Customer Reviews

Dr. Jensen's Guide to Body Chemistry & Nutrition

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This book is not a step by step guide to balancing your diet. It focuses on giving background information on all of the nutrients that a person needs, as well as detailed information on deficiencies and excesses of many body-building elements. It goes into great detail and gives lists of foods that are high in important nutrients. Brief in length, but still a great reference and general knowledge book.

Even if you are not dieting, it is an essential book to learn about the vitamin, minerals, foods that benefit your personal situation. I just wished it went deeper into each topic and was not so short. Definite quick read and valuable reference.

This is an insight into how the body works naturally to keep us healthy, but it is written so the lay person can follow easily. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a way to better their way of life and change their living and eating habits. After only a few weeks of implementing some of the recommendations in the book I can feel a slight change occurring within me for the better. Dr. Jensen has several other books that I since have purchased and read and highly recommend them all.

Dr. Jensen's work is unsurpassed. I have learned so much from him. All his books are extremely informative.

I have not read this book, I just skimmed some of the pages available thru Amazon's "Search Inside This Book," so my 3-star rating has to be taken with a grain of salt. In the section on Vitamin D, Jensen makes the statement, "There is no reason for anyone to take more than 400 IU per day." This line shocked me, given the almost weekly new acclamations from many reputable sources (AMA, JAMA, the Lancet, etc) for much higher doses -- around 2000 IU's per day for most people in higher latitudes (ie, north of SC roughly). Then I saw that the book came out in June 2000, 9 years ago. I wonder if Dr Jensen has changed his recommendation in the past year or 2. In any case, I would say that at least some of the info in this book is dated. I would look for Dr Jensen's later books rather than this one.