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Integrative Nutrition

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My name is Jennifer, and I'm a sugar addict! And I never would've realized it if it weren't for this book. The chapter on cravings really opened my eyes to the ways I was eating and how it affects me and my life. After finishing it, I went to my fridge and pantry--and everything I found in there, even healthy stuff I purchased at Whole Foods and the local organic market, were loaded with sugar! I couldn't believe it! Yogurt with 32 grams of sugar! Cereal with 25 grams of sugar! It's no wonder I was so high-strung and never able to concentrate or even sit still for a short period of time. I always thought I just had a minor case of Attention Deficit Disorder, but it turns out, no, I was just on a continuous sugar high! So I decided to take control of my sugar intake. Now, I read the packages of everything I buy, and do my best not to purchase anything with more than 10 grams of sugar, 5 or less is my goal though.

This book will make you take a good look at yourself and the way you're eating. It has awesome exercises at the end of each chapter that will help you see your eating habits and how they affect you. One of the first few chapters had an exercise where you keep track of what you eat for a couple weeks and make note of how hungry you were after you were finished eating and how hungry you were 2 hours later and it turns out, chicken is one of the only things that keeps me full for long periods of time. I was amazed!

Joshua Rosenthal's book Integrative Nutrition is the greatest present you could give yourself. It's the best present you can give anyone (I already gave a copy to my mom for her birthday!). If we all just stepped into our lives and the lives of those we care about and helped each other move in the healthy direction, then this country may have some hope after all.

I'm interested in eating more healthfully, and purchased this book from Amazon based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback. I normally do not review books here, but I was genuinely disappointed by this purchase and wanted to offer a few points of criticism for future buyers to consider.

I wouldn't have minded if the (considerable) preaching in this book was mostly regarding nutrition, but unfortunately, that was not the case. Paired with questionable editing (power statements were frequently repeated twice on the same page, and very peculiar usage/omission of punctuation), statements like "Wake up America" (not even "Wake up, America") were extremely grating to me. Rosenthal says that everything is nutrition, a claim that many experts make about their fields (be it biology, physics, probability, etc..), but never before have I seen someone take that claim so literally. If nutrition is everything and Rosenthal is an expert on nutrition, it must follow that he is an expert on everything, I suppose. Is it worth suggesting that sometimes marital problems (not poor nutrition) are the real reason you are in poor health? Sure, but I would not have purchased this book if I'd known that an entire chapter (1 of 11 total) was dedicated to assessing the health of one's relationships. Another of these few chapters is entirely dedicated to being your own person and not trying to fit in with the masses. Assuming the average reader of this book is not fourteen, the premise of a lot of this book was insulting to me. All I wanted from this book was a primer on how to feed myself better, but to get that information, I felt that I had to wade through a whole lot of rather high-handed motivational speaking.

While I admire Rosenthal's dedication to studying all dietary theories, I felt that this major theme of finding one's own path was seriously undermined by the testimonials of his students peppered throughout the book suggesting that the one true path is to attend the Center for Integrative Nutrition. Although this was hardly the only place in the book where anecdotal evidence was treated as empirical, these testimonials frequently made me feel like I was reading an advertisement for the school rather than a book intended to educate. And since this is a book I spent money on, I felt that this addition was unnecessary at best and exploitative at worst.

This is only the beginning of my many points of frustration regarding this purchase, but if you aren't put off by the above, I'd encourage you to give the book a try anyway. I gave it 3 stars as it did have good information and some illuminating commentary on why we eat the way that we do. In my case, I wish I had gone with another book and am surprised that the reviews for this one are so uniformly positive, when to me, the drawbacks were hardly subtle. Whatever book you buy, though, best of luck with your efforts to eat better!

This book does what no other book on the market is capable of doing. It empowers and inspires the reader without judgment or preaching that there is only one "diet". He addresses theories and nutrition without limitations or making the reader feel as though there is only one way to eat. He also successfully relates to the reader what so many other self proclaimed guru's fail to acknowledge, which is that it is about so much more than the food! Mr. Rosenthal also weaves a fair amount of inspirational stories of some of the amazing people who have trained under him.
Integrative Nutrition is a must read!

Joshua Rosenthal has written a comprehensive yet easy to understand book that tells the reader exactly why diets don't work!

Joshua goes beyond the hype of fad diet books to introduce readers to what really matters in life - finding healthful and nutritious foods that work for your body. This isn't a quick fix! You have to commit to learning and understanding your body, and to not be swept away by hype and false promises of quick and easy weight loss.

Joshua moves beyond the limits of restrictive diets, counting calories, and shame and deprivation that limit the success of most fad diets on the market today. Joshua teaches the reader how to love and nurture their body and soul, and mind, so that health is the only logical outcome.

Bravo! This book is a MUST read!

Joshua Rosenthal's book "Integrative Nutrition" is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to explore and discover the truth about giant food corporations and pharmaceutical companies and how they affect the American diet; the strengths and weaknesses of the popular diets in the market; the reasons why we should listen to our body when we crave for certain foods, the Mind Body Spirit connection, healthy recipes and much, much more. Great pictures,layout etc. A must have Nutrition Resource Book :-)

This book will clarify the mystery of what you should eat to feel and look great. This is the only book I have read on nutrition that explains cravings. Why do 'diets' fail? Because you have cravings! Joshua Rosenthal teaches you how to eat and live in a way that will significantly reduce your cravings. You will learn how to eat delicious, natural foods that nourish your body and soul. I learned from this book that being healthy goes far beyond the food on your plate - lifestyle plays a crucial role in being healthy. Buy this book if you want to really understand nutrition.

Joshua Rosenthal's book is a truthful, ground-breaking take on how nutrition directly affects overall health. He does not provide one solution to fix one problem. He illuminates on the fact that quality nutrition positively affects health. The layout, which is not only easy to read and understand, celebrates the simplicity of attaining good health while providing advice that will neither intimidate nor deter those who are not satisfied with just popping a multivitamin and forcing down a tasteless iceberg salad once a week. Use a sturdy bag because this book has weight. Literally.

Integrative Nutrition is the only book I know that brings together all aspects of health and happiness and really explains the importance of each one of them in achieving optimum health and loving our lives.

I've spent years wondering why some diets worked for me at certain times in my life and why some never did. I've always wondered why sometimes it has seemed so easy to be healthy and, at other times, so much more difficult. Integrative Nutrition has helped me to finally understand that all aspects of my life (my diet, exercise, relationships, spirituality and my career) are crucial components to the big picture of my health and happiness.

Thank you, Joshua, for opening my eyes and for helping us all to feel better, know ourselves better and live lives that we really love!

This book has great information, I do know a bit mjore than the average person about nutrition, and have been eating organic, non dairy, homepathics, more natural lifestyle since the 1980's but this book is a great help loaded with information I did not know. This is a great read for everyone. Once you pick it up you dont want to put it down.

If more people would read this book and take a more holistic approach to nutrition the obesity problem would be solved in the US. This is a beautiful and well written book.