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The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry |
Author: BRADLEY J. WILLCOX
Published: 2004-04-27 |
List price: $24.95
Our price: $8.00
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As of: November 22nd, 2008 07:11:22 AM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Interesting book if you're into nutrition
This is a very good book with good recipes. I think you need to be interested in nutrition and diet to find it a good read. However, considering the average American diet, perhaps it should be a required text in all high schools. Some of the recipes call for ingredients that are difficult to find unless you live in an area with a large Japanese population.
 No gimmicks, this works!
The concept of eating foods lower in energy density is something that I found out through Barbara Rolls excellent book, The Volumetrics Eating Plan. This is another great book that I would recommend in addition to the Okinawa Diet Plan, because it is full of great recipes for Western style tastes. It also includes energy density and a complete nutritional breakdown for each recipe. If you are following a plan like Weight Watchers, both books will fill you with ideas to make meal times more filling and more interesting.
Not all Soy is Created Equally
I'm no expert. But, I am Chinese. My family and I thrive on Asian-made soy products such as tofu. We are allergic to western-made soy products. If someone can provide a plausible reason for this, I would be most interested. (Except where those Asian-made soy products are imported from Communist China. I would recommend soy products from Taiwan. I am most concerned about unscrupulous manufacturing processes from Communist China.)
I cannot speak for soy products made here in the U.S. So, beware of all recommendations for or warnings against soy products. I believe not all soy is created equally.
A Research-Based Plan for Achieving Healthy Weight Loss
We are currently working on programs to help people achieve better health. Unlike most eating plans, the OK diet guidelines on based the latest research on the relationship between the types of foods eaten and the long term effects on health. Our test subjects have maintained lower LDL cholesterol and trigyclerides, healthy waist circumferences, and lower body fats for more than 1 year, by using our healthy eating and exercise programs, which are based on the guidelines recommended by the authors. I highly recommend both this book and their previous one, The Okinawa Program.
 Pseudo Science
What a morass of conflicting data! First it's this much soy, then that much. Then the 100 year olds are still in their prime because of an oil that was only invented in Canada 20 years ago.
What a sorry state that this book could even get printed much less reach popular status. Kaayla Daniel, author of THE WHOLE SOY STORY has written an excellent summary of the problems with this book here on Amazon as well as of THE CHINA STUDY, another sorry attempt to push a dietary agenda by "cooking statistics." While it's certainly good to eat your vegetables, be cautious about switching to a high soy diet based on pseudo scientific claims.
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