Customer Reviews

Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight: The Negative Calorie Effect

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This is a common sense book. It's easy to follow, no measuring, counting calories. No eliminating breads like some other diets. I love my pasta and my bread. You can eat this all you want. I lost 10 pounds the first week. Basic concept: no meat, no dairy (except skim milk)

This book has drastically changed my life. I was suferring from migraine headaches and just by learning about the common trigger foods versus the safe foods helped me for life! I used to have a migraine headache almost every week, but since I have eliminated from my life Chocolate, Dairy products, Red meats COMPLETELY, as well as many more from the common trigger foods, I've lost 20 lbs, took vitamins, and have never, ever felt better! Thanks so much Dr. Barnard. I am a big advocate of this book for anyone who experiences physical pain.

I accidently found this book at the local library. In 5 months of following the book's guidelines, I lost 55 lbs!
I've tried just about every diet imaginable and this seems to be the only thing that works. I thought it was going to be a major sacrifice, but when you lose weight this quick, you realize that it really isn't and that it's worth it!
Everyone should read this book, even if you're not overweight. You'll look AND feel better!

I was so perplexed by the person below who gave this book only 1 star and implied that complex carbohydrates are bad and that people would "do better on a diet of lean meat", that I looked at her "other reviews". Among those reviews she gave a 5 star designation to a cookbook which she described herself in this way: "food fried in 6 inches of animal fat, lard or similar. TONS of butter, biscuits, gravy..." etc. She gave that book 5 stars. As for me, I may not be able to follow Dr. Barnard and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's diet advice exactly to every letter YET, but I find it a good goal to shoot for, I find the info very useful, people do tell me I look young for my age and I've been eating this sort of diet for 7 years now, and I will definitely take Dr. Barnard's health advice over that reviewer's anytime!

After reading Dr. Barnard's book, I changed my diet to only include the foods that he listed in the book. I lost 10 pounds in my first week alone. I feel great and have so much more energy. I don't even have any cravings for the old junk I was eating. Everytime I go to the grocery store, I take Dr. Barnard's book with me and if I forget whether or not I can buy a kind of food, I open up his book. I would recommend this book to anyone that needs to lose weight.

I loved this book. Dr. Barnard's writing style is very easy to read. The points made in the book made a lot of sense, and it was easy to follow. This isn't a fad diet, it's a change in the way you think about food - what you eat and why. You can't help but lose weight, and the best part was that you're never hungry - and the food just tastes great. Wow, the recipes were great. They were so easy to prepare, and no fancy ingredients. I found everything at my local grocery store. I tried many of the recipes, and liked them all. This book is definately a keeper.

I used to be 12 stone. I tried various diets to get my weght down, including the low carbohydrate diet.The only diet that worked is the one promoted in this book: namely a low fat vegan diet plus 30 minutes of exercise each day.
I got my weight down to 8 stone 11 pounds using the ideas in this book.
There is far more variety in my diet now than there was when I ate animal foods.

I found this book to be very helpful. After just having a baby and gaining close to 100 pounds, I was hopeless that I would ever get back to my pre-pregnancy weight, since January I have lose twenty three pounds just by following these guidelines. I am now starting to see the old me and it is extremely motivating.

This book should have been called, become a vegaterain and loose weight. Eat only raw veggies or cooked ones with no toppings except non fat dressing. You can eat as much as you want as long as it's vegetarian. There is no need to count calories on this diet. Don't have milk, eggs(not even egg whites), butter, oil(not even olive oil), nuts or anything else that tastes good and you WILL loose weight. It works but no need to buy the book this short summary should do the trick.

Foods don't cause you to lose weight. There's no secret. You do have to eat properly and get some exercise. No pill or tea or muscle contraption is going to help you to lose weight.

Dr. Barnard agrees that foods derived from animals and animal byproducts are one of the worst things you can eat. I have the feeling carnivors won't like this book because once you are set in your meat eating ways, it takes the force of an earthquake to change. Highly recommend this book to those open minded enough and/or desperate enough to lose weight without going hungry, and without having to follow dumb diets like the "peanut diet", the "Atkins diet", the "sushi diet", etc... There's also a lot of delicious recipes in the back of the book that are to die for.

Try something different, you may just like it.