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Dr. Gillian McKeith's Ultimate Health Plan: The Diet Programme That Will Keep You Slim for Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Gillian Mckeith
Brand: Dr Gillian McKeith
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 5659
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Pages: 223
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 7.1 x 0.6
MPN: GMK-UHPB
ISBN: 0718148916
EAN: 9780718148911
ASIN: 0718148916
Publication Date: January 4, 2006
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Dr Gillian McKeith?s Ultimate Health Plan.The DIET programme that will keep you slim for life.The first 50 pre-orders will receive a signed copy! Flick the healthy eating switch and never look back!If you want to change your diet and change your life then follow Dr Gillian Mckeith?s Ultimate Health Plan. This is your personal one-to-one consultation and Gillian will be there for you every step of the way. It includes:Level 1: THE WAKE-UP CALL.. Level 2: THE PLANLevel 3: THE DR GILLIAN DETOXLevel 4: SLIM FOR LIFEThis programme is 100% practical highly interactive and gets spectacular results. It will inspire in you a passion for looking after your body and show you exactly how to do that now and for your life! ?Step by step day by day I will make it easy for you? Dr Gillian
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 1 week later, 60 lighter! March 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I watched the TV series and was very impressed by the results that Gillian was getting so I thought I would get the books and give them a try.
Having tried this diet I can honestly say I believe the people who lost weight did so because the food was so bland they gave up eating, (certainly lettuce soup was enough to put me off eating for life), and the diet is just not practical for anyone on a budget, I put all the ingredients into Tesco online for one week and the bill totaled over 60.00 and as every day is different I ended up storing randon things like half an avacado.
The basic principles are sound, unprocessed food is far better for the body and everyone is better off eating fresh food than pre-packaged adative full rubbish, sadly the way in which the fresh food is presented had me reaching for a nice tasty burger and they aren't something I even eat!
Try Beyond Chocolate by Sophie and Audrey Boss if you are serious about loosing weight, they have a very different approach which has changed my life and whole relationship with food.
 It worked for me! September 7, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
What can I say? I was 13 stone and overweight and now I am 10 and a half stone (well within the healthy weight range for my height)and I can credit McKeith with it all - well OK, the willpower was mine! I am surprised by the really strong feelings McKeith seems to provoke - and a little suspicious - come on guys this is a diet book! She's just recommending that we eat healthily and not unhealthily! Where's the big deal! I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but it does strike me that McKeith's popularity is a significant threat to some very powerful interests (processed food industry for one). Why did it work for me? Well, to my mind diets fall into 2 categories - restrict what you eat or restrict the quantity you eat. McKeith belongs very much to the former camp. - she basically allows you to eat a large quantity of food - sometimes I literally could not finish the meals- how great is that when you are on a diet! OK there are a couple of meals which are pretty much inedible but most of it is fine and there are many delicious recipes. If you like fruit and veg you won't have problems with her diet. I was surprised how painless it really was - because I was really never hungry! Her theory may be dubious, but I feel and look better than I have done for years. Like acupuncture, maybe the science is bunkum but the results speak for themselves. Difficult finding the ingredients? I don't think so, visit a reasonably large supermarket and a reasonably well-stocked health food shop and you've got it covered. All power to McKeith - I think she may be the kick in the butt we all need.
 Nonsense April 18, 2007
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
I'm reminded of the anecdote of two friends in a jungle: when they spot a tiger, one puts on his trainers. His companion laughs "you'll never outrun a tiger, even in those", to which the first replies "no, but I'll outrun you". There's an evident dichotomy in the reviews of all McKeith's books, with her decerebrate fans tending to find she has "changed my life completly" and "I would deffinatly reccomend this book" (lucky for them it's not a case of "you are what you spell"). Ultimately, McKeith's quackery proves that she doesn't have to be smart, just smarter than you.
A word of warning April 4, 2007
21 out of 28 found this review helpful
A word of warning before you start taking Gillian McKeith too seriously.
I can't comment on how her recipes taste - but try reading a few reviews of her other books.
If you're looking for dietary advice you need a dietician. Nutrionist is a made up word - anybody can call themselves a nutrionist (and a lot of nobodies do).
Gillian McKeith is no longer allowed to call herself "Dr" after a recent ruling by the ASA. She has no medical qualifications, just a PhD from a non-accredited US college (you can get one for yourself for around $800).
However, I don't really care what her qualifications are, it's the nonsense that she spouts which annoys me.
Yes somewhere at the heart of what she says in this book is sensible dietary advice - eat fruit & veg. not burgers and ready meals. Like most diet books this is just a faddish way of dressing this up with some nonsense pseudoscientific explanations of why it might work.
She insists it is better to eat food raw because we need the enzymes. These are destroyed in your stomach and broken down before you absorb them. However there are few more vitamins in uncooked veg. than in cooked. But why can't she say that instrad of making up nonsense?
She believes eating green vegetables will oxygenate your blood because of the chlorophyll. Even if the chlorophyll could get into you blood you'd have to shine a light up your bum for this to work! If it did work it would also be making glucose in your blood (oxygen is just a by-product as far as plants are concerned) which would be a real problem if you're diabetic.
She believes yeast will make you ill because you'll absorb it into your blood where it'll ferment. That really is nonsense, yeast is a living organism and can't possibly enter you blood unless you inject it.
This woman doesn't deserve your money.
If you really want to know what's going on read The Truth About Food or watch the BBC series instead of McKeith's nonsense.
I've read a lot of them - this is the BEST EVER. March 30, 2007
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
Let me tell you from firsthand experience after following this sensible, caring woman's program - it works!!!
I am shocked at the "sour grapes" of a few of the critics below who are questioning Gillian McKeith's credentials. Their sarcasm and cynicism make me want to run away from them as fast as I can. Facts and results are what we're after -- not who has the most time spent sitting on their bottom in Yale, Harvard, Oxford, or other Unis - capiche? Some of the world's leading medical authorities are blind as bats and ignorant as nails when it comes to practical application of nutrition. All you have to do is look around at the health of their patients to prove that to yourself!
This woman gets RESULTS. I've been following the suggestions in her book for 6 months. After only 14 days on her plan, I never felt better in my life. I look and feel younger and my thinking is more clear. I suppose she WOULD provide a threat to the job-security of most nutritionally-ignorant money-grubbing doctors.
How dare ANYONE say she is trying to rip someone off. She is a very caring, intelligent woman and she has made public a work that will improve the health of anyone who reads it and puts it to use.
For those of you who need a bunch of letters after a name to appreciate anything one has to say, I suppose this book isn't for you; but for those of you who want a sensible approach to staying healthy, slender and young, this book is a Godsend!
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