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In The End of Dieting, Joel Fuhrman M.D., a board–certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods, and #1 New York Times best-selling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity and The End of Diabetes, delivers a powerful paradigm-shifting audiobook that shows us how and why we never need to diet again.
Fuhrman says, “By reading this book, you will understand the key principles of the science of health, nutrition and weight loss. It will give you a simple and effective strategy to achieve – and maintain – an optimal weight without dieting for the rest of your life. This new approach will free you forever from a merry-go-round of diets and endless, tedious discussions about dieting strategies. This is the end of dieting.”
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Customers find the book provides useful information on nutrition. They say it’s a good diet plan for long-term weight loss without counting calories. The recipes are tasty and easy to follow. Many customers report feeling better and having more energy after following the diet. They mention that the food plan reduces pain and inflammation, and is associated with health and longevity.
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A. Friedman –
Same on-target Nutritarian wisdom: some new, much repeated
I’ve read dozens of nutrition books, and Dr Joel Fuhrman has become far & away my most trusted source. Read ANY of his books! Superimmunity is still my favorite. This one is more focused on weight loss (including psychological aspects) and slightly less specifically about the diseases of affluence that kill most of us, but it is more of the same facts & same message to eat copious quantities of greens & other whole vegetables, ample berries, nuts, seeds, & legumes, little or no animal products (even lowering his limits in this newest book), moderate INTACT whole grains, no sweeteners (caloric nor artificial), little or no processed foods, and zero trans fats. It’s not the macronutrients, but the micronutrients!In this latest book, I particularly liked his criticisms of other diets. He attacks the Atkins/Paleo crowd for too much animal protein and too few nuts, seeds, & beans–just what I felt about Good Calories Bad Calories and The Calorie Myth–although the latter acknowledges Fuhrman and follows his lead in pushing for large amounts of phytonutrient-rich non-starchy vegetables.In fact, Fuhrman covered every one of my concerns with Jonathan Bailor’s popular new (low carb high meat) book The Calorie Myth (which is still well worth reading AFTER Fuhrman). Bailor really pushes soy protein powders but here Fuhrman explains some concerns about protein powders (although not mentioning the hexane used in extraction).It may take 20+ years for the heightened levels of IGF-1 in Paleo dieters to surface as detectable cancer, but watch out! Fuhrman agrees with the low-carb concepts, but instead of falling into the meat trap, he incorporates low-carbs into a much broader health scenario (with protein from greens & beans). He still prefers algal supplements to fish for EPA & DHA, and he advises wild fish because of contaminants like dioxin in farmed fish.This time, he goes into a bit more detail about carbohydrates, soy isolates, meat, and especially dairy raising the IGF-1 hormone, resulting in fat, cancer, atherosclerosis, hypertension, aging, and any monster you care to name. Even the Calorie Restriction Society turns out to have significantly higher IGF-1 than vegans.Fuhrman attacks the anti-wheat crowd (Grain Brain & Wheat Belly) for confusing flour with intact grains. He attacks the USDA for just about everything–too much meat, dairy, & grain, not enough vegetables, nuts, & beans. (Really, it’s too much politics and corporate influence.) He attacks aspects of the Mediterranean diet (pasta & olive oil). He even politely indicts the China Study / vegan crowd for too little plant fat (avocado, coconut, olives, nuts, & seeds). He is right on target!Another topic now covered in a bit more detail is the danger of yo-yo dieting and how regained weight tends to be the more dangerous visceral fat (belly/organs) rather than subcutaneous fat.He reduces his acceptance of eggs on pg 146 stating, “a 23 percent increased death rate from those eating more than one egg a day”, but I’m pretty sure the death rate is 100% (just like taxes), even for vegans. Besides, if you divide us into ovophiles & ovophobes, the egg-eating crowd surely also consumes more pepperoni pizza & ice cream, so such correlations, the backbone of much nutritional advice, should not be swallowed too gullibly.(Fortunately) There’s nothing remarkably different from his other books, yet they’re all worth reading. In this one he adds further information, clarification, case histories, and recipes, and it’s at least as good as the others. Now he elevates the importance of raw onions & cooked mushrooms. He explains that onions must be chopped before cooking to break cell walls to release the alliinase enzyme for chemical conversions, just like the enzyme myrosinase in cruciferous vegies that converts glucosides to isothiocyanates. (My hypothesis, if you like your roasted garlic whole, [as with cruciferous] is to eat a little raw green onions with any cooked allium so that the alliinase enzyme is reintroduced.)Some reviewers complain that this book is just a repeat of prior books, and while it is mostly that, why not read this now instead of re-reading the older ones. Fuhrman is worth re-reading.Some reviewers object to the title because this is “yet another diet”, although it is more of an informed lifestyle. Of course you don’t count calories or watch the scale, but I also completely ignore the mentions of portion sizes, percentages, and schedules and just eat by the concepts (but do correlate your carbohydrate intake to the caloric demands anticipated after the meal). The title helps make this the perfect gift to several fad-diet yo-yo-weight friends for whom I hope it is The Last Diet. (But such a title might sound too fatal.)The appendix is a suitably cautious review of supplements, advising the possibility of a few like vitamins B12 & D but mostly warning of specific dangers, well in accord with advice in Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition and in The Vitamin D Solution. Iodine, zinc, and DHA are covered.Dr Fuhrman is a genuine healer, weaning people off of medications and into healthy lifestyles. He points out how detrimental our medical paradigm is, not only to our health but also to the nation’s economy–with diabesity and its direct costs already unprecedented in human history and slated to rise to astronomical proportions if we don’t quickly and radically change our paradigm from medical intervention to healthy eating. It’s amazing that most doctors don’t even know and won’t hear of his simple plant-based healings.Searching for any criticism of his principles, all I can muster is that he could say more about spices (see Healing Spices by Aggarwal), doesn’t mention circadian rhythms in relation to insulin & weight (see Lights Out, with reservations), and prefers “unnatural” (newly invented) algal extracts over my delicious salmon & herring as sources of EPA & DHA (in accord with The China Study crowd & lowering IGF-1). I can’t recall if he has ever discussed oxylate concerns (e.g. in spinach & almonds) or the goitrogenic (iodine depleting) properties of cruciferous vegetables. He distinguishes starchy from non-starchy (you can eat them raw) vegetables in The End of Diabetes, but I don’t recall reading it here, except in regards to potatoes. I’d also like him to discuss low-fructose versus high-fructose fruits, as incompletely mentioned in The Calorie Myth. Nor has he yet addressed my concerns about the benefits and detriments of coconut and its oil.These very minor “criticisms” are really “grasping at straws” because Fuhrman is more unassailable than any other nutritional advisor. Fuhrman is THE ONE to follow.I’m neither overweight, diabetic, nor ill, yet this book was a valuable read, as was his The End of Diabetes (most especially the chapter on legumes) and his Superimmunity.After Fuhrman, I also suggest reading Anticancer by Servan-Schreiber, Foods To Fight Cancer by Beliveau, Healthy At 100 by John Robbins, The Calorie Myth (but don’t eat his way), and the delightful new Death By Food Pyramid by Minger.Whether you choose this latest book or an earlier one, Fuhrman is your ticket to health wisdom. Then the real challenge is to implement it in your daily life, and he addresses that motivation in this book mostly through testimonials. To your health!8/14/14: I have added more, as a comment.
MerryL –
End of Dieting – Great Plan For Better Health
Dr. Fuhrman presents a nutrition plan, a life style change that truly can end dieting. There are more than 20 page of references indicating a tremendous amount of research went into this book. There are a lot of things I like about this book. The testimonials, the recommendations for how to get started, addressing the issue of food addiction and emotional eating, and the passionate argument for the need to make radical nutritional changes in the Standard American Diet to restore health in this country were great. Dr.Fuhrman in his public address seems to speak from the heart, and this book is written in the same way. It is easy reading and at times very entertaining. The science is there but it is never boring.There is enough flexibility in the program so that meat eaters like me can transition into eating less animal protein without going cold turkey. During the first week I didn’t feel hungry or deprived. Then there are the recipes, and the inspiration to make up your own dishes. I used a combination of three different kinds of beans, onions,spices, and added a small amount of lean ground round to make a large hot dish (yes I know the red meat is not recommended) to amount to less than 1 ounce of animal protein per day, and with the nuts,and seeds I felt satisfied. I can transition to lean ground turkey and maybe cut out meat completely in the future. Those beans made a great difference in my satiety. Breakfast for me was the Apple Pie Oatmeal or Fruit Salad, lunch was 1 cup of the bean hot dish with meat combination, and a big salad, dinner was a small salad saved back from lunch, and a generous stir fry including mushrooms, Bok Coy, Kale, Onions,Broccoli, Walnuts etc. I made an excellent Egg Plant Lasagne with egg plant,grated cabbage,grated carrot, onion,a small amount of cheese and tomato sauce. (There are a couple recipes that allow some cheese.) I tried the black bean brownie recipe. They were good even though I didn’t have the right food processor to chop the dates adequately. No hunger, no deprivation, and a great sense of well being are a plus. I feel this diet is sustainable, but for meat eaters, & junk and fast food junkies this way of eating must be approached with an open mind.I would recommend that if this dietary change is desired but seems difficult then transition slowly. The negative.. some of the ingredients are hard to find locally. Ingredients may have to be special ordered on line.I skip those and eat the things I can find. The other negative.. I wonder if it was actually necessary to attack many of the other diets since Dr Fuhrman’s program can stand on its own. One other plus.. an eight pound loss the first week.( Hopefully I can update this in the future)
MAESTRO –
Comme pour “Le Régime Fuhrman” en francais :Si vous voulez vivre sain et heureux, pour longues années,réparer les dommages accumulées, devenir et rester mince,suivez les conseils de Dr. Fuhrman. Ils sont basés sur desmilliers de recherches actuelles, et donnent des vrais resultats.Ce livre exist seulement en anglais actuellement.
Yoga girl –
I read about diet and nutrition all the time and Fuhrman is by far the best out there. His plan just makes sense and he has such solid evidence backing his plan. It can be a little hard following the first week, but after that you feel so much better. I used to have IBS symptoms and felt bloated and lethargic, but this has cured that and I feel great and know I am on the way to recovery. He says not to attempt to eat this way unless you are choosing it for life (cyclical dieting is very bad on you body), but I can attest that it tastes great and after the first week or two your toxic cravings and hunger goes away. I love that I can eat big meals as long as I follow his eating plan (lots of greens, beans, mushrooms, onions, cooked and raw vegetables and berries and seeds). The no snacking between meals was hard at first, but 2 weeks in and now it is not. He has great recipes and I do not feel deprived. It is so great to know what I put in my body is whole good food that is healing my cells and reversing disease. Don’t be duped into the high animal protein fads right now. You may lose some weight at first, but you are setting yourself up for disease. It is so nice to eat to live rather than live to eat.
Raquel –
I am big fan of Dr. Fuhrman. I have read some of his books, but I find this one very helpful on my way to become a healthy person. It is all explained in a very simple way and it really helps you to find the way with easy to follow steps. Highly recomended!
AM –
The nutritarian diet is the only one where I have consistently lost fat and felt healthy and satisfied. I also add animal protein, which is my personal preference, and this diet is flexible enough to do that. I particularly love the creative sauces and dressings that Dr Furhman has developed for this way of eating. They are unrivalled anywhere else. Iâve tried many plans, but this one is for me.
durgesh saxena –
Book is good with lots of vital information. This book require multiple reading to get whole picture clear.