Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
by P. J. Skerrett, Walter C. Willett
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Book Reviews of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
Book Review: Healthy eating
Summary: 5 Stars
Great book. We received it as a gift from our son and daughter-in-law.
"Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy : The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating" is not a diet book but a scientific look by a Harvard researcher at dietary choices and how they affect us.
Book Review: Excellent Resouce for Developing a Better Diet
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent and comrehensive resource for anyone who wants to improve their health and diet. Dr. Willet explains the "why's" behind foods that should be eliminated from the diet and those that are helpful. This is explored in a way that is reader friendly and very informative. If you read this book you will understand and be inspired to live a healthier lifestyle.
Erin I. Dunscomb CHHC, AADP
ErinsOptimalWellness.com
Book Review: Brilliant and Extremely Practical
Summary: 5 Stars
This book changed the way I cook and eat! I read it in 2003, and since then have incorporated many more fruits and vegetables into my diet. I sometimes joke with my friends that
we should get bracelets saying "WWWD"--that is, What Would Willett Do?, when
faced with decisions on what to eat. Finally, nutrition advice
based not on fads but on epidemiological data. Thank you Willett!
Book Review: Best guide to healthy eating
Summary: 5 Stars
Willett's book isn't a fad diet book, but explains food and what it does for your body. I thought this book was very informative. It set some diet myths straight. There was a good overview of the food groups, the pros and cons of each, and what diseases or illnesses they helped or hurt. I thought the vitamin section was very good and surprisingly brief for that sort of thing. Book Review: Good common sense advice on nutrition
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been saying almsot nothing but good about this book to my friends and family for the last week or two. I read this book once and then had to read it again because it is packed with such good common sense advice which is backed up with explinations about major studies confirming the advice.
Willet starts out with nothing less then suggesting major changes to the food guide pyrimid. The next chapters delve into the reasons for these changes. He explains in more depth about the importance of maintaining a healthy weight, choosing carbs low on the glycemic index, the need for unsaturated fats in the diet, the importance of eating low fat protiens, and the need to eat many fruits and vegtables (not potatoes)daily. Much of the book seems to agree with the mediterranean diet and He refers a few times to the "seven countries study" done by Ancel Keys who was an early proponent of this diet. I was curious to see how the diet worked for Keys and found he lived to be 100 years old!
The book is a treasure and I will refer to it often in the future. One note, some of the recepies and ingredients in the back are difficult to prepare or hard to come by. But don't let this stop you from reading this book and making changes to your diet. It has inspired me to make changes to mine.