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Savvy Eating for the Whole Family: Whole Foods, Whole Family, Whole Life (Capital's Savvy) (Capital Ideas)

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FINALLY, a guide to healthy eating that is NOT a fad diet book! Dr. Kocsis writes in a warm, friendly, everyday style that makes it seems as if she is right there coaching you on how to adopt her simple approach to eating better. Her explanations of nutritional facts and functions are straightforward and enlightening. And her good humor and commonsense attitude give us permission to be flexible in incorporating her advice. You get the sense that she would not scold you if you succumbed to a craving for an occasional "naughty" food. In other words, her down-to-earth approach lays out doable methods for painlessly altering your lifestyle and eating habits. As a bonus, the recipes Dr. Kocsis shares are delicious and easy to prepare. Finally, although the title references families, this book is not just for families with young children; rather, it offers cogent, germane information and advice for all people, younger and older alike.

i am trying to make some healthful changes in my home, and this book was recommended to me as a beginnners guide. I learned so much! the information is clear and helpful, and also realistic. i always considered myself "healthy" but now i know better. this book has so much BASIC information about our bodies and nutrition that i never understood, and explains them well. no fads, no made up info. just pure fact. the recipes at the end are quite good, too.

I really appreciated this book and the advice it gives on how to ingrain good eating habits in your children. Perfect for anyone with picky kids.

I found this book to be a very good introduction to establishing healthy eating habits. Her advice related to offering new foods to children sounds practical and do-able. A number of recipes are included, which are designed with the busy family in mind, and provide a good foundation for inexperienced cooks to introduce whole foods into the diet.

This is a great book that covers a wide range of topics - from the nutritional basics to menu planning. Anyone who has had children who are picky eaters will appreciate the special attention devoted to this area. A number of excellent and easy recipes are included.

This will be the first book I can recall ever returning to Amazon. For readers already interested in and educated about whole foods, this book will seem wildly out of sync with what you already know. For those just learning about whole foods, be forewarned: this is NOT what whole foods are all about! A quick scan of the book revealed one menu plan calling for microwaved, canned beans; a recommendation to substitute egg whites only for whole eggs if one simply must eat more than one egg per day; and "brown sugar" listed among the ingredients for a marinade. Whole foods should, as the name suggests, be eaten in their complete/WHOLE form--or as close to it as possible--and be subjected to as little processing as possible. For the examples I've cited, most whole food cookbooks/guides would call for dried beans, soaked and cooked slowly; WHOLE eggs in moderation; and honey or fruit juice for that marinade (brown sugar is nothing more than highly-refined white sugar with molasses added back in for color and moisture).

I have no idea what makes Dr. Kocsis think her book has anything to do with whole foods, but I hope my review will warn away anyone who might mistake it for any such thing. There are far too many excellent books in print for people interested in whole foods to waste money on this one. If you want the real thing, look for titles by Sally Fallon (Morell), Cynthia Lair, Cybele Pascal, and Rebecca Wood.