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Beyond the fad weight-loss diets, beyond the bodybuilding mythology about excessive amounts of protein for making muscle, beyond the nonsense that circulates about nutrition in the world today, there is a body of scientific knowledge that shows us a road map to our goals. For example, Susan Kleiner shares a formula to determine exactly how much protein the bodies of strength trainers and bodybuilders can use before storing the extra as fat, why amino-acid supplements are a very expensive and somewhat inferior substitute for simple foods such as yogurt and chicken, and why carbohydrates, not protein, are the most important nutrients for muscle building. Many of the recommendations seem so simple--"eat fruits and vegetables," for example--but Power Eating shows us that sometimes the oldest advice in the world is perfectly aligned with modern nutritional science, whereas the complex solutions dreamed up by bodybuilding gurus and supplement manufacturers don't always stand up to rigorous analysis.
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No other nutrition program will enable you to gain muscle and power--while trimming body fat--more effectively than Power Eating, the leading plan for power athletes, strength trainers, and bodybuilders.
Authored by a consultant to NFL and NBA players and world-class bodybuilders, Power Eating combines the most up-to-date scientific and practical advice to address the unique nutritional requirements of the power athlete. The result is an approach that has helped thousands of athletes reach their physique and performance goals--safely and legally.
This third edition incorporates the latest nutrition principles and recommendations, specifically addressing and dispelling the myths about carbohydrate and its role in a power athlete's diet. A revised supplement rating system incorporates new IOC rules and makes the latest findings on vitamins and minerals, muscle-building products, and performance-related herbs easier to find. And the inclusion of more recipes and meal plans will provide greater variety for athletes on specialized eating plans.
Incorporate the Power Eating plan into your training and find out what thousands of athletes already know. Power Eating is more than a book. It's a path to power excellence.
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Best book on nutrition for strength trainers.......2007-05-15
This is by far the best book I've ever read on how to eat as a strength trainer to maximize your results. It explains the whys and hows and proceeds to teach you how to build your own customized eating plan. Excellent!
Basic Nutrition.......2007-04-09
Learn basic nutrition from a registered dietician. These tips will help you realize your fitness goals. Be sure to check out the diet templates included.
good info.......2007-02-01
I like it but I still prefer Micheal Colgan point of view in is book! Optimum Sports Nutrition
Dr. Kleiner is here to beat us with the nutrition stick until we eat our carrots.......2006-02-08
This is a book on sports nutrition written by a dietician. Dieticians write boring books, and this is no exception. Dieticians are also limited in their views... the US RDA, the Food Pyramid and Food Groups, the Food Exchange program... the holy scripture of nutrition. I imagine if a rogue registered dietician differs widely from the party line, the other dieticians form a lynch mob.
In reading this book, you will get;
A basic description of what carbs, fat, protein, and water do in the body, as well as recommended amounts.
A really tedious description of what each vitamin and mineral does, and the importance and function of antioxidants.
A discussion of common supplements, and why the people who take them are suckers... with the exception of creatine and post-workout carb/protein drinks.
Some discussion of the different nutritional needs of strength and endurance atheletes are discussed, and scientific studies are cited.
A few pages are devoted to diet planning, but drift off into incoherence and smoothie recipes before addressing how to create a diet plan (The really hard part of eating right).
Some notable things were missing... the right ratio of essential fatty acids to promote health (a 5 to 1 ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6's), and the differences between absorbtion rates of different carbohydrates and why you should care (the Glycogen Index).
Great Information!.......2003-12-28
For the seasoned nutrition professional or the everyday exerciser, this book provides sound information which can help you realize your goals. The information in this book is not drastic, new, or difficult to comprehend, but generally overlooked for more cool and hip fad diets. There's a reason why information such as this has always been there and always will, simply because it works.
Even if you aren't trying to manage weight for a sport but rather just for health, general fitness, or anything, this book gives you a good template to work with to realize your goal.
However, this book can be a bit of a drag if you're not really into nutrition and fitness. Despite this, the diet templates alone are really worth the price of the book. I still say get the book and read it.
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The definitive guide to eating well and staying healthy with diabetes
"Nutrition is pivotal to diabetes care. This book is a terrific tool for managing diabetes through good nutrition. It's a guide you can use every day-a treasure chest of advice on how to eat healthfully."
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From the American Dietetic Association comes this authoritative guide to choosing foods to control your blood sugar and maintain an active, healthy lifestyle. It provides the must-know basics of daily diabetes care-from designing a food plan and preventing low blood glucose levels to losing weight and carbohydrate counting-so you can personalize diabetes and food decisions to fit your needs. You'll see how to manage blood fat levels and blood pressure-an important part of diabetes care-and gain invaluable insight into making healthy food choices and planning tasty meals. You'll also find tips on reducing sugar and fat in foods; quick and easy meal ideas; and a special section on prevention of type 2 diabetes.
- Detailed menu plans for daily caloric levels of 1,200, 1,500, 1,800, 2,000, and 2,500 calories
- Includes fast-food restaurant and ethnic food guides
- Ratings for high, low, and moderate glycemic index foods
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An excellent resource.......2007-10-06
This book stands out from others because goes beyond just telling you WHAT to do to manage your diabetes, it also tells you the WHY. By helping you understand the reasoning behind dietary and exercise guidelines, the author gives you the knowledge you need to make intelligent decisions when presented with situations not covered by guidelines alone. She seems to understand that everything isn't always black and white in life, and you have to make choices based on many factors.
I'm newly diagnosed. Since I'm not on any medications (and hope to keep it that way for as long as possible), the two tools I have to manage my diabetes are exercise and diet. This book addresses the diet aspect very well, while touching on the importance of exercise. It's not a scientific text, so it doesn't go into excruciating detail. It's an easy read. She helps you understand how the body works without diabetes, and then explains what happens differently when you have diabetes. You'll come to understand how different foods affect your blood glucose level - and WHY. Which allows you to understand and develop your own meal plan if you don't have access to a nutritionist. If you do, you'll better understand why your nutritionist makes the recommendations she does, and you will have the knowledge to discuss various options with her.
This may not be the first thing you want to read if you've just discovered you need to live in a way that manages your blood glucose levels. There are higher level overview books; educational websites run by the Joslin Center or American Diabetes Association; or better yet, diabetes management programs taught by diabetes educators and nutritionists at most local hospital that will give you a solid foundation. Ask your doctor about local programs if he hasn't recommended it to you already.
With that knowledge under your belt, this is an excellent book to take you down to the next level of detail.
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Insatiable is an astonishingly moving story of four teenage girls whose shame, fear and confusion compel them to binge, purge and refuse to eat in misguided attempts to feel safe and in control of their lives. This incredible, imaginative story, written in episodic format, is based on real case histories and tells a true-to-life story through character-driven vignettes. Insatiable will envelop readers in the personal and seemingly tangible worlds of each of the main characters. What makes this novel so forceful and vibrant is the way Eliot weaves her story through dynamics that inform these friendships and the therapy that helps them address their pain and fears. For every teen trapped in this seemingly endless cycle, and those who simply enjoy reading about real life issues (i.e. teen bestsellers Speak and Smack), Insatiable is a must-read.
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Tries, doesn't quite deliver........2006-09-21
Eve Eliot, Insatiable (HCI Teens, 2001)
Eve Eliot has done something that few, if any, other authors who write about eating disorders have done: she considered the fat kid.
I mean, think about it. We're constantly hearing that childhood obesity is an epidemic in the United States, and the diet book industry has gone through the roof in the past couple of decades. (Would that I'd written The Eat Your Weight in Bushes and Slim Down! diet book five years ago. I'd be rich.) And yet every book I've picked up dealing with childhood eating disorders is preoccupied with anorexia and bulimia. One might call it an obsession, even. Books on eating disorders, as a rule, do not talk about childhood obesity.
Eliot feels the pull, though. Anorexia and bulimia is sexy, from the perspective of addressing eating disorders. And three-quarters of Eliot's main characters fall solidly into the anorexia/bulimia camp, and those three, as one would expect, get much of the screen time here (and more of the drama). But at least we have Phoebe, the smart, popular girl who cannot stop eating. And her presence in this book alone, let alone the fact that certain chapters of the book focus on her, raises the book a couple of notches by itself.
Eliot gives us the story (thinly-veiled nonfiction, I'd expect; Publisher's Weekly calls it "a work of fiction based on actual case histories," which I assume means it's got more truthiness than, say, a James Frey book) of four teenagers who all have eating problems. They also have a few side-effect-style problems (one character is a cutter, though the actual descriptions of cutting and its psychological effects sound more like they were absorbed from a psych journal instead of direct experience), but the eating disorders take center stage.
There's a lot of potential here, but much of the time, I wasn't sure under what it was hiding. The dialogue tends to flatness, the characters to steretypical actions (though they are well-drawn, especially for a book based on case histories), and the whole thing seems dated thanks to the details on which Eliot chose to focus in places, especially clothing and hairstyles. But Eliot does rise up from the mundane every once in a while, and when she does, this becomes a fascinating little work. Most of these times are when the girls are at their worst and give in to whatever desire each happens to be fighting. When Eliot's writing the bad stuff, she really takes off. It's the connective tissue in between that could have used some work.
But still, she considered the fat girl. And that's worth checking out, for its rarity if nothing else. ** ½
annoying.......2006-03-27
Okay, I haven't finished reading this book. So far it's just getting on my nerves with all of the stupid dialogue, flat, boring characters, and horrible writing.
I also noticed that the author's favorite color seems to be green for most things she describes are green (i.e., green shirt, green couch, lime green hair thing, etc). And that's getting on my nerves.
Seriously, like some people have mentioned, the dialogue in this book is unrealistic. Someone else stated that the author is trying too hard and I agree.
Someone else stated that this book is triggering and I agree. It made me want to eat like the fat girl. And not eat like the anorexic smoker.
This book is weird and it sucks and I'm not even halfway done with it. The author gets repetitive with the bulimic's OCD about cleaning her room and looking at zebras and the fat one wanting to be skinny like the anorexic smoker.
Don't bother with this book. It's a waste.
Insatiable.......2005-09-30
This book got off to a fairly good start; the situations are catching. However, I think that the author tried to include a little too much. Jessica-anorexic AND a smoker; Hannah-bulimic AND dealing with being an asexual lesbian; Samantha-anorexic AND a cutter, and so on, and also in making Phoebe, the friendly, intelligent binger, and Jessica, her polar opposite (a cold, rather empty-headed anorexic) her best friend. The ending was also very predictable in the way things worked out: one by one three of the four girls start therapy, then the fourth one dies. It's rather unrealistic. Too many eating-disorder books end in Therapy Happily Ever After.
The scenes in which each girl succumbed to her disorder were fairly thrilling and very well written. The thoughts were absorbing and you could really identify with them, even if you had never felt them before, as when I read about Hannah throwing up. Eliot captured in great detail the gist of each disorder and the forced lifestyle that follows, but I think she's too into happy endings.
This book makes you want to starve yourself.......2005-04-15
I think that people should stop writing books on Anorexia, Bulimia and Cutting because it only drives you to do it.
While reading this book I myself suffer from being a Cutter and a Bulimic, every time Samantha cut herself it made me want to cut, every time Hannah made herself throw up I wanted to make myself throw up, every time Phoebe went into the kitchen to fill up on milk, cookies, ice cream and pie, it made me want to do the same thing, and every time Jessica starved her self for food it made me want to starve myself.
If your Anorexic, Bulimic or a Cutter you shouldn't read this book because it doesn't help you at all it only inspires you to harm yourself even more.
This was a good book but it has some bad effects.
Insatiable .......2004-12-08
By: Nicole Rojas ISBN 1558748180 Image coming home every day with that one felling that you are fat? With that felling that you could any day grow up to be a big and plump. The sad part about this may be that felling inside your self but the even worse part about it that hundreds and thousands of teens around the world feel this way about their body. Teens with Anorexia and Bulimia aren't really self-confident about their body image. They could be the skinniest people in the world and yet they are hurt by food. This is all learned in the book Insatiable by: Eve Eliot
Jessica, Hannah, Samantha, and Phoebe are all four girls with the same sort of problems having to deal with food. Hannah, who is the one in the book that throws up, deals with her mothers death and pretty much blames it on herself for the loose of her mother. She does eat but the thing that she has is Bulimia. Where you throw-up right after your eat. It is a though she has these cravings for food but once she gobbles them all down she purges. Samantha, a blond cheerleader is another character in the book. Samantha faces the trouble of Anorexia and is dealt with her boyfriend dumping her because of her Anorexia he is scared to know what might happen if he continues the relation ship any longer. Jessica who is also friends with Phoebe in the book consist of cutting her se......Phoebe is a normal girl who's father stress her out on about her weight. Her father thinks that Phoebe should start to look more like the young ladies and teens he photographs. In the book Phoebe feels as though she cannot do any thing about it. What do Phoebe learn once Jessica dies? You'll have to read to find out!
It is a very hart thumping book that will have you go to the edge of your seat. With in every chapter there is a problem. This book was very interesting to read and I think that most teenage girls will really enjoy this book. All of them dealt the same subject but in different issues. It is worth reading and the cool thing about it is that most of the stuff are facts since the author is a therapist with eating disordered teens.
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Worth Every penny!.......2002-05-01
I love this book. It is an enjoyable read in addition to a great reference tool. I use it on an almost daily basis. It is a great place to find ways of improving your diet, finding healthy recipies, or just looking for something new and interesting to snack on. I have shown this book to several people and they have immediately ordered their own copies. Buy it - use it - you won't regret it.
A "user friendly" guide to nutrition.......2001-07-22
Maximum Food Power for Women taught me how to make positive changes in my eating habits that I can actually live with. Not only does it tell the reader which foods to eat, but it provides sample menus and recipes to incorporate these foods into your daily life. Reading the book actually motivated me to change my eating habits, and the recipes are so good, that my whole family is eating healthier. I keep going back and reading; learning more and getting more excited about good health and nutrition.
Maximum Food Power for Women.......2001-02-06
This is the best book I have ever read and used daily. It has a wealth of information about how to eat sensibly and how to incorporate all of the healthy power foods into your diet without denying yourself. It has gotten me on track with my eating habits and exercise. Whenever I want a healthy meal or snack I just open this book! I keep it right on my end table so I can consult it daily. I love it so much and find it so helpful, I am purchasing one for my Mother! You can't go wrong with this book!
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PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "[Janov's] work is potentially among the most important research in any field over the past century. It could possibly offer more relief from suffering that any other treatment." —Dr. Geoffrey Carr, Professor and Clinical Associate, Simon Fraser University
"Dr. Janov is the discoverer of a remarkable feeling therapy that taps into the feeling side of the brain." —Dr. David A Goodman, Director of the Newport Neuroscience Center
BOOK DESCRIPTION Neuroscience and psychology—two fields which should complement each other in the treatment of mental health problems—have taken widely divergent paths. While neurologists work to find the answer to the human condition in minuscule neurons, psychologists study behavior to the exclusion of the brain itself. Primal Healing at last bridges the gaps between neuroscience and psychology.
Dr. Janov's professional life changed in a single day when he heard an eerie scream welling up from the depths of a young man who was lying on the floor in therapy. In 1970, Dr. Janov published The Primal Scream, a major breakthrough and worldwide bestseller.
The culmination of more than 30 years of research in human psychology, Primal Healing clearly explains how, for true healing to occur, you must access the deepest levels of your brain, where imprinted memories and pain lie, and fully relive the primal experiences that drive your behavior.
Utilizing compelling case studies, Dr. Janov shows how the brain and nervous system can be imprinted by trauma during birth and early childhood, and how these imprinted memories give rise to all manner of physical and mental dysfunction. When you are able to access these subconscious memories, you can liberate yourself and improve your health.
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Highly recommended.......2007-09-07
As a former client I can attest that the therapy works as described in this book. It is another attempt by Arthur Janov to explain the process of primal therapy. The book is well written but it does still take a leap of imagination by the reader since it can't compare with the understanding which comes from engaging in the actual healing process
i' not so sure.......2007-06-09
i have researched this therapy, and Dr Janov has not done any serious scientific research in neurology or other areas of psychology. the work that he has done has always to find some pseudoscientific data to explain with his untestable theory. This is terrible, and it is terrible that amazon allows his self written assertations of scientific validity in the description of the book.
Terrible, you should be ashamed, please research these things amazon.
I think Janov's book is too full of unscientific jumps of logic. Check out [...] it is explained well there. His assertion that it is only logical to pursue pain to reverse the effects of pain is simplistic. Even if it is true that in the forward direction, trauma causes psychological problems (true I think, and important), it does not neccessarily mean the reverse is obviously true - that to reexperience pain will lead to a joyful existence that resembles the joy of young children. In my experience, the results from primal therapy also shine doubt on Janov's assertions. It is a pity, because so much of the book is valuable and important, for example the emphasis of love, and the criticisms of robotically extinguishing behaviors with behaviorism (not all behaviorism is bad though) are all good. But Janov's theory is taken to the extremes in his books, and by his followers, spoiling the valid points that they make. For example, gentle births and avoiding birth traumas are noble and correct causes. However, claiming that ALL psychological problems may have birth trauma as the underlying cause is pushing it too far. Suggesting reliving birth over and over again will reverse the effects of birth is also getting wacky. (this is found more in Janovs books after 1971). Janovs works have a tendency to draw you in with true and emotional themes, but they take you too far into his single deterministic model, and get you beleiving in things that are not proven, and actually unlikely. His model of understanding fails in some circumstances (as do all the grand theories), and in some cases evidence exists that contradicts some of the theory (for example modern research on surgery suggested mammals do better WITH pain medication, in the Primal Scream Janov suggested avoiding pain meds wherever possible, something I thing he may now disagree with, but has made no formal retraction).
I would recommend learning about all the models in psychology to put this work in context, and look at all the recent data in the field 1990 to 2006. Despite Janov's attack on Freud, Primal is a derivative of Freudian work, with some of the similar problems and benefits that come from that model. The worst thing you could do is wrap yourself in a primal blanket, and think psychology's rejection of this work is somehow repressed or a conspiracy. Mainstream psychology would correctly argue that the evidence is mostly case study from a specific skewed population of Janov followers, at a specific time in their optimism and therapy cycle. Similar miraculous reports are found in spiritual healing practices, again with believer's testimony being emphasised and published when it is positive.
In addition, rememeber this work was written a long time ago, and the diatribe against other psychological treatments is out of date (and in part unfair even at the time). However some of the criticisms of other treatments were valid, and important.
Use scientific and critical thinking to make your own decisions about this work. It's not all wrong, if you have your wits about you and you filter the information, it could help fill your life with love and improve the life of your children. Janov is right, love is the most important thing is raising children, and he does a good job of defining love between an parent and child.
On the other hand, if you take all of it to heart, and to the extreme, and then go on to destroy all relations with your family, create false memories, and spend decades trying to cry, scream and holding your breath in birth primals, it might just spoil your life.
It could go either way, so think independently for yourself.
Consider too, I may be wrong, so look at all the data with a critical eye, and draw on all areas of psychological research for clues.
THE BEST BOOK EVER !.......2007-05-31
I truly feel that this book and the author should win a Nobel Prize for doing such a great act on earth. It is unfortunate that most psychology professionals will not concur with Primal theory, and for a very simple reason, it will mean that they have wasted their entire life seeking answers in a direction, where none exists. There is ONLY one answer to most ailments a human body suffers, it is Primal Healing !!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm Still Waiting For 'The Revolution!".......2007-05-20
Over 30 years ago Dr. Janov was of the belief that unless we had a "Real World" soon we would have no world at all. Well it is now 2007 and the last time I checked the world was still spinning on it's axis.This book contains the usual description of Dr. Janov's patients as being "Nurerotics" which has become somewhat tiresome after over 30 years. It is interesting to note that the author's focus seems to have shifted from his insistence of a "cure" to "healing". I'm thinking that maybe in 20 years time he will write a book titled "Maybe this will get you through the night". If your childhood memories consist of "Mommy why is Daddy so mean to me and how come he drinks so much?" then Dr. Janov claims to be the Man With The PLAN for you". Also if you ain't got the cash he also offers a Finance Plan although 30 years ago he condemned the rampant overspending of our Society. 5 Stars for his consistency if nothing else.
Brilliant. Comphrehensive. A revolution........2007-04-02
Why does Art Janov see what so many others ignore - what medical professionals choose to ignore? The hard science is all there. Over time, neurological studies and MRI studies increasingly corroborate the spectacular and eloquent theory which Janov first articulated more than 30 years ago.
Yet, the mainstream of clinical psychology marches on to the beat of a different and superficial drummer.
When will the mainstream madness quiet its dangerous mantras, and turn its glazed eyes toward solid science and a comprehensive, measurable model of consciousness?
And, when will the mainstream finally offer the afflicted patient a road to deep and lasting healing?
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This revised edition presents the latest information from the country's leading medical authorities, showing that food choices can improve your health. With the right foods you can lose weight permanently, without restrictive diets, prevent and even reverse heart disease, and reduce your chances of contracting many types of cancer.
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It is truly an inspirational book, and I highly recomend it........1999-11-02
The Power of Your Plate is one of the most inspirational books I have ever read concerning the detrimental effects on the body due to improper food choices. Dr. Neal D. Barnard, presedent of the physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, along with 20 health experts guide the reader through a journey geared towards better health by illuminating all sources of animal products from the plate. They help one realize how eating wisely is truly a gold mine attainable to us all. The relationship of diet and disease is viewed from different parts of the world to explain why Americans have such a high rate of cardio vascular disease, strokes, high blood pressure, cancer and more. Anyone who would like to live a full healthy life and avoid ailments that are common in America needs to read this book. It does not tell you to eat less. It explains how to eat right for the rest of your life. Unlike most diets, this is more of a plan, and following it will help insure you do not become a stastistic like most Americans eventially do. I have written a 15 page critique on this book. If you are interested, I will email you a copy.
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Sidney Mintz, a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University examines how foods such as sugar, alcohol, chocolate, and tea, once limited to the rich and powerful, became accessible to the general populace, and how companies such as Coca Cola gained international recognition--exporting their products to even the most remote regions of the world. In his final essay, "Eating American," Mintz discusses the nation's obsession with fitness and diet and our progressive weight gain. He also provides an apocalyptic view of the future--predicting a doubling of the nation's population by 2064, and a loss of more than 180 million acres of arable land through erosion and urbanization.
Book Description
Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.
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Sugar, power, class, and meaning.......2004-06-12
This is an uneven book of essays on the anthropology of food by the well-known anthropologist, Sidney Mintz. Like many anthropologists these days, Mintz interprets local cultural phenomena within a broader global context, but without losing track of their insider meanings.
Several of the essays in this book concentrate on things sweet--sugar and its predecessor, honey. Mintz traces the history of rising sugar consumption and ties its wider availablity to perceptions of increased social status by the working class that consumed this former luxury item. In the title essay, he proposes a relationship between cooking choices and a sense of freedom among Caribbean slaves. In another piece, Mintz explores symbolic links between sugar and perceptions of morality and naturalness.
Not all of the essays are equally successful. The "Introduction" and the title essay are the best, in my opinion. "The Conquest of Honey by Sucrose" is also intriguing. The last two essays, one on high and low cuisine and the other on American food, are a bit muddled. One of the best things in the book is totally non-academic. Mintz's wonderfully evocative preface about his father and his memories of food while growing up is a joy to read and almost worth the price of the book itself.
Underwhelming--best for undergrads.......2002-12-10
I enjoy Sidney Mintz' work quite a bit, though this book left me a bit underwhelmed. It in no way compares to his _Sweetness and Power_, which is a wonderful work. Instead, _Tasting Food_ offers some nice little essays. The title essay, on slave/creole cuisines of the Caribbean, is by far an away the best, and it is well worth reading. The other essays are just okay, or in the case of the last two (about national and American cuisines), quite bad. Nice, light reading as a complement to other anthropological writing about food. Carole Counihan's edited volumes are better.
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How often does a book come along that will change your life? The Surprising Power of Family Meals will. Digesting its information and implementing even a few of its helpful suggestions will benefit every member of your family in deep and lasting ways.
The Surprising Power of Family Meals is the first book to take a complete look at a ritual so common it flies beneath our radar screens. Virtually universal a generation ago, family supper has undergone a striking transformation. No longer honored by society as a time of day that must be set aside, some families see it as little more than a quaint relic. But others are beginning to recognize it as a lifeline – a way to connect with their loved ones on a regular basis and to get more enjoyment out of family life.
The Surprising Power of Family Meals presents stories, studies, and arguments from the fields of psychology, education, nutrition, family therapy, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and religion. It provides examples of families and communities around North America responding creatively to the pressures of a 24/7 world to incorporate memories of their own childhood meals and to share strategies for taking what is best from our past and transforming it to meet current needs.
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A great guide on how to revive family meals in your home.......2006-12-10
A number of studies in the last few years have noted the positive effects of families eating together. Weinstein includes these studies in her book. But the great thing about the Surprising Power Of Family Meals is that this author doesn't just tell you why family meals are important, she also includes practical ways to revive the practice of eating together.
For example, she notes that today's moms are busier than ever before, plates full with careers, children's schooling, extracurricular activities, volunteer work, etc. For many families, that translates into eating fast food even when they don't want to. But instead of tut-tutting this reality, she offers a solution: when you get takeout, don't just eat it in the car. Take 20 minutes to seat yourselves around a table at the restaurant and eat together. The blessing is in the company, not just the food itself.
This book is an excellent guide for modern-day families struggling to build ties amid busy schedules, competitive academics and the growing atomization of the family unit.
Explores the power of families eating together.......2005-10-25
This well written book focuses on the benefits of families eating together. The author's premise is individuals and society will greatly benefit if families would make a greater effort to spend time together at the dinner table. The book explores benefits of regular family meals for everyone, singles, married couples, but the main discussion is on families with children. I was fascinated by all the different ways eating together helped parents and especially children.
The author points out that over recent decades we have developed a greater tendency to be increasingly busy. We try to squeeze good things into every hour of our children's day, for example: piano lessons, soccer practice, karate, play dates, in addition to the normal things like school and homework. Over the last thirty years the amount of discretionary time children have has dropped from 40% to 25%. In addition to this, more families have both parents working, and there are more divorced families. These and other factors lead to fewer and fewer families eating together.
Some of the benefits of family meals made sense and almost seemed obvious. Many studies have found that "The more often children eat with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use illegal drugs." (page 215) If children have strong connections to their siblings and parents they have less need for artificial ways to make themselves feel better. Along the same lines, often during a meal discussion of the extended family comes up, this helps children to feel greater connectedness. They learn about ways that other family members gotten through hard times, and when they have stress they are much more likely to last without falling apart.
One surprising benefit was that children who ate regularly with their families had a much less incident of eating disorders. One of the causes of eating disorders is children don't learn to self regulate. If they don't see good behavior modeled they won't learn to listen to their body and only eat when they are hungry. So families that are always on the run, eating food from MacDonalds between activities, or even those at home who eat separately in front of a TV, the children grow up being out of balance with how they eat.
Another surprising benefit was that children learn how to read faster when they have regular meals with their family. The research indicates that children learn vocabulary while talking with their family, so they only have to figure out what word the letters are forming. Children who have a smaller vocabulary have to both learn what word the letters are forming and what the word means.
There were many more benefits the author found that come from regular family meals. At the start of the book the author says that in many ways regular family meals is almost like a magic bullet in that it solves a number of problems.
As a side note, I liked the feel of this book. The paper was a nice grade of paper, and the book was well bound.
There are many good things we can do in life. Some things are vital. After reading this book I am more convinced that having regular family meals is vital. If you read this book you'll probably come to a similar conclusion.
Product Description
HOW you eat is as important as WHAT you eat. Millions are suffering indigestion, obesity, fatigue, constipation, and physical, as well as mental diseases which can be greatly alleviated by the proper diet and most of all the WAY one eats. Power Eating Program:You Are How You Eat, by Lino Stanchich, L.N. and world renowned Macrobiotic Educator and author, provides the "Missing Key" to the optimum absorption and digestion of foods, no matter which foods you eat. Lino Stanchich's simple, yet powerful eating techniques, that he discovered and utilized while in a WWII concentration camp, saved his life and will create greater energy and health in your life. Learn how to practice this simple, no-cost method of eating which has been shown scientifically to increase vitality and immunity while reducing weight, indigestion, acid reflux, and fatigue. It is a book you can really sink your teeth into!
Book Description
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness, and family life that have contributed to the dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia in the United States since the 1970s. She describes how strategies including the meticulous measurement of patients' progress in terms of body weight and calories consumed ultimately feed the problem, not only reinforcing ideas about the regulation of women's bodies, but also fostering in many girls and women greater expertise in the formidable constellation of skills anorexia requires. At the same time, Gremillion shows how contradictions and struggles in treatment can help open up spaces for change.
Feeding Anorexia is based on fourteen months of ethnographic research in a small inpatient unit located in a major teaching and research hospital in the western United States. Gremillion attended group, family, and individual therapy sessions and medical staff meetings; ate meals with patients; and took part in outings and recreational activities. She also conducted over one hundred interviews-with patients, parents, staff, and clinicians. Among the issues she explores are the relationship between calorie-counting and the management of consumer desire; why the "typical" anorexic patient is middle-class and white; the extent to which power differentials among clinicians, staff, and patients model "anorexic families"; and the potential of narrative therapy to constructively reframe some of the problematic assumptions underlying more mainstream treatments.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......2005-08-11
With the surfeit of publications on eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa, from a psychological and biomedical standpoint Helen Gremillion's Feeding Anorexia is both a refreshing and much needed addition to the literature on eating disorders. Through observations of a small adolescent inpatient eating disorder unit in the Western United States Gremillion uses ethnography to deconstruct the many facets of the unit including interactions among the staff, clinicians, patients and their families. Her "outsider" perspective allows for a unique critique of the treatment facility she observed. Gremillion's distinctive approach is a shift from the traditional route of analyzing "patient pathology" she instead focuses on the patient as a player in a complex power structure. She convincingly argues that some treatment programs for anorexia, despite their best efforts, reinforce aspects of anorexia by adding to the societal pressures on young women that are shaped by gender, fitness, self-control, and family dynamics. Gremillion's analysis not only breaks down problematic aspects of mainstream treatment, but also provides a brief introduction to a possible solution narrative therapy. Narrative therapy uses metaphor to establish a rapport between the patient and anorexia, separating the person from the disease. This externalization of anorexia can help individuals discover anorexia's voice and reveal its evil intentions, thus helping sufferers distinguish anorexia's influences from their own will. Examining the individuals relationship with anorexia also allows the client and family to develop a sense of responsibility for the extent to which anorexia influences them and thus a sense of control over it. As both a student and someone who has personally dealt with anorexia I have gained a great deal from reading Feeding Anorexia. I now have a new understanding of the theories and applications of medical anthropology and I have a new perspective on anorexia as a whole. Before reading Feeding Anorexia I accepted the common belief that the poor response among individuals to therapies and treatments for anorexia was due to the nature of the disorder. Now I see a broader picture of both the disorder and the means by which it is treated. In addition I was inspired to learn more about narrative therapy. Feeding Anorexia is sure to be a catalyst for discussion and controversy. It has already made me personally question, critique and analyze my own experience and has caused my thirst to understand eating disorders to increase. As she states, "a critique of psychiatric approaches to anorexia does not imply a disgruntled acceptance of the psychiatric status quo, or mere criticism." Accordingly Feeding Anorexia has caused me to focus my efforts on advocating for new treatment models and awareness.
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