Product Description

Dr Gillian McKeith has turned round Britains worst eaters with incredible results. Now discover her fabulous diet secrets and get ready to meet the new you! Take the food IQ test and find out what your diet is doing to you. Banish your cravings. Prevent food related health problems such as diabetes. Discover how small changes are going to make a big difference. Eat more... not less. Follow Dr Gillian McKeiths simple advice and seven day jumpstart plan and youll look and feel fantastic. Youll be amazed at the difference a few changes can make and how easy it can be - just give it a go and see! As seen on Channel 4!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #733 in Books
• Brand: Dr Gillian McKeith
• Published on: 2004-06-17
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
Addictive TV + Excellent Advice = The Diet Sensation of the Year. In the primetime Channel 4 television series You Are What You Eat, Dr Gillian McKeith works closely with eight ordinary people - dubbed Britain's Worst Eaters - to give them a diet makeover. As they get on the path to health their bodies and their lives turn around in amazing ways. In the book, Dr Gillian brings together the advice and the real-life stories to create a diet makeover for all. There are 10 steps to follow, including Get To Know Your Own Body, Top 10 Bummers and Dr Gillian's Top 20 Crisis Tips, plus a 14-day start-up plan, which will literally transform the way we approach our diet and health. The results are incredible and anyone can do it. At a time when the western world is waking up to the nightmare of obesity problems, Dr Gillian is the voice of inspiration - she's on a mission of tough love and her approach, very simply, works.

Customer Reviews

What a Wonderful Book Its FAB!!!!!
I am what you may call a healthy eating exercising freak. I buy lots of exercise dvds and healthy eating books, but very rarely find one I can read from cover to cover. I found this book very easy to read and Gillian's story (preface) at the beginning is extremely inspirational and gave me a good feeling about her from the start. Her book is filled with expert advice that really works if you are self-disciplined and you use it to the letter. Everything she suggests is for the best health reasons and really improves your well-being. She offers good advice on everything from your 'five a day' to detox. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT: I WAS A CAKE AND NOW I'M A LETTUCE LEAF!

Very general and a bit unrealistic
Although I found the book interesting at first, I found it was very general and not very realistic. Unless you want to follow the detox I don't find it very useful as a guide. Don't bother looking at the websites for any free tips or information because you won't find anything free at all.I have found many better books on the subject afterwards.

Some interesting health information but totally unrealistic as a diet plan
I think this is only useful really as a reference book for looking up nutrition related ailments or juice recipes (although they aren't even that good). My main criticism with this book and Gillian McKeith in general is that it is just too extreme. All the foods she promotes in her book are great to include in your diet and it is best to limit or reduce the 'bad' foods but to totally cut so many things out is unrealistic. Only a very small minority of people could actually stick to her diet in the long term.

My main problem with Mrs McKeith is the way that she is so unforgiving of anyone slipping or falling off the wagon by eating something that she claims is 'wrong' or 'bad'. I know she uses shock tactics on her programme but I have been horrified to see her bring people to tears for eating something they shouldn't. When people try to stick to such restrictive diets they are bound to end up craving high fat and sugar foods even more. When this happens the last thing you should do is tell them what a failure they are. That'll only serve to lower their self esteem further.

Anyway, good in pricipal - eat good food to be healthy but far too extreme for long term success.