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: GREAT BOOK, GENIOUS AUTHOR!
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Willett has got to be the most informed researcher regarding nutrition ever. This guy has the knowledge backed up by good science. Has this guy been awarded a Nobel prize yet? This book can change your life. Buy it and do it now!Book Review: Science of dietary choices
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not a diet book but a scientific look by a Harvard researcher at dietary choices and how they affect us.Book Review: stroke of geniou
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently suffered a TIA, which is a stroke with no brain damage and this book was recommended by a relative. Parts were a bit dry but so much made perfect sense. I am now a dietary health nut and owe it to this book and my fear of having a disabling stoke or heart attack.Book Review: Eat, Drink, & be Healthy
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't say enough about the people I bought this book from, they were great in every way.Book Review: Wonderful book
Summary: 5 Stars
Books on dieting and nutrition are available in endless numbers (perhaps exceeded only by the number of cookbooks ;-)). The trouble is that 95% of such books are crap, being authored either by persons without the proper background for expertise or with a strong agenda aside from educating the reader, or often, both issues.
This book is authoritatively and objectively written by Dr. Willett and as such brings to the market a much needed *reliable* source of information.
It should be noted that this is *not* a diet book. Dr. Willett is a nutritional epidemiologist, and so true to form, he expounds on the known links between dietary choices, and various forms of disease, as they have been established over time by epidemiological studies. It's also important to point out that Dr. Willett does not here describe the results of the latest study on this or that, and thank goodness, because he confines what he presents to associations that are based on solid evidence - that is, large, well designed, and multiple studies, and therefore, knowledge that can be relied upon. Where he does on occasion mention *apparent* epidemiological links that need further study to validate, he dutifully and carefully indicates that with caveats.
Dr. Willett also respects the reader - although this is written appropriately for a general audience, he nevertheless engages the reader with mechanistic explanations for why a dietary choice is associated with disease, if the mechanism is known, for example.
I was thankful that although the book is on dietary choices, he includes a chapter on weight control and exercise. While it could be considered to be offtopic, Dr. Willett is an MD/PhD, and rightfully includes this chapter because of the overriding strength of the epidemiological evidence for *these* lifestyle choices, as well as *what* to eat, keeping the big picture goal of patient health in mind.
All in all, I can't say enough good about this book. If you care about your health, I can wholeheartedly recommend that you buy and study it thoughtfully, and implement his recommendations. I have been doing that, and have found that I feel better, and have been losing weight in terms of short term benefits. Of course the long term benefits of reduced risk for so many chronic disease patterns are at least as important in the end.