A Guide To Healthy Cooking Classes
October 19, 2009 by Eating Healthy · Leave a Comment
A Guide To Healthy Cooking Classes
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Tips To Healthy Cooking Classes
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Overcoming Overeating
September 16, 2009 by Eating Healthy · Leave a Comment
Diet/binge. Good food/bad food. Punishment/reward. These are the compulsive eater’s nightmares, a longtime pattern of recrimination and guilt that ultimately leads to more overeating and more weight gain. Now, for the first time, here is a proven, step-by-step plan that doesn’t control your eating habits–but cures them, once and for all. From the authors of “When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies”.
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5 Stars It’s working for me!
I’ve combined this book and “The 10,000 Step Diet,” and have lost 15 pounds in 9 months. Still losing, too. It’s slow, but it does work and it’s not hard.
1 Star Weight Problem? A Book To Avoid.
At the time that I found this book I had just finished another weight loss/ weight gain cycle and was ready for something that would transform the way that I viewed food as well as my weight. I thought that this was the answer to what I had been dealing with for as long as I remember and I must say that I was extremely disappointed and let down.
They first encourage you to drop all the pretenses that you have about what is “good” and “bad” food and eat accordingly. You are supposed to re-imagine the cultural standards of beauty and health and search for yourself, and find peace pretty much in the way that you are right now. There are a set of steps that you are supposed to undertake, from recording what you eat without judging, and trying to understand why you eat what you eat and when.
I think that allowing and encouraging people with problems with emotional eating to eat emotionally is not the answer. I gained over forty pounds following this (I don’t know the exact number because you are advised not to weigh yourself, and I didn’t). And, through the whole process was told through the book and associated message boards that I had to accept this, and the sooner that I wasn’t afraid of gaining weight the sooner I would be able to lose it without trying by simply not restricting myself and therefore wanting to eat things that are healthy.
I have to honestly say that I have to take the blame for the path that I went on as a result of reading this, but I think that it is irresponsible to encourage those with a history of weight problems to follow this program. It seems like it has all the right answers because it stops you from the insane cycle of dieting and lets you have a vacation from the real world of calories, fat, etc. meaning something.
However, I did gleam something useful from this- that self acceptance is key no matter what, especially with weight. I am currently on the way to losing the weight that I gained, slowly and reasonably. If you are seriously wanting to lose weight and feel better about yourself while stopping the insane cycle of dieting understand that weight loss takes work, it takes calorie counting and being aware of what you are eating, it takes working out- but all these things need to be done in a way that you can continue the rest of your life. If you are doing something that is causing you to gain weight (like with this book) or is something you can’t continue indefinitely then you are not doing something that will help. As for the self-esteem/emotional eating you need to work on that separately. I would recommend www.shrinkyourself.com for a way to deal with that without eating yourself into oblivion and clothes that are 6 sizes too big. Avoid this book the same way you would avoid a fad diet that will just be a waste of time and hope.
5 Stars Finally, something sensible!
I had already been using some of the principles of the Weigh Down Workshop but found it a bit judgmental. This book helped me learn to care for myself properly and not be so critical. As a result, I lost 60 pounds and took it back off after a pregnancy. I’m pregnant again and not worried about shedding the baby weight. I really appreciate a wholistic approach to this issue!
5 Stars Eating is Emotional
I was given this book a couple of years ago by the therapist seeing my prior to having gastric bypass surgery. I was shocked and so pleased to finally see what I had known all along. That diets succeed only in making us fatter. That I was not a failure because I could not loose a hundred some pounds on this diet or that. Here was the tool I needed. Along with this book and some therapy I learned the emotional pain behind why I ate. I had never tapped into that before. Two years later I have not had the surgery. I did get married. I learned to love and accept myself. That’s more important than a flat stomach. Please, if you’ve struggled with a real weight problems, read this book and find a compassionate therapist.
5 Stars Finally, I Get It!
I had bought this book years ago but didn’t remember reading it so I read it. I’ve been a dieter for about 25 years and always end up in the same place…heavier than before and more unahappy with myself. After reading just the first couple of chapters, I felt like a heavy weight (no pun intended!) was lifted from me. I’ve been “demand eating” for about a week now and I can’t believe what a difference this has made in my life. One of the biggest changes I’ve noticed is just in my overall attitude about life. I’ve been nicer to people and more positive in general because I don’t have this constant negative self-talk going on in my head anymore. The next biggest thing I noticed was that food and the scale have lost all power over me. I don’t feel anxious anymore when I eat because I have learned to eat when I am truly hungry. If you are truly ready to change your life, read this book!
From One Frozen Pizza to Another: Changing Eating Habits in a Changing World
September 1, 2009 by Eating Healthy · Leave a Comment
Deadly Harvest
August 27, 2009 by Eating Healthy · Leave a Comment
With a record number of overweight people and an alarming increase in degenerative diseases, many of us find ourselves turning to meds or fad diets in an effort to drop excess pounds or recover our health. Since most drugs come with dangerous side effects, modifying our diet would seem relatively safe and simple. But what if our foods were doing more harm than good, and fad diets only made matters worse? Deadly Harvest is a groundbreaking book that carefully examines how the foods we eat today have little in common with the foods of our ancestors, and why this fact is so important to our health. It also offers a proven program to enhance health, combat illness, and improve longevity. Author Geoff Bond is a nutritional anthropologist who has for years investigated both foods of the past and our prehistoric eating habits. Using the latest scientific research and studies of primitive tribal lifestyles, Bond first explains the actual diet that our ancestors followed–a diet that was and still is in harmony with the human species. He then describes how the foods in today’s diets disrupt our biochemistry and digestive system, leading to health disorders such as allergies, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, obesity, and more. Most important, he explains the appropriate measures we can take to avoid these diseases–and even beat them back–through healthy eating. Contrary to what many people believe, the disorders that plague our society are not inevitable, but are the unfortunate result of modern dietary choices. Deadly Harvest not only explains why these problems have arisen, but offers a blueprint for improving our diet, our health, and our quality of life.
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5 Stars Deadly Harvest by Geoff Bond
Deadly Harvest This book is the “Bible” of optimal human nutrition. I’m a medical doctor, and find Geoff Bond’s research the best I’ve ever read on human nutrition. His recommendations have guided me, as well as my patients, to better health & wellness.
Rita J. Stec, MD
5 Stars Best Overall Resource
I’ve read 70+ books in the last four years on diet, nutrition, food intolerance, gluten intolerance, autoimmune disease and diet, paleo diet, and related medical and nutritional issues. And literally thousands of online medical abstracts and articles. Geoff Bond’s book “Deadly Harvest” is the best and most comprehensive overall resource to date.
Ultimately the weight of everything that I’ve read points toward Bond’s conclusions as to the foods to eat, fresh greens, vegetables, fruits and selected fish and meat in close to a wild state. And the foods to avoid, wheat, dairy, grains, legumes, perhaps nightshade vegetables, lectin containing foods. But nobody else pulls it all together as well in one volume, the rationale and the practice.
Anyone struggling with excess weight, or hard to resolve chronic health problems, should consider acquiring this book and adopting the practices advocated, at least for a strict trial period of several months. This includes those with gastrointestinal problems, autoimmune diseases including lupus or multiple sclerosis, diabetes, depression, anxiety, acne,osteoporosis and many others.
As I learned these principles the hard way by drawing on numerous sources, and adopted them, I gained many concrete health benefits and overcame nagging medical problems. I lost 35 excess lbs four years ago with no trouble, easily achieving my ideal weight, and have not had any tendency to gain any of the excess weight back. My cholesterol levels and blood pressure improved markedly. Gastrointestinal problems disappeared. Energy and clarity of mind increased. Now virtually all the useful principles that I had to draw on so many sources to acquire are available in one comprehensive source, Geoff Bond’s book, Deadly Harvest.
Even if the author had stopped at dietary issues and the rationales for them, the book would have been invaluable. But he goes on to explore other issues of lifestyle, community, and rites of passage that may be critical to our mental health and happiness. Bond asks crucial questions that almost nobody else is asking: “What is the environment our human bodies and minds are really made for?” “Why?” “How can we best approximate that environment in the 21st Century?” And, “What physical and mental health, and happiness and satisfaction, can we gain?”
A health educator wrote of long experience in working with people dealing with chronic health problems: Twenty percent of people are not willing to do anything to resolve their health problems. Sixty percent are willing to let their doctors do the work if not much is required of the patient. Only twenty percent are willing to do whatever it takes, themselves, to get well and achieve optimum health and well being. This book is written for the latter one out of five. And for anyone willing to inquire, plan, and work to avoid problems in the first place.
5 Stars “Deadly Harvest’s Revolutionary Insights Rescue me from Excruiating Bad Health
I have had bouts of intense pain for a period of 11 years. I have gone screaming into emergency rooms, screaming into my doctor’s office. I was told I need colonoscopies, hysterectomies, laparocscopic surgery. You name it, I have successfully avoided all of those. I just kept pressing for,”Isn’t there something I can do with my diet?” The answer always came back that I could eat whatever I want. The pain I had was at my right side near my pelvic region. I knew it was digestive because of how the pain came on. I was told for years it was endometriosis. Then I went to Dr. Rita Stec, a renowned doctor in Palm Desert, Ca. I saw Deadly Harvest in her office. I started to read the book, finished the book, it worked. I have been pain free for weeks, which is a milestone. I completely believe that what the book says is true. I have researched enough with my Master’s Degree to know a lot, Geoff Bond knows a lot more! READ THE BOOK.
5 Stars For the self-motivated with an open mind, courage and determination
Following on from ‘Natural Eating’, ‘Deadly Harvest’ builds on a very broad range of food/lifestle issues, and adds other important concepts including the specific history of changes in food supply/demand over the ages. It also provides references to more detailed reading on particular topics. It’s all kept in perspective though and related to the bigger picture, without overshaddowing it, and whilst cleverly illustraing that the nuritional devil is often in the detail.
Further, it goes beyond the first book by examining the lifestyles of our ancient anscestors and how our current lifestyle, for good or for worse, can be in contrast to those hard-wired behaviours practiced for so long.
The funny thing is, as left-field as its thesis may sound to a ‘Joe-blo’, the content combines anthropology and contemporary ‘main stream’ science. There is nothing ‘whacky’ about it. I’m an engineer, and although I by no means hold my profession in paticularly high esteem, generally speaking my personal moral/intellectual compass for decisions and actions is guided by logic, reasoning, intuition and evidence, not dogma, status quo, fear and tradition. So its right up my alley.
The recommendations in this book are on another tangent to modern western nutritional science in spite of them being based on anthropological evidence, modern medical studies, anecdotal evidence, and joining the dots of history. As such, and due to the incredible compexity and lack of understanding of the human body, many issues (as with modern western nutritional science) are arguably ‘uncertain’ and can possibly never be ‘proven’. But, even if your God came down today and told us that ‘only 80% of the book is right’, if you put it’s principles into practice, then I believe you would still be light years healthier than 99.99% than anyone else on this planet, including just about everyone that tells me ‘oh I eat pretty well’. How would you know? Unlike many things in life that you read about (finance, theolgy etc.), the main thing is here that you can put things into practice immediately and watch your health probems drift into another distant self.
The book can be as little as an insightful and concerning read for the converted, all the way to a life-changing, mind-changing book for the rest of us, that shows us the elephants in the room.
I hope others can use the insight within it to fight the dogma and challenge the status quo from grass roots level.
But a warining: You’ll need courage, motivation and dedication. Unlike anything else I’ve read it makes no glamorous claims to the process and the lifestyle that it advocates. There are no easy answers, no silver bullets, and it’s hard work because, to the disappointment of most, the food criteria of ‘tasting good’, ‘being filling’ and ‘being cheap’ must be a distant second to its basic principles if you want to obtain good health. But there is pleny of guidance in this book and his others about relating the first principles to modern day living and food supply, and the steps to sucess.
5 Stars A fascinating anthropological history of eating
Other books have discussed the so-called Paleo or Stone-Age diet, but none with the depth of research and insight found in this book. Bond looks at how our human ancestors ate, because that is the diet that our bodies were designed for. He then maps out how we have veered from that way of eating, with disastrous consequences for our health. He then offers a plan for approximating the encestral diet in the modern world. All of this is backed up with thorough research. A fascinating read!
Conquer Your Food Addiction The Ehrlich 8 Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
August 19, 2009 by Eating Healthy · Leave a Comment
Conquer Your Food Addiction The Ehrlich 8 Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
This behavioral approach to losing weight is divided into eight weekly sessions in which participants work to overcome their addictive eating habits and strive to meet a personal weight-loss goal. The author, a self-described compulsive eater, is a counselor who designed this nutrition program and currently uses it with clients. Although Ehrlich asserts that her rather complicated plan is not a diet with food prohibitions, no one who faithfully follows it will overeat. Based on limiting the number of food types that can be consumed at each meal, this system, according to Ehrlich, will change ritualized compulsive eating into planned, healthy consumption. For example, breakfast should consist of one or two items, lunch can include two to three items and dinner may contain three to four elements, such as a piece of meat, a starch and a vegetable. She also recommends drinking 10 glasses of water a day and prohibits diet sodas and finger foods. Above all, Ehrlich stresses that readers need to change their habits with regard to food: all meals should take at least 20 relaxed minutes to be consumed, each item should be entered in a food log the author details here and meals should be planned ahead of time.
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5 Stars a brilliant book!
An incredible book and an incredible program behind the book.
I have lost pounds and pounds and conquered an addiction - literally quantum leaped out of a problem i had for all my life
a must read!
DC
3 Stars The good points are great, ignore the extreme ones
I borrowed this book from my local library, I jotted down what I found to be helpful, good information and ignored the extreme behaviors such as weighing in 2x a day and vacationing with my scale! Then I brought the book back.
She does make a lot of good points, and a lot of the advice does make sense. But it is the book of an obsessive person and I can’t imagine living that way. I won’t give up sandwiches, but I do put them down between bites and make a conscious effort to eat slower. I do not eat all my foods independently of each other. Some things were meant to go together.
I don’t tell people I am dieting. But I also don’t consider black tea or coffee food.
Use the book as a reference, pull out the parts that are helpful to you, and ignore the rest.
5 Stars One of a kind - Get it!
Conquer Your Food Addiction is a one of a kind weight-loss book. Yet it’s much more than that! As a behavioral approach to weight loss, it a manual for a new way of thinking, behaving, being and eating.
The author’s basic premise is that one need not change the foods one eats, but, instead, one’s habits. It sounds so basic, until we try it. As creatures of habit, our diets revolve around deeply-ingrained habits and rituals derived from personal history, a contemporary super-size culture, and daily life-styles. The main idea/goal is that if one is overweight, barring some medical condition, one is eating more than needed out of habit!! Change the habits/rituals and you change your food consumption.
Although this book is written for those who are food addicts, it speaks to all of us who more often than not use food as an emotional filler, and/or who just eat out of habit, social pressure, boredom and so on.
In terms of the actual weight loss, the author turns into a personal weight-loss trainer - in fact, she is one, for those who live in the New York area. Her goal is our goal: to reach our weight loss goal, regardless of how many pounds. Like a coach, she asks again and again, “What do you want to weigh?” This is tremendously helpful in sticking with it! By focussing on the goal, the issue is less about food and more about changing our habits, hence our outlook, about eating to get us to our permanent weight-loss goal.
I find this book one of a kind. In fact, I don’t see another out there like it! I highly recommend it for someone who is serious about transforming both mind, behavior and body!
5 Stars A book after my own heart.
First of all, I didn’t read this book in order to lose or maintain weight. I read it because of the title, “Conquer Your Food Addiction,” which reflects my attitude toward food consumption and bodyweight, which is: If I’m eating more than I need to eat for proper nutrition AND enjoyment, and I am overweight but with no medical problem causing my excess weight, then I should pay attention to my eating habits and change them. The way I had lost weight and maintained that loss without feeling deprived of enjoyment, turns out to be basically the way the author of this book went about it, and wrote about it.
And, I, like the author, had other serious addictions–my own having been heroin, which I kicked forty years ago, and cigaret smoking, which I kicked eighteen years ago. I figured I didn’t need an amount of food that caused me to be overweight any moe than I needed heroin or cigarets.
There is no book that is perfect for every person. Upon reading any book, one should learn from it what one can, and do whatever else is helpful for one as an individual. I find, for myself, that regular exercise three times a week, helps give me a sense of how much I need to eat. I also try to make my calories count. For instance, I have a sweet tooth, but I have found that instead of having a piece of cake with rich topping, I am truly satisfied with, for instance, a whole-grain rice cake or whole wheat matzoh with natural (non-hydrogenized) almond butter, topped with reduced fat sour cream or yogurt.
2 Stars Inconsistent and disappointing
Ms. Ehrlich (who has no credentials I have been able to discover) begins by promising that her program is not a diet, and that you can still eat anything you want. She goes on to essentially equate bread with dessert, and forbid sandwiches outright, along with anything else eaten with the hands. There does not seem to be any recognition that different people have a problem with different types of food or eating situations. Despite her claim that this is not a diet, much of the book is taken up by her meal plans.
With revolting illustrations and such recommendations as wearing tight clothes and tightening the belt before eating, she takes an aversive approach to food and eating in general. There is also a lot of focus on weight. “If you really want to weigh ___ pounds” is repeated as a mantra. Ehrlich prescribes an obsessive habit of twice-daily weighing, going so far as to insist that if the reader were serious about weight loss, he or she would pack a bathroom scale on trips. A person with a compulsive eating problem probably already has plenty of self-loathing, and it seems like some of these strategies could really backfire.
There IS some good advice in here–like the importance of recognizing small successes rather than focusing on failures–but not nearly enough attention to the behavioral aspects of compulsive eating.
How to Avoid a Nutrition Vacation
August 19, 2009 by Eating Healthy · Leave a Comment
The Parents Guide to Eating Disorders Supporting Self Esteem Healthy Eating and Positive Body Image at Home
August 16, 2009 by Eating Healthy · Leave a Comment
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5 Stars Wonderful, common-sense advice!
Eating disorders seem to be epidemic, especially among young women, and this book offers sensible advice to those struggling with body image and those who love them. It questions some of our dangerous cultural assumptions, acting as an antidote to the toxic beliefs that are poisoning us. Every parent concerned about a child’s eating habits should read this book! Based on years of clinical experience, Ms. Herrin’s analysis is profoundly simple and applicable to the world in which we really live. I wish I had read it sooner!
1 Star Not recommended
If you’re a parent looking for information on family-based treatment (also known as the Maudsley approach), don’t buy this book. Herrin has taken some of the principles of Maudsley and adapted them in ways that are contrary to both the letter and spirit of true Maudsley treatment. Much of the advice dispensed here is the same old conventional “wisdom” on treating eating disorders.
Herrin’s “adaptations” of the Maudsley approach are often way off the mark. For true Maudsley information, read Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder by Daniel le Grange and James Lock.
–Harriet Brown
Co-chair, Maudsley Parents
www.maudsleyparents.org
1 Star Pass this one by
As far as I can tell, there’s nothing wrong with the author’s advice on nutrition. Dietetics is her field and I’m willing to accept her expertise there. But most parents are able to feed their recovering child with general guidance from their family-based treatment specialist and a pediatric or adolescent medicine specialist with ED experience. Interestingly, although the authors cite research on family-based treatment, she neglects to mention that those studies did not include nutritionists or dieticians–they were not part of the treatment. If Herrin called her program “Dietician-Centered Weight Restoration” it would more accurately reflect the intervention she describes, with expert information handed down to parents who are meant to act as enforcers.
When we were helping my daughter recover our treatment providers didn’t give us a meal plan but rather helped us think of the eating disorder in a different light (as something separate from our daughter, not an expression of her will), they helped us work together to get the job done, they kept us focused and helped us to stay strong and not give up. It was a very difficult period for my daughter but we stayed as positive as we could. Throughout, we emphasized our love and respect for our ill daughter, as did our providers. This set the stage for later treatment when we talked about independence and getting back to normal teenage life. The book gives little attention to these important later aspects, perhaps because they aren’t dietary in nature and fall outside the author’s area. I was puzzled by the author’s suggestion for “concurrent therapy.” FBT isn’t a rejection of therapy–it’s a TYPE of therapy, and weight restoration is just the start. This point seems to have been missed by the authors.
Perhaps I took this too personally, but the presentation of parents using FBT was very much at odds with my experience. The authors write, “Under no circumstance is it acceptable to let their anger boil over into physical aggression.” WELL, OF COURSE NOT! At it’s heart FBT is a compassionate treatment for anorexia that rests on a foundation of family love and respect. To present parents as stopping just short of violence gives an entirely wrong picture of what it’s about.
5 Stars A valuable resource for parents
This is a comprehensive and well-written book that will help parents navigate a vast amount of complex information about eating disorders. It clearly explains the various eating disorders and provides concrete information about treatment, about supporting children at home and in treatment, and about how to foster a positive body image at home.
5 Stars Great resource for Maudsley parents
The Parent’s Guide to Eating Disorders contains an excellent section devoted to PAMS, or Parent-Assisted Meals and Snacks. I cant tell you how valuable and necessary this information is for a parent implementing the Maudsley approach to an eating disordered child. The author discuss the importance of monitoring and “forcing” your child to eat, what you should serve, how to deal with food fears, and what to expect. Nothing is sugar-coated, there is actually an example “Jessie’s Story”, in the middle of the chapter that provides support and encouragement. They stress the importance of being as loving as possible and give real advice on outlasting the child’s resistance and not giving up. This process, sitting with a child, arguing over calories and trying to get them to just eat, can be so frustrating,and the authors help parents provide a united front and find the courage and strength within themselves to bring an end to their kid’s ED. Any parent thinking of using the Maudsley method would find this book an invaluable resource
How Healthy Is Your Diet
July 24, 2009 by Eating Healthy · Leave a Comment
From a humorous skit about a family arrested for “criminal eating habits” to a “fat-finding expedition” at a local grocery store and restaurant, this program emphasizes moderation and the avoidance of unhealthy foods. Produced by MTI.
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