to demonstrate its benefits. The author points out that if his breakfast contains extremely little fat of any kind, he feels light- headed and develops strong hunger pains well before lunchtime. He proceeds to explain that it is good to consume a small amount of low fat such as cheese, toast with margarine, along with other foods. Evidently, protein concentrates without fat do not head off hunger.

Several of Miller's own creative nutritious recipes are introduced, each explaining why they are good for one's health, such as oriental shepherd's pie, twenty minute beef and soy stew. These recipes focus on ingenuity in cutting down on saturated fats and sugars, without, as Miller, explains, going crazy in the efforts.

Every branch of knowledge has its own distinct lexicon, and the author supplies his readers with short list of terms and their meanings listed alphabetically that we often come across in the media. In addition, as further sources, readers are referred to numerous interesting web sites and free health articles where useful information can be secured. It is to be noted, that there is an e-book version of the book that integrates active hyper links within its pages, as well as several useful Internet addresses.

The information contained in the book is excellent, but with an undertaking of this kind, better chapter organization and informative subheads would have been welcome, as well as the inclusion of an index. There is also a lack of good editing that would have weaned out many of the typographical, spelling and grammatical errors.

Norm Goldman, Editor Bookpleasures