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The Optimum Nutrition Bible

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Having read this book from cover to cover, and now using it as a reference, it provides invaluable information about how to live a dramatically healthier life than you're used to.

This book does not just tell you what to eat, but why you should eat it. Consider what the human race ate before the chemical age, before processed foods and our taste buds were subjected to the sugar full foods of the 20th century.

This book explains why eating fresh (unprocessed) foods, preferably organic; taking vitamin and mineral supplements; eating the correct fats and cutting out unnecessary stimulates such as caffiene can make such a huge difference.

Having changed my eating habits and also, having started taking vitamins and mineral supplements, I can honestly say that the effect has been better than I ever expected.

I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Take the plunge, you may surprise yourself.

Labeling meat a bad food, Patrick Holford is clearly anti-meat in "Optimal Nutrition Bible". That's fine. However, Holford's poor treatment of the protein controversy needs deeper examination and placed me on guard as I read "Optimal Nutrition Bible". For example, his deduction regarding how much protein a person needs is scantily, if hardly justified.

The author quotes a US Olympic trainer that says a person can gain 8 pounds maximum of muscle in a year (even that number is controversial, by the way). OK that's fine. So, Holford deduces that a person can only gain 0.3 ounces of muscle a day. He adds muscle is only 22% protein. Fine. So how does Holford conclude that one only needs an extra quarter of a teaspoon a day of protein (above the RDA, this is not clear in the section) to obtain maximum muscle growth? Protein is not only utilized by the muscles- it's used all over the body. Even some bacteria are comprised of protein.

Several factors influence the digestion of protein. As a nutritional author, Holford should have addressed the possible loss or conversion of protein into fat or a carbohydrate. This all depends on when you eat the protein and what you consume along with the protein. He trivializes muscle building when it is actually quite a complex subject.

Otherwise, I found Holford's work to be worthy of a Nutrition library because it briefly and clearly covers several concerns related to nutrition. Just crack open the Table of Contents, and you can read his book in bits and pieces as needed.

Holford's vitamin and mineral lists, which include symptoms of nutritional shortages, allows the reader to create a nutritional program suitable to her own needs. In the spirit of Noixia, this book offered me a chance to discover something about myself that I did not know. I'm sure you'll likewise have nutritional epiphanies while reading. Just make sure you do your own health research as well.

I recomend this book to everyone that is conscerned about their health. I was required to purchase this book for my N.D. program and it was one of the best, effective health books I have ever read. I have lost 20lbs. and have been able to go off of my blood pressure medicine. In addition when I wake up in the morning I am full of vitality and energy. I feel good instead of feeling sluggish and worn down throughout the day. Anyone can feel this good with diet and nutrition alteration and this is just the book to show you how to transform your life and physical well-being.

I don't typically like self-help books, find them exploitative of our fears, but this one is unusual.

Following the author's suggestions, I lost the morning puffiness under my eyes, improved my mental acuity, (no more tip-of-the-tougne syndrome)and lost weight. These are all concrete differences not subjuct to conjecture.

What more could anyone ask?

You won't need another book on nutrition. This was my best investment for the year - a total guide to everything you need to know about eating properly. I have already started reaping the benefits of a healthier lifestyle - more energy, less stress, beautiful glowing skin. This is totally essential reading.

I've read dozens of food/lifestyle/vitamin/excercise/selfhelp books. The marvellous thing about this book is that it all comes together at last. The author explains so clearly with great diagnostic skills. Very helpful and very useful. A bible indeed.

Of course, many people would not regard this book as a 'Nutritional Bible', given its modest 342-paged volume. Still, a careful look at it reveals a lot.
This book left nothing to doubt with its expanded coverage on every aspect of human nutrition. Its information were abridged in most cases, but they are far-reaching enough. It did remind its (novice) audience that energy and nutritional requirements may vary depending on age, sex, and level of activity.
"The Optimum Nutrition Bible" used simple language to explain the manifestations of various nutritional disorders and deficiencies. It also described and classified nutrients in a way that any reader would follow.
This is not a classical text that should be reserved for medics: anybody can get along with its contents. In addition to sports personnel, I would advise patients with nutritional sensitivities: like diabetics, alcoholics, anorexia nervosa, etc., to pay closer attention to it. Its message is simple and clear; but above all, very useful.

Holford's book is very informative, and well researched. I found it to be educating, and up-to-date on all of the latest information that entail health, nutrition, and supplements.
I would highly recommend it for anyone that is interested in a natural approach for healthy living rather than the synthetic disease promoting medical system with the unethical/criminal pharmaceutical companies on its side that are solely invested in promoting illness in order to sell their $4.00 a pill poisons that kill over 100,000 people a year!!!!

I was given this book as a christmas present by my Grandad last year and at the time I was to grasp certain aspects of my Nutrition Diploma. However after reading this bible I was able to gain a better understanding of vitamins and minerals and also the importance of a balanced diet. Patrick Holford has really excelled in writting this book and as proved by the by the title it certainly is a BIBLE.

I was given this book as a christmas present by my Grandad last year and at the time I was to grasp certain aspects of my Nutrition Diploma. However after reading this bible I was able to gain a better understanding of vitamins and minerals and also the importance of a balanced diet. Patrick Holford has really excelled in writting this book and as proved by the by the title it certainly is a BIBLE.