The Seattle Sutton Solution: No Gimmicks [Hardcover]

Seattle Sutton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2004

This is the most helpful and unusual diet book you'll ever read. One hundred years of nutritional science and 72 years of a remarkable woman's extraordinary common sense combine to make available the right way to eat, the right way to lose weight, and an excellent guide to a happier life.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Seattle Sutton, R.N., B.S.N.--registered nurse, turned entrepreneur. She's the President and Founder of Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating, the revolutionary meal program that has swept the Chicago metropolitan area and captured national attention. Seattle Sutton was born in Gackle, North Dakota and is a graduate of Jamestown College in Jamestown, North Dakota. She settled in Marseilles, Illinois, located about 70 miles southwest of Chicago. Her husband, the town physician, and Seattle, a registered nurse, provided nutritional information to patients who needed to lose weight or address health reasons. Ms. Sutton began designing healthy menus for patients.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Amicus Creative (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0975278401
• ISBN-13: 978-0975278406
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,835,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Solution? - plain common sense!, May 26, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Seattle Sutton Solution: No Gimmicks (Hardcover)

Seatle Sutton's book is a simple primer in the way things ought to be done. Her particular calling is "healthy food" but the principles she expounds would work in just about every business, every walk of life and everybody's existence. She is one of the last of those depression years survivors who learned the lessons of conservatism from her upbringing. However cliched those lessons are, there is a ringing honesty in the philosophies she puts forward. And applied to her brainchild, the "Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating" program, and the corporation that supports it nationwide, there is no finer, nor more appropriate message in today's morass of diet diatribe.
The book, in addition to having some stunning photographs - one is of her husband, Kelly with a foot-long open gash in his stomach - is writen in a primitive conversational style. She often dispenses with verbs in sentences but the overall effect is as if she were standing right there talking to you.
This may be a book on the birth and evolution of a "diet plan" interwoven with a unique woman's life, but the "diet" part is so basic and natural it seems wierd to have to write a book to explain it. It's probably a sad comment on the state of the civilized world that we have to study a book to learn how to be and act "normal." This doesn't mean this work is superfluous, by any means - exactly the opposite. The more people sign on to Seattle's diet and philosophies, the better this world will be.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars just wasn't what I was looking for.., May 16, 2007

By 

K. Skow - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Seattle Sutton Solution: No Gimmicks (Hardcover)

I was looking for recipes, menu ideas to follow that are simular to The Seattle Sutton program that my mother is using. Instead this book felt like testimonials to encourage the reader to enroll in her delivery/take home program (more than 100 dollars per week, per person!) Maybe an entertaining read if you enjoy family history/heritage as it does have plenty of family stories, however, from a diet book perspective, I just wasn't impressed.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down!, May 31, 2004

By 

Andy C. Moore (Tampa Bay, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Seattle Sutton Solution: No Gimmicks (Hardcover)

This is a great book full of wisdom and insight from someone who has "been through it all". I was gripped by Seattle's life growing up with tough times in North Dakota and becoming a successful bisnesswoman in today's world. There is tons of advise for just about anyone going through any situation. Very insperational!