Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #149136 in Books
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Synopsis
The smartest eating choices - made simple in this book! The secret to looking, feeling, and living better than ever is not by depriving yourself of the foods you love. It's by making the best choices in a variety of real-life situations. Based on the most popular column in both "Men's Health" and "Women's Health" magazines, "Eat This Not That" is a comprehensive guide to what to eat at home, from the supermarket, even at a fast-food restaurant.Do you know why a hot fudge sundae is a good dessert option? Why potato chips are better than fries? And why Swiss cheese is three times healthier than Cheddar? With this simple, illustrated guide to hundreds and hundreds of foods - along with the nutrition secrets that lead to fast and permanent weight loss - now you will!

Customer Reviews

Choose One Fat-Laden Dish or Sandwich Rather Than Another
The information in this book is accurate and helpful, but you won't get enough information to make much of dent in your surplus heft. Why?

1. Almost half the book focuses on restaurants, and very few of those are located near where I live. At least a third of the book was totally irrelevant to me.

2. In the comparisons, most of the space goes for photographs. A simple text format would have allowed ten times as much information in the same space.

3. Unless you have never read anything about fat and calories, you will only find a surprising answer in about every 40 pages. In the entire book, I only found three places where I have been choosing the wrong thing when the choices are available.

4. Restaurants and food providers are always changing what they offer (usually by adding more fat, sugar, sodium, and calories) so this book will quickly become obsolete . . . unlike a more fundamental book on how to control weight.

5. Within the recommendations, there are some pretty extreme ones. Are you ready to eat a cup of fresh spinach daily? Can you afford a cup of blueberries a day? Now, I like both foods but I doubt if I've ever eaten that much of either one in a day.

I felt the book had about $6.00 worth of information in a $19.95 format.

If you are totally new to what fats, sodium, and carbohydrates are in foods and want to make some better choices, this book certainly won't hurt you.

May shock you into better choices
This book is great if you still want to eat out and make wise food choices. The majority of the book breaks down choices at many regular restaurants and fast food restaurants. On facing pages you are presented with the "Eat This" choice on one side and "Not That" on the other. It not only shows what the better choice is, but it breaks down the fat and calories from both. Here's one example: Burger King "Eat this" choice is the Whopper Jr. and a Garden Salad for a grand total of 365 calories and 12 grams of fat - the comparison on the facing page for "Not That" is the BK Big Fish Sandwich and a medium order of fries for a grand total of 1,000 calories and 52 grams of fat. You could argue that no one should eat fast food, but if you want to eat out, this book gives you lower fat/calorie alternatives. This is an excellent little book.

Handy Facts
A helpful little book that gives readers the run down on the calories contained in the foods served up in fast food outlets and restaurants. The information allows one to sum up the food options, which is good for them, which is not. Which food is too high in calories and is there a better, healthier alternative on the menu.

In an age where many are overweight or obese in the Western World, books like this are always needed to help keep us educated on healthy eating habits.

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