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The Dash Diet Weight Loss Solution: 2 Weeks To Drop Pounds, Boost Metabolism, And Get Healthy (2012)

by Marla Heller(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1455512796 (ISBN13: 9781455512799)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Grand Central Life & Style

review 1: Take the word DIET out of this book because it has to be a lifestyle change. Either you want to lose weight, or this will be just another part of yo-yoing. Either you want to get your blood pressure down, or you'll accept you doctor's order to start a second antihypertensive. I just came off 6 months of veganism, so the beef eating especially revolted me at first, but this is healthy eating at it's finest. Low-carb, lots of veggies and eventually fruits - even alcohol (either as a grain - beer, or a fruit, wine). At my age, this is the correct way to eat, and inso doing, my children will learn and get healthier along with me. Great book
review 2: Meh. This book is more fad diet than anything else, which I might have judged from the cover, if I was that type of... more person. When I read that DASH stood for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension I was hopeful, but the reasonably good information could have been delivered more concisely in a pamphlet. Aside from that, Heller actually points out that the previous DASH diet recommendations have basically been recalled; as early as pg. 4 the author says that the earlier DASH plan recommended far more protein and carbs. Heller also takes the simplistic view that coconut oil is bad because it's a saturated fat, and actually mistakenly identifies it as a short-chain fatty acid (pg. 103), when it is a medium-chain one. Maybe she didn't want to confuse people (she doesn't mention MCFAs at all, neither does she mention omega-9s or the proper ratio of omega-3s to 6s), but I'd expect more from an RD with a Masters in Science (is the problem that it was Science of nutrition and dietetics?); I would have thought that Enig's "Know Your Fats" would be basic coursework. In fact, she maligns coconut and palm oil throughout...then recommends margarine (!!!), the most synthetic of all, on pg. 159. Heller gives overly simplistic explanations (and no studies to back up her assertions until the final chapter, when there are 27...suspicious, no?), the most popular idea of the last forty seconds, and nothing of great substance at all. Meh. less

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