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| Authors: David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding
Publisher: Rodale Books
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Rating:  471 reviews
Sales Rank: 40
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 6.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1594868549
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9781594868542
ASIN: 1594868549
Publication Date: December 10, 2007
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 Very practical, helpful book January 10, 2008
telmar (Camp Hill, PA United States)
79 out of 88 found this review helpful
I really like the core message of this book... A year ago I started calorie counting but got sick of it very quickly, then I bought Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss: The Visual Program for Permanent Weight Loss which has a very similar strategy to this book's - showing you pictures of good and bad choices of similar styles or calorie counts.
From a year ago I've lost 35 lb, I'm basically at my ideal weight, and I haven't had the slightest bit of trouble keeping it off and I don't feel like I'm "dieting". In fact, I feel like I enjoy what I'm eating far more than ever before - I'm very impressed! I picked this book up because I'm pretty food-conscious now and I like to be aware of additional practical healthy choices.
What I like about this book compared to the Dr. Shapiro one is that it's extremely practical - at one point a Quarter Pounder is recommended as a "healthy" choice. I'd more or less agree with this approach; I think things like burgers can be healthy, filling options if you know what you're doing - whereas a Dr. Shapiro would have you eliminate all meat from your diet.
Where I think this book falls down a little bit is if you were trying to put together a mental "theme" of what to eat and what not to eat based on this book, you really couldn't. Sometimes shrimp is shown as a healthy option, sometimes it's not. Sometimes you're better off eating a turkey burger, sometimes you're not. It comes out after reading a bunch of suggestions that you shouldn't eat fries or mayo - but you still get the feeling that it's a bit potluck. The Dr. Shapiro book exaggerated the differences between good and bad foods to teach common patterns - this book just presents a bunch of data points and you need to find your own patterns. The Dr. Shapiro book focused primarily on calories - this one adds things like sodium which in my mind are usually not your first concern. I also find this book to be a little more annoyingly pseudoscientific, citing the results of some studies that sound like one-offs and talking about "foods that cure". Different target audience I guess.
After reading a few of these books you start to figure out your own patterns and make your own guidelines. Here are mine, which have worked wonders for me:
Don't eat anything fried - no french fries, fried chicken, potato chips, etc. Only rarely eat ice cream. Don't eat condiments that are bad for you and don't add that much to the experience: mayo, cheese, butter, oil. Don't eat pizza. Eat bread, pasta, and rice less often. Eat tons of seafood: fish, shrimp, etc. Don't feel like you need to avoid meat or burgers. Be extremely active with substituting off anything bad at restaurants. Splurge when it's worth it - i.e., when you have the opportunity to eat something really good. I don't forgo dessert after a really good restaurant meal. Seek out tons of healthier meals that you would honestly prefer eating over what you eat regularly now. Find a few healthy things you like at every restaurant you frequent. Have a wild guess of how many calories are in everything you eat, so you never sit down and eat a 4,000 calorie large pizza yourself :). Don't keep anything convenient that's unhealthy in the house.
Excellent, But Simple Resource for Everyone! December 19, 2007
delicateflower152 (Texas)
65 out of 75 found this review helpful
This little book is invaluable for anyone who travels or has to eat out frequently. It provides simple alternatives at popular eateries and allows the reader to make better selections. Its handy size will allow you to carry it with you in the car or in your briefcase. The colorful pictures and simple text make it useful for younger individuals who need to watch what they eat, but don't want to have to tell their friends they can't go to a particular fast-food joint because there are no good choices. This enables them to make better choices!
I did not give this book five stars because it is so simple. I would have found it helpful if there had been an appendix (text only) with the complete calorie, fat, etc. breakdowns of all the items on menus at the popular fast food restaurants. This would have been a great supplement to the more simple information presented in the main text. Nevertheless, this book should prove valuable to anyone who takes the information to heart and actually uses it.
 Get Real March 8, 2008
LKA Holistic Health (NY)
46 out of 89 found this review helpful
Subtitled `The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution,' "Eat This, Not That" is about as far from a diet solution as one can get. A more apt title for the book would have been "Don't Eat Any of This or That."
It is quite amazing that Zinczenko and Goulding, both editors at Men'sHealth Magazine, would stoop this low and promote fast food and packaged processed food as a solution to the diet woes in this country. Just because one bad food is lower in fat and calories than another bad food doesn't make it healthier or appropriate for weight loss. After Gary Taubes' autumn 2007 entry "Good Calories, Bad Calories," which smashes the wisdom of low-fat diets, it's clear that the dynamic duo from Men'sHealth are still stuck in an old paradigm of low-fat-at-all-costs and sugar-is-better-because-it-has-less-calories. The `calories in, calories out' theory just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
"Eat This, Not That" feeds into people's desire to have their cake and eat it too. When so-called "experts" offer up this kind of blather, a willing public is happy to have sanction to continue their bad habits without solving anything. The book will have been bought and paid for long before the discovery that this is once again just another hoax. If the folks over at Rodale really want to encourage the health and well being of this country they will take a more responsible stand on how to attain this. Selling out is not the answer.
The cultures around the world that stay naturally slim and healthy without having to resort to diets have several factors in common, the most important being that they eat little to no fast food and packaged, processed food. If we have our way, that will all change - we've been exporting our unhealthy way of life for years and it's starting to take hold in countries that until now had far lower rates of obesity and the lifestyle ailments connected to industrialization, like diabetes, and other chronic inflammatory diseases.
If we think eating junk food is a firmly established way of life and that we're better off picking the lesser of two evils, as "Eat This, Not That" implies, then we have totally lost our way and need a course correction immediately. The road to a slimmer and healthier you is to eat food mostly in it's natural state - fresh, whole, and of the highest quality available; anything less than that is a fool's game.
 Fun and informative December 11, 2007
Food Fan
38 out of 43 found this review helpful
This book sorts through good and bad foods and explains it all using great pictures. It's easy to read, and compact enough to go with you to the store or restaurant...
A helpful guide for cheaters December 28, 2007
c20 (Oakland, CA, USA)
27 out of 31 found this review helpful
First of all, go to www.menshealth.com/eatthis/ for a sample of what you will find in this book. Their preview of the book is almost half of the stuff you will find in the actual book and it's structured about the same, so you can decide if you should still need to buy it (which you should because there's so much good advice in here)
Second, if you're serious about "dieting" or a lifestyle change, you shouldn't be eating too much of these foods anyways. However, if you love going out and you're tired of salads, this guidebook provides a lot of swaps you should try. There are many different types of chain restaurants so whereever you go, this book should be able to give you tips. There's examples from "healthier" places like Subway to those places that even if you swap out for a "healthier" item, you're still killing your diet, like Krispy Kreme.
There are 2 sections that I found helpful that was not available online - the drink section and the menu interpretations. I love coffee and beer. I can drink the occasional coffee and I cheat sometimes with beer. Upon reading the page about beer, it turns out my beloved Samuel Adams is listed under "Not that" and it highly recommends Beck's Light.
My favorite section of the book is the menu interpretations. We won't always be going to KFC, Subway, Chili's, etc and Dave knows this. He has listed sample menus from your run-of-the-mill taqueria, steakhouse, bbq joint, even sushiya! In each menu, it tells you what to eat and what to avoid!!
This book is just so helpful when you go out and it's advice will help you somewhat stay on your diet and still have fun. Just don't go overboard and think it's now okay to eat these items all the time.
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