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The Hay Diet Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Food Combining

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I initially got Kathryn Marsden's little book on Food Combining which is a great beginner (explainer). This one goes into much more detail but still keeps everything so simple. Once you learn the premise, you can honestly create or adjust every recipe you already have and use. This book also gave information about medical conditions that respond favorably when we stop mixing all foods together at the same time. This information could help keep you out of the doctors office. My friend with diabetes is thriving on this program. You could honestly have more time, money and health to do what you really enjoy!

I agree with the comments of the other reviewers however, I need something with more ideas. It seems very limiting and I have no variety with my diet. It also doesn't address certain areas. For one, salad dressings. It says you can use salad dressing but then it does not tell you what kinds, what it should or should not contain, whether certain dressings are better when you are eating carbohydrates or when you are eating protein. It just leaves some tables unturned. But it offers the fundamentals...a good place to start. Any suggestions for other sources?

While food combining rules can be very complicated this book simplifies them. It provides basic guidelines for neutral, acid and alkaline meals. It provides guidelines for starch and protein meals. It has general menu guidelines for preparing the different types of meals, sample menus for simple meals, and tables identifying foods by acid, alkaline or neutral characteristics. I have fewer digestive problems when I follow the guidelines and have gotten rid of some nagging digestive problems that have bothered me over the years. A great little book on a complicated subject.

Jackie Habgood's book The Hay Diet Made Easy is just that--an easy to read and understand book on the theory and practice of William H. Hay's food combining diet. While there are other books available, this is perhaps the best for someone new to method, as well as those who suffer from various ailments to which our esteemed medical establishment often turns a blind eye. The only drawback to Ms. Habgood's work is the actual layout of the sections: these tend to run together without a definite sense of division. However, whether for reference (her charts are great) or inspiration or learning, this book is truly the only book one would need to purchase.

I totally agree with the reviewer that said the sections tend to run together and aren't laid out real well. The information seems to come at you haphazardly. It reminds me of getting information second-hand from an aunt. One is always left wondering if she's remembering to explain it all.
I understood the Hay Diet before I read this book, and I think that may be a good thing. While the basic diet is shown in a single chart on page 12, it is so basic that I wonder if readers will understand. The really helpful chart is on page 98, which again breaks down the basic diet.
Chapters 2,3 and 4 are about using the diet to treat various ailments. While that may be true, I felt that the diet wasn't yet satisfactorily explained. Those chapters, it seems to me, should have been at the end of the book.
On the other hand, the book is chock-full of really practial advice for implementing the diet as a lifestyle. There are many menus, with an emphasis on creating your own menu ideas.
I suspect that I will refer to the book again and again as I search for more food ideas.

This book makes the hay Diet easy to understand and it really does help. I have had major allergy problems for years and when I stick to this diet and take some vitamins from my naturopath I feel fine. It gives recipes and examples of menu planning. Try it to improve your health!

The fact that this book was written in the UK, makes some of its language a bit foreign, however, it is still an informative book. Very direct presentation. No recipes, not much in the way of menus, but compared to The Food Combining Bible, it is, in my opinion, much easier to understand.

When I first heard of the Hay Diet, I thought it provided the ultimate answers to all the questions I had asked over many years of experience in practical eating but had never found elsewhere.
As a student of experimental science at various levels over a quarter of a century it always amazed me that we ordinary mortals daily shove virtually anything down our throats and never seem to worry if the items involved are compatible with one another or if combining them is conducive to good health.
Jackie Habgood's book recognises the sensible reality that all foods are not friendly to all others and she explains the basic theory of keeping proteins and carbohydrates apart and of the probable undesirable effects of not facing the facts.
But her book is a gem in turning the theory into an easily digestible programme for daily eating. A great book and a great buy.

The Hay Diet Made Easy is in english.... but not american. I think there are a few things that get's "lost in translation." The british slang was hard to follow. The writting style in this book does not "flow", I found it "choppy". But other than that.... It was informational.

The Hay Diet Made Easy was very informative and easy to read and understand how to combine your foods. There is so much information about food combining in this book. I liked the book. I can't express enough how easy it was to understand the way to combine your foods.