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You Are What You Eat : The Plan that Will Change Your Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Gillian Mckeith
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  112 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 7 x 1.1
ASIN: B000GUJH9Y
Publication Date: March 31, 2005
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 JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE AUTHOR AND YOU CAN SEE HOW HEALTHY HER DIET IS!!! August 15, 2008
The diet advice in this book is completely impractical for anyone with a normal life and it is quite dangerous. I'm a normal healthy person and found that after 2 weeks of filling my belly following this diet, I was feeling light headed and weak all the time. I practice sports and after 3 weeks on this diet I was injured for the first time in my life!!! Take a look at a picture of the author and tell me she doesn't need a good steak!!! This is a book written by someone with OCD, she is as food obsessed as the overweight people she treats!!!
Misleading and unproven August 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gillian McKeith's TV programme is totally misleading. Take some hugely overweight people who eat about 5000 excess calories per day and place them on a diet of green vegetables for three weeks... Guess what? They lose lots of weight! The contestants are always hugely overweight and have a terrible diet so that they are guaranteed to lose weight. On any restrictive diet you lose several pounds in the form of water in the first few days anyway, as your body burns short-term carbohydrate stores in response to the reduced calorie intake. You feel great and lose weight, but then your body starts to cry out for fat and carbs in a starvation response. You are then forced to eat and put it all back on. This is the problem with all restrictive diets: you can not starve your body, it will always win.
Gillian McKeith's books are full of the worst type of pseudo-science and cranky unproven methods. It is not healthy to eat dozens of vitamin pills: most of the claims of vitamins are unproven and you are unlikely to be missing any important vitamins on a balanced diet. Detoxing is not healthy and doesn't work - it makes you gain weight by causing a starvation response that tells your body to store all available calories as body fat. The recipes are typical depressing and worthy wholefood concoctions with no seasoning rather than inspiring ideas.
I would suggest Marisa Peers' or the Food Doctor books instead.
 What a Wonderful Book Its FAB!!!!! January 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am what you may call a healthy eating exercising freak. I buy lots of exercise dvds and healthy eating books, but very rarely find one I can read from cover to cover. I found this book very easy to read and Gillian's story (preface) at the beginning is extremely inspirational and gave me a good feeling about her from the start. Her book is filled with expert advice that really works if you are self-disciplined and you use it to the letter. Everything she suggests is for the best health reasons and really improves your well-being. She offers good advice on everything from your 'five a day' to detox. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT: I WAS A CAKE AND NOW I'M A LETTUCE LEAF!
 Very general and a bit unrealistic August 25, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although I found the book interesting at first, I found it was very general and not very realistic. Unless you want to follow the detox I don't find it very useful as a guide. Don't bother looking at the websites for any free tips or information because you won't find anything free at all.I have found many better books on the subject afterwards.
Some interesting health information but totally unrealistic as a diet plan August 2, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I think this is only useful really as a reference book for looking up nutrition related ailments or juice recipes (although they aren't even that good). My main criticism with this book and Gillian McKeith in general is that it is just too extreme. All the foods she promotes in her book are great to include in your diet and it is best to limit or reduce the 'bad' foods but to totally cut so many things out is unrealistic. Only a very small minority of people could actually stick to her diet in the long term.
My main problem with Mrs McKeith is the way that she is so unforgiving of anyone slipping or falling off the wagon by eating something that she claims is 'wrong' or 'bad'. I know she uses shock tactics on her programme but I have been horrified to see her bring people to tears for eating something they shouldn't. When people try to stick to such restrictive diets they are bound to end up craving high fat and sugar foods even more. When this happens the last thing you should do is tell them what a failure they are. That'll only serve to lower their self esteem further.
Anyway, good in pricipal - eat good food to be healthy but far too extreme for long term success.
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