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5.0 out of 5 stars
We chose it for our "Let's all read the same book" project., November 20, 2003
Review for Amazon Healthy U of Delmarva recently selected The Way to Eat as the book we would use for our "Let's all read the same health book" program and also, this book won our $1000 award for the Best Lifestyles Improvement Book. If you're considering buying The Way to Eat, you might enjoy knowin what went into selecting this book out of all the hundreds of diet and exercise books that are out there. For a start, we were a little skeptical about all the currently popular diet books. We are aware of studies that show that even though virtually all of the popular diet books will enable you to lose weight initially, a year after starting their diet, you'll almost certainly have gained all the weight back and then some. We wanted a book that would give readers the best chance at long term, healthy weight control, and that meant the book we selected would have to be one that took into account the kinds of diets that actually work long term. What you're about to read isn't the biggest reason we chose the Way to Eat but we were impressed by the fact that this book is based on a review of literally thousands of long term studies on which diets really work. In addition to wanting a book that had the best chance of achieving what it aimed at, we were also looking for a book that is scientifically sound, one that was written by someone with true medical and scientific credentials. Dr. Katz is a medical doctor, a scientist, and a professor at the Yale University Medical School. He wrote the technical book on nutrition that your doctor may be using as a reference book. The book we selected also had to pass yet another screen, once our committee of librarians and physicians were satisfied that the book would be reliable and scientifically sound: the book would have to be written in a popular style. Dr. Katz writes the nutrition column for Oprah's O Magazine, so he has experience writing in a popular style. Our county librarians agreed that The Way to Eat was written in a clear, accessible and reader-friendly style. We recommended The Way to Eat to the 156,000 people in the Tri-County area that Healthy U serves because it scored the highest among the dozens of books that our local librarians and physicians reviewed. They felt that it had the greatest chance of helping people improve their lifestyles, that the author had credentials that they would trust, and that it was written in a people-friendly style. If you want a book that can make a difference in your health and your family's health as well, Healthy U of Delmarva recommends this book. Why not use this book for your area's "Let's all read the same book" program? E-mail me and I'll tell you how we did it.
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