The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity
by Donna Gates, Linda Schatz
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Book Reviews of The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity
Book Review: I think I'd rather have my $25 back
Summary: 3 Stars
Most of this book is built on old themes... juicing, avoiding sugar, etc. No news there. Much of the remainder is built on ideas that haven't passed muster with mainstream medicine... blood-type diet, food combining, colonics, alkaline/acid diets, "contracting" vs "expanding" food types, yin/yang chinese medicine ideas. I'm not saying it's all bunk... just that I would prefer more studies cited and footnoted. Like other posters here, I would say the Nourishing Traditions folks are much more solid. Also, I think the "Gut and Psychology" book is very solid. "I Was Poisoned by my Body" also has an impressive number of tips on specific tests and other products she has methodically sorted out.
But the book in question has some tips on making kefir and cultured veggies that some might think helpful if you don't mind vague recommendations that a certain vegetable "strengthens the spleen" or "cleanses the liver".
Book Review: The most comprehensive book on diet available
Summary: 5 Stars
As some one who has studied nutrition for a long time, I can safely say that this book is the most comprehensive that I've encountered, especially for those with an imbalanced or impaired immune system or digestive tract. The diet is pretty strict, especially when it comes to sugar, but if healing, health, and wellness are your goal, stick with it, because it works. The book has given me a new appreciation for whole foods, and it's also given me my taste buds back!! I actually enjoy the taste of vegetables again. If shedding weight is your goal, then this diet will do it for you as well-just stick with it! I was already in good shape when I started, and I lost 10 pounds, gained lean muscle, and my skin took on a healthy glow. It's also introduced me to things like coconut water kefir, and other healthy, delicious snacks. I recommend this book over any other in terms of nutrition for healing. Thank you Donna Gates.Book Review: Sales pitch for product
Summary: 1 Stars
I love reading books about health and try to stay current with information. However, I was extremely disappointed with this book. It is nothing more than a thinly disguised sales pitch for the author's products.
The book itself is a hash of other books combining the blood type diet, with acid/alkaline food combination, with fermented foods and colon cleansing. There is no new information in here and scattered throughout the book are liberal refences to the author's products. At the back it has some recipes using these products, and the very last page is a full page add for supplements for sale! I felt this severely damaged the credibility of the book.
Neither one of the authors are in the health care industry. They have never seen a patient, and have simply written a book based on other books with the purpose of promoting their own business of selling supplements.
Book Review: Good information, sense a little greediness though...
Summary: 3 Stars
This book has some very important information, most of which cannot be found any other place. It's probably not a book you can take to your mainstream Doctor and talk to him about without him telling you it's a little "new age-y". But, if you are an independent thinker and are willing to do what it takes to get well, this book will encourage you and give you valuable ideas and information. The part of the book I disagree with are the subtle hints of how to buy the products BED endorses. I do not believe that you need to buy any of those products to journey to wellness. If it sounds to complicated or too expensive, it probably is. You can find substitutes for coconut kefir and others in Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. But this book was an essential piece in the puzzle that is leading my daughter and I to wellness. Many thanks to the author for that.Book Review: Changed my Life
Summary: 5 Stars
The Body Ecology Diet changed my life! It is a new way of combining and cooking foods that my body loves. No more sugar, wheat, dairy, alcohol . . . would seem to be a difficult thing to accomplish. I am amazed by the wonderful new receipes I have learned from this book. My whole approach to cooking has changed. I can now savor the taste and smell of the vegetables and find carrots to be wonderfully sweet. My sweet tooth is now satisfyed with vegetables. I never would have believed that my cooking would look so beautiful as a result of all the bright veggies I use in my meals. I had never even heard of raw fermented veggies until I started this book. Now, I can't imagine not enjoying them everyday. You will never be sorry for reading this excellent book. I can honestly say that I will be on this course of wholesome fresh food for the rest of my life.