Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
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As seen on the Today show! The National Bestseller Based on Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health Research…A Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Eating That Topples the USDA Food Pyramid In Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, Dr. Walter Willett explains why the USDA guidelines — the famous food pyramid — are not only wrong but also dangerous. Debunking current dietary myths such as the evils of eggs and how high milk consumption does a body good, Dr. Willett sets an all-new nutritional standard. You’ll discover: eye-opening new research on the healthiest carbohydrates, fats, and proteins why weight control is the single most important factor menu plans and recipes that make it easy to reinvent your daily diet Amazon.com Review
Aimed at nothing less than totally restructuring the diets of Americans, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy may well accomplish its goal. Dr. Walter C. Willett gets off to a roaring start by totally dismantlin… More >>
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
This book epitomizes, once again, society’s determination to find what is best. For years, America has lived with the tale of the four basic food groups. Then, a number of years back, this was changed to the “nutritional pyramid”. Now, the Harvard Medical school wants to flex its academic muscle and change this yet again.
So many times, people come out with new and improved (?) ways of dieting and nutrition. Most times, however, these methods are leaped upon by an unsuspecting society and hailed as the new “wonder methods” that will make us a healthier people. However, each time there appears new evidence that totally dismantles those theories. Back in the 70’s, saccharine was deemed the devil’s mixture because of the threat of cancer. So, nutrisweet was born. Then, nutrisweet was a cancer-causing agent. In the early 80’s, cholesterol in eggs was a harbinger of death. Then, it was reported that the numbers were inflated, thus resulting in that information not being any good.
Now, Harvard Medical is trying to say that following a balanced diet is not the healthy way to go. It makes a person start to wonder whn theyare going to come out with the notion that chips, dip, and ice cream are the healthiest things a person can eat.
Rating: 1 / 5
I can’t say enough about the people I bought this book from, they were great in every way.
Rating: 5 / 5
[[ASIN:B001W5AM28 Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating] I had a copy of a book with this same title. I must have lent it to someone anyhow I can’t find it. I purchased this one from Amazon it seems to be a different printing. I don’t remember it in this format. There seemed to be more useful information, my other copy was a paperback also. I suspect this copy is an older printing. Look for the Paperback version I believe it is better, more up to date.
Rating: 2 / 5
There’s nothing really wrong with this book. But it seems very middle of the road and determined not to offend. The basic message is to eat more whole grains, fruit and veggies and less red meat and dairy products. This same message can be found in dozens of other books and there’s really nothing new to be found here.
The problem is that the author claims his advice is based on scientific evidence but I don’t really believe he is willing to advocate any major changes. For example if red meat is unheathy why isn’t he telling us to eat NO red meat? If simple dairy products like milk and butter are unhealty why isn’t he telling us to eat NO dairy products or to eat on’y cultured dairy products? Harvard is a really big institution and gets funding from other big institutions. It simply feels like the author is too much a part of the establishment and is not willing to recommend anything radical even if the evidence points to it.
The author’s essential wishy-washy nature is most clearly seen when he gives advice on a diet for overweight people to follow. He advises that we roll our diet plan, maybe borrowing a few ideas from Dr. Phil, a few from the Zone, a few from the low glycemic camp and so forth. This is laughable. The reader wants to be presented with a sensible plan not told to mash together elements from a bunch of other plans.
Finally it annoyed me that half the book consists of recipes. Most of us who buy a book like this have tons of cookbooks. I bought this book hoping for an up to date summation of health research. Instead I got an uninspired cookbook combined with stock advice. And, yes, it’s great that the author helped create a more sensible food pyramid than the government. But I really got tired of the endless references to it.
Bottom line: surprisingly little substance and nothing new to be found in this book.
Rating: 2 / 5
Amazing insight on health, diet, & fitness. It really has been making me think & most definatly changed the way I eat & excercise. It does take effort though; the book won’t do it for you.
Rating: 4 / 5