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21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart: Boost Metabolism, Lower Cholesterol, And Dramatically Improve Your Health (2011)

by Neal D. Barnard(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0446583812 (ISBN13: 9780446583817)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Grand Central Life & Style

review 1: The dutch translated title was a bit misleading. 21 days of a vegan diet to boost your metabolism and improve your health. Although the book has some good tips on how to replace dairy products and such with vegetable alternatives,and how to deal with eating at restaurants and such, it's about the only thing I liked about this book. The vegan motives in this book are purely based on "losing weight" and "improving health" and have nothing to do with the ethics most people consider when going for vegan. Of course fast food eating people will feel better if they eat more vegetables!! I would only recommend this to overweight people with zero knowledge of healthy food who want to eat healthier and want to be taken by the hand like a 5 year old.
review 2: I read thi... mores book for the nutritional content - the explanations of why we should avoid certain foods and why we should indulge in others - because it seemed to me to be in complete opposition to the one I read last year, Taubes' Why We Get Fat. As suspected, these books are polar opposites. One is as close to a Dr. Atkins diet as possible and the other is a vegan diet. And to be honest, it's the vegan diet that makes more sense to me. Am I going to become a vegan? Maybe, someday, but right now I like eggs and feta and goat cheese a little too much. Barnard's reasons for why I should avoid these foods make sense to me, but I am just not quite ready to completely cut the cord. As far as the actual book is concerned, my one issue is that I felt at times Barnard was writing his book for children. More science! Less infomercial! But still, maybe that is what most of America wants and needs. less

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