Books on Nutrition

Fenster · #1 (**permalink**) October 16th, 2006, 11:00 AM

I am looking to get a good book on Nutrition. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Fenster

mikelikes2bike · #2 (**permalink**) October 16th, 2006, 04:46 PM

I've been toying with the idea of buying this book.

Fenster · #3 (**permalink**) October 17th, 2006, 03:56 AM

I will take a look at that one.

Fenster

John_KY · #4 (**permalink**) October 17th, 2006, 01:37 PM

I recommend "Beyond the 120 Year Diet" by the Gerontologist Roy Walford. It's a comprehensive book on maintaining optimal nutrition while on a restricted calorie diet. It's a really good guide for getting what you need from food.

Amazon URL here: Amazon.com: Beyond the 120 Year Diet : How to Double Your Vital Years: Books: Roy L. Walford

John

Fenster · #5 (**permalink**) October 18th, 2006, 03:58 AM

Thanks for the suggestions.

corndogggy · #6 (**permalink**) November 27th, 2006, 08:51 AM

"Body by God"

deschain · #7 (**permalink**) November 29th, 2006, 11:40 AM

Anything other than, ok, not really anything, but certainly NOT Eat Right for Your Type - it's total garbage that has been discounted by every nutrition professional out there.

corndogggy · #8 (**permalink**) November 29th, 2006, 02:59 PM

Personally I wouldn't recommend swearing by any one book. Every last one of them is going to be opinionated to some degree. If they were all 100% correct, they'd be all the same, and there wouldn't be thousands of them on the market today. About all you can do is to read lots of stuff constantly. If you start seeing patterns of things that are mentioned by multiple authors, it's probably something you ought to pay attention to. On the same level, if you see an off-the-wall idea written by only one author, it's probably something you ought to dismiss. It's easier to read articles on websites that have good reputations because they're usually pretty short and to the point, therefore enabling you to remember them better. Too many books have too much padding and it's hard to remember everything by just plowing straight through it.

maleficent · #9 (**permalink**) November 29th, 2006, 03:05 PM

I haven't read it myself but it's gotten some decent press and decent reviews...

You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management (Hardcover)

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Book Description
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting--and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.

Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.

Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.

With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet--The Owner's Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.

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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Back for another highly entertaining round of Biology 101, the team behind YOU: The Owner's Manual applies its signature wit and wisdom to food metabolism and nutrition. According to Roizen and Oz, waist measurement, not weight, is the most important factor in mortality related to obesity, and understanding the relationship between chemicals and hormones influencing hunger and those signaling satiety is the key to ending yo-yo dieting. Most diets fail, Roizen and Oz conclude, because body chemistry overrules the best plans and intentions. To restore the body's natural ability to balance hunger and satiety and offset the effects of stress on food choices, they list foods and supplements that fight fat, decrease appetite and combat inflammation that causes disease. Roizen and Oz pack in a lot of material—quizzes, "factoids" and "myth busters" along with diet and exercise plans, recipes and a two-week "rebooting" program—in bite-sized portions, giving readers a chance to absorb and apply what they learn. For those considering medical intervention, they discuss current options for drugs and surgery. (Oct.)

Ohappydaye · #10 (**permalink**) November 29th, 2006, 03:09 PM

I'm buying that this weekend Mal, I was watching Dr.Oz on Oprah today and I'm really interested in reading this. Its an early Christmas present to myself.

maleficent · #11 (**permalink**) November 29th, 2006, 03:21 PM

isaw it in borders the other night and was going to get it.. looks like amazon has it pretty cheaply - it looked good - i just didnt want to carry it

Ohappydaye · #12 (**permalink**) November 29th, 2006, 03:53 PM

Now that I have a handheld I never read an actual book anymore, I buy them all in ebook format. Maybe I'll google and see if its sold in this format...THAT would be awesome.

I had planned to get it from Barnes and Noble. I have an extra 15% off sticker in addition to my membership discount....pretty sweet deal! But I'd rather have convenience...if I can get it.

Ohappydaye · #13 (**permalink**) November 29th, 2006, 03:56 PM

Woo Hoo found it in ebook format on ereader.com!! YES!

billybob235 · #14 (**permalink**) December 18th, 2006, 01:22 PM

Eating Well For Optimum Health by Dr. Andrew Weil
Eat, Drink, and be Healthy by Walter Willet

These are NOT diet books, but focus primarily on health and nutrition. They are great. Then, when you read other books about losing wieght, you will be able to tell if they are healthy strategies or not based on what you learned in these books. I swear by them, very solid foundation.