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Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss By Joel Fuhrman ( Little, Brown and Company )
Release Date: 2005-01-04
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When Mehmet Oz or any of New York's leading doctors has a patient whose life depends on losing weight, they call on Joel Fuhrman, M.D. In EAT TO LIVE, Dr. Fuhrman 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. When the ratio of nutrients to calories is high, fat melts away and health is restored. Losing 20 pounds in two to three weeks is just the beginning. The more high-nutrient food Dr. Fuhrman's patients consume, the more they are satisfied with fewer calories, and the less they crave fat and high-calorie foods. Designed for people who must lose 50 pounds or more in a hurry, EAT TO LIVE works for every dieter, even those who want to lose as little as 10 pounds quickly. No willpower required-just knowledge!
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 Myth-Busting. Revolutionary. Inspiring. ( jellis )
EAT TO LIVE is a remarkable study of proper eating strategies to combat disease and to lose weight. The book was recommended to me by a friend who at the age of 60 had lost 60 pounds and dramatically improved his diabetes and cholesterol. It has already changed my life. My wife has been following it for eight weeks with tremendous results. She has lost weight and feels better. I am next...
According to Dr. Joel Fuhrman, America's love affair with animal-rich foods is causing obesity and leading to an explosion in deaths due to cancer and heart disease. Contrary to the conventional wisdom promulgated by the diary and meat industries and the USDA, a diet rich in animal proteins and dairy is not only unhealthy, it could kill you.
The "four food groups-including large portions of meat and dairy" supported by the milk and dairy industry and the federal government have been shown to increase disease in people. In the words of Fuhrman, "This [USDA] program ignored science."
"Cancer is a fruit and vegetable deficiency disease" says Fuhrman. He says: 1. Vegetables and fruits protect against all types of cancer. 2. Raw vegetables have most anti-cancer properties of all foods. 3. Vitamin pills and supplements cannot take the place of fresh fruits and veggies, 4. Beans have special cancer-reducing properties.
A proper diet - one which leaves the person healthy and vital - will contain at least 90% fresh fruits and vegetables. Milk, dairy, meat, fish and chicken may not comprise more than 10% of the intake.
I am overweight and have just started this new regimen. I have lost and then regained weight on other eating plans including Atkins and sugar-busters. I am looking forward to a vegetable and fruit rich eating regimen and will update this review as I go along...today is January 6, 2009.
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Simply The Best ( sttlane2 )
In my opinion, this book is and always will be simply the best book on health there is. Thank you Doctor.
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Best book on nutrition in the world
I thought I knew all about basic nutrition and what we're supposed to do to loose weight, but for nearly thirty years I have struggled unsuccesfully to loose it. I knew there must be some secret I was missing. I've read books, tried herbs, exersize plans, prepared meals, the works. This book has it! The secret is out! The USRDA has been lying to us all our lives about what good nutrition is. With Dr. Furman's plan for healthy eating it can finally be done for a lifetime of good health. Once we understand what our bodies really need and give it to them, the weight issues take care of themselves. I lost 8 lb the first week by just implimenting what I learned (not even following his suggested meal plans yet) and I've not felt hungry but better than ever. It's not about being skinny, It's about being healthy.
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If you can do it, you WILL lose weight ( dalittrell )
I'll join the chorus of authorities that guarantee that you will lose weight if you follow Dr. Fuhrman's advice in this utterly convincing book. The only problem is that most people can't follow his advice. This is mainly because they have been so indoctrinated by special interests (big agriculture, the fast food industry, the processed food industry, and unfortunately the United States Department of Agriculture that is headed by people from or going to those industries) that they are unable to even believe the stark truth expressed herein.
Bok choy has more calcium per 100 calories than milk? In fact it has more than five times the calcium. See the chart on page 90. Broccoli has more protein per calorie than steak? You have got to be kidding. See page 59 and elsewhere to learn that broccoli has twice as much. The most nutrient dense foods are raw leafy green vegetables? Easily. See pages 120-121.
What is going on here? And why have we been so deluded for so long?
First note that bok choy has a whole lot of water and fiber, and therefore by the time you get to 100 calories you have eaten a whole lot of bok choy. This is less true for broccoli or for the green leafy veggies, but the point is the same. But note this: Fuhrman is reckoning nutrition this way because one of his main points is that the mind detects satiety in the stomach by volume not weight. In other words, stuff your tummy with steak and brie and you will feel full only after many hundreds or even thousands of calories have been consumed. Stuff your belly with beans, apples, squash and spinach and you'll feel full after perhaps a few hundred calories. Pesto! You will lose weight.
But that is only part of Fuhrman's program. The more salient point is expressed in his formula, "health = nutrients/calories." This means that "Your health is predicted by your nutrient intake divided by your intake of calories." (p. 7) Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables so that you get enough calories to run the engine of mind and body and you will automatically get all the nutrients you need and stay slim. Eat refined foods, highly processed foods, foods with lots of fats and animal proteins and you will either get fat from too many calories consumed, or you will eat little and be starved nutritionally. In fact, your body will cry out for the nutrients and persuade you to eat more and more of the relatively nutrient-poor foods causing you to gain weight, probably massive amounts of it, and thereby join the obesity epidemic that is sweeping America.
All of this is well known by nutritionists and the informed populace, but is like knowledge from Mars for most Americans and is a point of rigid denial by others, especially those in the various food industries mentioned above.
One might reasonably ask: can the normal, average, everyday Joe Six-Pack or Soccer Mom actually follow such a diet as Dr. Fuhrman recommends? Well, let me equivocate: not easily.
First you have to give up eating out, except maybe selected places like the local vegetarian restaurant. Forget every other place. Their foods are loaded with fats and refined foods often super-sized. Second, you have to shop more often than you usually do because you have to buy lots of fresh fruits and vegetables (the heart and soul of Fuhrman's diet), and you have to buy organic since if you eat a lot of non-organic fruits and vegetables you will go crazy trying to wash off all the pesticide residue, and you will not get it all. Third, you will have to have an open mind about foods and consume a wide variety of beans, lentils, greens, roots, nuts, fruits, etc. so that you won't be bored. People who try to eat carrot sticks and celery and raw broccoli soon give it up out of boredom, even if they dip it in sour cream. Fourth, you will have to acquire some skill in preparing attractive meals with spices from these nutrient-rich ingredients.
In other words, this will require time and effort until it becomes second nature. Alas, most Americans are too busy (with infinitely less important things) or too lazy to do what is required. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
The most striking insight in the book, to me, is not anything to do with the efficacy of Fuhrman's diet, but this from pages 64 and 65: "Over fifty years ago, the USDA began promoting the so-called four basic food groups, with meat and dairy products in the number one and two spots on the list. Financed by the meat and dairy industry and backed by nutritional scientists on the payroll of the meat and dairy industry, this promotion ignored science." He adds, "It was taught in every classroom in America, with posters advocating a diet loaded with animal protein, fat, and cholesterol...The campaign sparked the beginning of the fastest-growing cancer epidemic in history and heart attack rates soared to previously unheard of levels!...Some foreign enemy out to destroy America could not have devised a more effective and insidious plot."
Fuhrman warns that "a vegetarian diet is no guarantee of good health" since people may fill up on pasta, bread, rice cakes, crackers and other nutrient deficient foods. He writes, "Following a strict vegetarian diet is not as important as eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables." (p. 75)
For those sophisticated readers who are aware that human beings did not grow their big brains until they started eating meat and cracking open the bones of animals for the marrow, let me say that those beings did not live long enough for the bad effects of such an exclusive diet to kick in. Furthermore, chasing lions and hyenas away from the kill was a sometime thing; and raw, unprocessed plant foods dominated their caloric intake.
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Eating Matters!
This book challenges the modern medical views that our health answers arise from pharmaceuticals. Fuhrman discusses several major chronic degenerative diseases and how processed foods play a part in their development. He also includes some recipes that are quite tasty - once you have weaned yourself off of processed food. Just try eliminating refined sugars and flours for a few weeks and see how you do. If you are anything like me, you'll be quite shocked at your physical symptoms as you go through withdrawal.
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