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You Are What You Eat: The Plan That Will Change Your Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Gillian Mckeith
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
Buy Used: £14.71
Avg. Customer Rating:  113 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.9 x 0.6
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
ASIN: B000P29HY8
Publication Date: March 28, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Who needs this at all? September 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Look, it's really straight-forward. Eat fewer and smaller portions of red/white meat, eat more fish (avoiding fried), eat more fruit and veg, drink more water and diluted fruit juice. Cut down on your dairy intake and (if you smoke) cut out the fags. Most importantly, get off of your backside more often and walk, climb more stairs, carry shopping bags instead of loading them into your (probably way overused) car.
You will end up far healthier and less confused and angry. With this book you will end up frustrated, confused and annoyingly out of pocket because you will have made a charlatan TV presenter even richer than she already is!
Mrs McKeith, we can do very well without you, Sweetie. Now, I'm off for a walk to the supermarket to buy some foodie items, with some great music in my phones. Happy eating! Jeez, I should be on TV....
JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE AUTHOR AND YOU CAN SEE HOW HEALTHY HER DIET IS!!! August 15, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
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
5 out of 7 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
2 out of 4 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
3 out of 5 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.
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