Natural Alternatives for Weight Loss

Rating:
Summary: A complete waste of time.
Review: Having just recieved Michael T. Murray's "natural alternatives for weight loss", I spent a half-hour or so this evening thumbing through the book to get some kind of idea what the overall picture the author was presenting on the weight-loss dilemma.

As it turned out, a half hour was all the time I needed to see that Michael T. Murray presents no new material on this subject, at least none the reader can use.

Mr. Murray starts out (quite reasonably) with the subject "WHY DIETS DON'T WORK". I seem to remember a chapter of this title in every weight-loss tome from Dr. Adkins "diet revolution" to the venerable "fit or fat" by Covert Bailey. ( No indeed, Mr Murray, they didn't work then, and they don't work now) This somehow fails to expain why in the next several chapters the author attempts to put us on one! Except for a little lip service to supplements like chromium and a (frankly) weird chapter on positive affirmation (ev! ! ery day in every way I'm getting better and better!) the author does absolutely nothing in the way of breaking new ground in the field of weight loss.

I can't see why a professional person would put his name on a book that is a mere rehash of all the old ineffectual hash that came before it. I feel as if I threw my money away.

My advice: don't bother with this one.