Eating Clean For Dummies

Great book. I'm trying to get healthy and eat cleaner food and this book is definitely my guidebook.

A helpful book. Very simple explanations. A little repetitive. SPOILER: I figured out eating clean was a good idea a few pages in. LOL

This book was really helpful in creating a new life diet. Makes you see the big picture while giving you the little steps for success!

Comprehensive. Essential for those who want to eat clean.

Note very easy to follow if I were a beginner

Great and easy to read! Simple for us dummies

Good book. Easy to read!

very informative great ideas

Received in poor condition

Came before due date,very happy

Very good book

'Fight disease and inflamation by eating clean.' That's a strong claim to make for any diet regime. As I've aged I've become more interested in protecting my health via my diet. I have osteoarthritis caused by an uneven gait from cerebral palsy and have noticed that restricting my food intake appears to improve my symptoms. This book is packed full of "facts" and interesting snippets, but I'm not sure of the validity of some of the statements. For example,over 80% of people who have osteoarthritis before the age of 50 will develop Type 2 diabetes. (Page 97).That's because it's excess weight that very often triggers both conditions.There's no direct link between the two and that isn't clearly stated. The paleo diet is recommended for people with osteoarthritis.Eating a paleo diet, with lean meat, vegetables, nuts and seeds will lower blood sugar and help to lose weight, which will help the arthritis. However the blood sugar diet advocated for reversing type 2 diabetes does this too.There is a lot of advice on taking various tests to check for this and that - the slightly controversial Kraft pre-diabetes test, for example.I did feel that interesting as some of the information from health research in the USA was, the book could have been made more valid for UK readers by leaving a lot of it out.What's the point in advising us to have tests that aren't generally available?Having laid out the fairly already well known advantages of a diet low in carbs and trans fats, unfortunately the recipes fall short for UK readers. It's not too difficult to convert cups to UK measurements in some of the recipes, but not all the ingredients are easy to find (What are wheat berries?) and you have to make a lot of adaptations.A 32 ounce box of vegetable stock, for example. That should be roughly one and a half pints on my reckoning, I haven't seen stock for sale in large boxes like that in the UK. The Dummies format doesn't suit cookbooks particularly well if you like to see what the food you are about to make looks like.I have many, many Dummies books and some of them are written for a UK readership.This book would have been much more useful if it had been as well.

I know I have to change my diet because whatever I’ve been putting in my mouth is not having the desired health-inducing and nourishing effect… as is being demonstrated in my rapidly expanding waistline, high blood pressure, and even higher cholesterol. So, even though I’d never heard of this apparent trend for eating clean, I figured I’d give this book a try and to be honest, I’m amazed at the wealth of information it contains.As it turns out, clean eating isn’t so much a ‘diet’ as such, but more a ‘lifestyle choice’; as it’s not just the type of food you eat but also when you eat it and even how you eat it plus so much more. In a way, it sort of makes me think of it as mindfulness for the digestive system.However, there is plenty of evidence-supporting research cited and for the more geeky there’s shed loads of nutritional science for what’s good and what’s bad and explaining why. I’ve become fascinated by this book in a way no standard diet has held my interest.Although there are about 40 odd pages of recipes, rather than be a recipe book (which I naively thought it was when ordering) it’s more empowering than that, as it gives strong guidance as to the sorts of foods to consume (or avoid) and directs you to the best cooking methods but leaves you to make your own recipes. For me it’s like an encyclopaedia for healthy eating.My initial feelings towards this book weren’t too positive as it’s clearly been marketed to an American audience (I’m not referring to the spelling differences, but more substantial concerns about ‘our country’ (meaning theirs), including references to primary health issues in the US population rather than the UK (they even list bison as a suggested recipe ingredient) but those irritations dissipated the more I read and the more engrossed I became with the subject matter.I’m so inspired right now I’m going to give the concepts a try for the next couple of months and see how that goes, but for anyone with an interest in getting more guidance about eating more healthily (even if it’s just to get better nutritional value out of the healthy foods you already eat) this book seems to offer that, and in a non-preachy way.