Eat This and Live!
by Don Colbert, MD
Siloam Press, December 2008
ISBN: 978-1599795195
179 pages

In Eat This and Live! Dr. Don Colbert provides a road map to help you navigate this often treacherous territory. Presented in an easy-to-access four-color format that includes charts, sidebars, food recommendations, and nutritional tips, Eat This and Live! teaches readers what the Bible has to say about food and gives recommendations on which foods to eat heartily, eat in moderation, or avoid. Based on the key principles for healthy eating in Dr. Colbert's New York Times best seller, The Seven Pillars of Health, this practical guidebook to food includes "Dr. Colbert Approved" foods and restaurant menu choices.

I enjoyed holding this book in my hand. It’s the perfect size (could fit in my purse), it’s printed on extra thick paper (didn’t get dog-eared in said purse), and it has tons of colorful graphics, photos, charts, facts, tips, etc. It’s one of those books you can pull out of your purse and read in snatches (like while waiting for the kids to come to the car after school). Apart from its great look and feel, Eat This and Live! is a wealth of important information about our everyday food choices. But be warned; Dr. Colbert does set the bar (sometimes ridiculously) high when he writes of good and bad foods. Yet, if you love facts on health and nutrition, and you’re striving to eat a more healthful diet, then this book is definitely for you!

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The Maker's Diet for Weight Loss
by Jordan S. Rubin
Siloam Press 2009
ISBN: 978-1599795188
305 pages

Building on the principles of his New York Times best seller, The Maker's Diet, Jordan Rubin takes his nutritional strategies to a whole new level in this 16-week program designed to help you finally achieve your weight-loss goals. By addressing your whole person body, mind, emotions, and spirit, The Maker's Diet for Weight Loss will help you reach a weight that makes you look good and feel good about yourself as you...

• Eat for your body type, age, gender, and region
• Maximize nutrients while reducing calories
• Eliminate toxins inside and outside your body
• Learn the best ways to "cheat" without getting off track
• And much, much more!

Wow. This book is definitely not for dieting sissies. The Makers Diet for Weight Loss offers readers an “extreme makeover” from the inside and out. Rubin begins his book by making the case for eating only organic, non-processed, whole foods—and then goes on to spell out a well-planned, easily-understandable 16 week strategy for losing weight and cleansing the toxins from your body. The Makers Diet is over 300 pages long, and bursting with information about everything from good and bad foods, to overall health facts, to a quiz on “What’s Your Nutritional Type?" (I’m a “meat type” in case you’re interested.) I will say I found some of Rubin’s ideas extreme (there’s that word again), but for the person interested in a radical change in the way they think about, shop for, prepare, and eat food—this is the book for you.

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