Eating For Life
by Bill Phillips
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Author: Bill PhillipsBrand: Eating for Life
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-24
ISBN: 0972018417
Number of pages: 404
Publisher: High Point Media, LLC
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Book Review: You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover (The longest review you'd ever enjoy reading)
Summary: 2 Stars
There are many positive reviews on this book, and if you're going to buy this book based on those reviews, (taste only), then do yourself and your body a favor and use it only as a guide and modify them so they are healthier. If you are experienced, and know how to pick and choose, you can modify the recipes in these book to be truly healthy. However, if you are like the typical person, doing so is very hard and you'll end up eating exactly what is written. At the end of this review, I'll refer you to books that I recommend which have great weight training and nutritional advice.
I've been into health and fitness for over 15 years, and I must say I'm some what of a purist when when comes to the body and nutrition. I believe in tasty but clean, whole foods, without any junk. My opinions about this book are expressed from years of experience and study in health and fitness.
The reason why people loose weight eating this food, is not because of the food. Folks it plain and simple. Raise your metabolism to be a fat-burning machine and burn off more calories than you consume. You achieve this by portion control, small meals (5-6) throughout the day, and cardiovascular and resistance exercise. That's It! Basically this can be done with any cook book out there. It just depends on how healthy you truly wish to be, by which recipe book you follow.
First let me first review the positive then the negative points:
Positive:
1) The author seems like a genuine person trying to help others.
2) The book is well designed. Clean, and great photographs.
3) Tasty meals because they appeal to folks who eat the main stream, Standard American Diet, (S.A.D.)
4) The visual meal charts in the back are clever and functional.
5) Some noteworthy motivational and nutritional and scientific information in the beginning.
Negative:
1) Some meals are way too heavy with dairy, like cream cheese and sour cream, and cheddar cheese and fried foods. One meal is fried eggs and toast. Fried omelets with cheese, Another is turkey bacon on a muffin, (bacon is so loaded with salt, as it's cured in) Pumpkin cheesecake with sugar-free substitute, fake maple syrup, Keebler pie crust (don't they make cookies and junk food?) cool whip! / miracle whip! (it's a "miracle" they can call that food) Wishbone Fat-free ranch dressing! (Do you know how many chemicals, preservatives are in that crud?) and the list goes on and on. I mean come on people! Wake up! This is psydo-healthy food. Food from the Standard American Diet (SAD) just portion controlled and divided into 5 to 6 meals a day. You could essentially take the Betty Crocker cook book, pick meals out of there, portion control them (small meals) and eat 5 - 6 a day. You'd get the same results. And your heart, and blood, and arteries, and veins, and skin and so on would also get the same result, with the high fat, sugar, salt, preservatives, trans fats, and and so on.
2) The use of too many packaged products with some known to be down right dangerous. Like Splenda. I used splenda for a while and got horribly sick for a week. Just do a Google search for "dangers of splenda" and you'll see for yourself. And what in the heck are "Butter buds"? Fake butter I suppose. Why not just eat real, organic butter they way nature intended?! Here is an example of the ingredients in some of the packaged stuff he suggests you buy and eat:
WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, VINEGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, EGG YOLKS, SALT, MUSTARD FLOUR, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, POTASSIUM SORBATE AS A PRESERVATIVE, SPICE, PAPRIKA, NATURAL FLAVOR, DRIED GARLIC.
High Fructose Corn Syrup? Sugar? (Diabetes anyone?), Artificial color, preservatives? A good upper-cut punch to the trillions of cells in the body.
3) I don't believe in a strict vegetarian or raw food diet at all, I believe you need good quality protein. Animal protein can have it's place in a sound nutritional diet, but there are MUCH BETTER alternative meat sources than beef that are low in fat, low in cholesterol and nutritious. This may sound odd to some people who are not used to eating these, but venison has almost zero fat. Ostridge is actually a bird, and you would think the meat would look like chicken, but actually it looks like beef! (strange huh?), but ostridge has almost no fat and is one of the most healthy "red" type meats to eat. Make sure all your meat is organic, or wild and grass fed. (not grain fed). The whole thing about any animal food and why some people claim it's bad for you is the way it's cooked. If it's deep fried, grilled, charred or blackened in any way, those charred or burnt areas (even the grill marks) create substances that are cancer causing. BUT if you cook it by broiling or steaming and don't over cook your meat, and eat small portions, you can eliminate about 75% of the potential cancer cause from meat consumption. The other 25% "possible" risk might be due to the chemical process inherent in cooking meat called glycation. But meat does provide the body with the right type of iron that your body can absorb and use, meat also has vital carnosine, carnitine, and amino acids (building blocks of protein) and grass fed meat has conjugated linolic acid (CLA) that helps keep you slim.
4) Not enough fresh, raw foods. Where is the fruit in this book? Oh wait, fruit has carbs righ? Oh my gosh, we can't have carbs! Give me a break! Fruit is a god-given healthy, all-natural, vitamin rich food. To be really healthy, you need to eat at least 5 raw fruits and 5 raw vegetables every day! Not cooked, RAW. Organic if you can. This is what is called whole food nutrients -- raw, vitamins, phyto nutrients, healthy fiber and nutrition to feed your cells. (yes it's true our soil is depleted and that effects the nutritional value of the vegetable and fruits. I've heard that song and dance for 15 years. It's just a way for people to avoid eating ENOUGH raw foods in their diet. I also believe in fresh, raw, vegetable juices which is a power house of fuel for the cells. Carrot, beet, spinach, parsley, celery, ginger, is absolutely delicious and is like a blood transfusion! You drink that fresh, right from your own juicer and you'll feel the amazing power.
5) Very limited on the diversity of whole grains... there are super grains available, such as quinoa, amaranth, millet, and such. Do a Google search for these and you'll see. Did you know that most people eat the same 6 to 10 food all their life?
6) NO nutritional information. How many calories, bad fats, trans-fats? cholesterol, protein, carbohydrates and such are in these meals? Everybody's calorie needs are different. We'd probably be shocked if we saw it!
In conclusion, most of the "body builders" out there eat this way. A good majority of them have a "basic" fundamental understanding of nutrition.. i.e. protein, carbohydrates, and vegetable with each meal. Small meals throughout the day. But most if not all, error on the side of mainstream, everyday, questionable, products, with no care or concern about their contents, their origin, and how that crud can affect the body in the long term. When you're in your 20's or 30's, maybe even 40's, you can get away with it, but when you reach your 50's, 60's and senior years this is when all the crud you've been putting into your body shows up in the form of physical disease.
This book does one thing well. It appeals to the huge, mass, main stream audience of people who were raised on the Standard American Diet (SAD). -- Rich, creamy, sugary, high fat, salty foods. I think it was made this way so it would sell. That's why so many people praise and endorse it on here. No doubt about it, the meals are tasty, but not all of them are 100% "clean" nutritionally. There are some noteworthy meals in this book. For example, fish, rice and vegetables. Chicken noodle soup (except for the white flour noodles) and such, But many need tweaking to get them to be totally healthy. If you don't have the time, energy, or know-how to adjust these menus, then my advice would be to skip this book as there are better books on nutrition for you.
The author could have done more research, been more dedicated and done a much better job with the "nutritional" information in this book. I think the author failed when he gave people what he knew they would buy and eat, rather than what they should hear. I've never in my life eaten a "butter bud" and I never will.
I once saw a commercial, I think it was for the American Heart Association. It showed a picture of a well-developed, muscular man with his shirt off. He was flexing his muscles. The camera was slowly zooming into his chest, while the voice-over was talking about heart disease. Finally the camera zoomed into his heart. Then the message displayed on the screen: "You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover." That was a profound message.
Check out these books. I highly recommend them:
Make Your Juicer Your Drug Store, by Laura D. Newman (the name says it all)
Men's Health: The Book of Muscle -- The World's Most Complete Guide to Building Your Body, By Lou Schuler, Ian King (this is the best book on exercise form and funciton)
Revitalize Your Life -- by Jack LaLanne (some sage advice from a a fitness "Yoda")
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Summary of Eating For Life
Did you truly enjoy the food you ate today? Do you really like the way you look and feel? Are you consistently enjoying great health and high energy?Bill Phillips, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Body-for-LIFE, believes your answer to all of the above questions should be, "Yes!" He feels that food should be a source of pure pleasure. A source of positive, abundant energy! A "sure thing" in a world of much uncertainty.
Phillips, who's widely regarded as today's most successful fitness author, has firm beliefs which go against the grain of today's popular weight-loss methods. "Diets, all of them, are potentially dangerous, most always dumb and ultimately a dead-end street!" he insists. "Eventually, anyone and everyone who's at all concerned with their health must learn how to feed their body, not how to starve it."
Instead, Phillips encourages a safe and sound solution which includes eating balanced, nutrient-rich meals, frequently throughout the day. "This is what works in the long run," he explains.
Rich with common sense and science, Eating for Life has rhyme and reason. It is specific. There are very clear dos and don'ts which help people enjoy food and improve their overall fitness.
Bill's approach, which he calls the "Eating for Lifestyle," has already helped thousands of people break free from the dieting dilemma and discover that, contrary to pop-culture belief, food is friend, not foe. Used intelligently, it nourishes the body and mind, satisfies the appetite, calms cravings, renews health and lifts energy.
Like Bill Phillips' Body-for-LIFE, this is a tell-it-like-it-is book. There's no promise of a quick fix. No metabolic tricks or so-called miracles. Just straightforward, clear, concise, practical and appropriate principles for eating right... for life.
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