Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6188 in Books
• Brand: Dr Gillian McKeith
• Published on: 2005-03-17
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Guardian
'The nutritionist of choice for Hollywood stars, royalty, even world leaders'

Synopsis
My aim is for you to make simple changes that will begin to take effect almost immediately and will last for life' The You Are What You Eat Cookbook puts Dr Gillian McKeith's healthy food philosophy into action. The McKeith Diet of Abundance is not about telling you what not to eat, rather it shatters the usual expectations of dieting and allows you to eat more, not less. The key is variety, and in her new cookbook, Dr McKeith provides over 200 recipes and menu plans for daily life, from mouthwatering smoothies to lunches on the run to family meals. Take the food test at the beginning of the book and you will also get to tailor your own plan according to your specific needs, whether you would simply like more energy throughout the day, you'd like to lose some weight, or you're stressed out. Every recipe included is bursting with goodness, soon you will be too.

From the Back Cover
Dr Gillian's recipe for a healthier life...
Eat delicious food, feel great, look fabulous.

The 'You Are What You Eat Cookbook' makes healthy cooking easy, simple and fun. It also answers all those questions that can easily turn into excuses...

-Can healthy food really be tasty and convenient?
-What can I eat other than salad?
-I've bought the quinoa, but now what do I do with it?

Packed with over 150 recipes and ideas for juices, smoothies, breakfasts, soups, salads, lunch-boxes, main meals, quick bites, snacks and treats, here is a cookbook for you and your family to savour.

Customer Reviews

Bland
The mrs bought this book, but as I do most of the cooking I had to read it.
I'm all for healthy eating but the recipes in this book are completely devoid of all flavour.
I was particularly unimpressed with the bean chili recipe which doesn't contain any chili.
Healthy eating isn't rocket science, you don't need this book

A second word of warning
Amazon do not make clear that this is simply the "paperback" version of a previously published book of recipes.

If you already have bought the "You Are What You Eat" Cookbook: Over 150 Healthy and Delicious Recipes already then you will already have this book. It has been republished with a different cover, which makes one think it is 150 new recipes, but it is not.

Other than that I would recommend this book as it offers some fresh ideas towards eating healthily.

While Gillian may know a thing or two about nutrition, I don't think she is a very good cookery writer. The quantities to "serve four" are always way too much, and I always considerably reduce the amounts.

A Word of Warning
A word of warning before you start taking Gillian McKeith too seriously.

I can't comment on how her recipes taste - but try reading a few reviews of her other books.

If you're looking for dietary advice you need a dietician. Nutrionist is a made up word - anybody can call themselves a nutrionist (and a lot of nobodies do).

Gillian McKeith is no longer allowed to call herself "Dr" after a recent ruling by the ASA. She has no medical qualifications, just a PhD from a non-accredited US college (you can get one for yourself for around [..]).

Yes somewhere at the heart of what she says in this book is sensible dietary advice - eat fruit & veg. not burgers and ready meals. Like most diet books this is just a faddish way of dressing this up with some nonsense pseudoscientific explanations of why it might work.

She insists it is better to eat food raw because we need the enzymes. These are destroyed in your stomach and broken down before you absorb them. However there are few more vitamins in uncooked veg. than in cooked. But why can't she say that instrad of making up nonsense?

She believes eating green vegetables will oxygenate your blood because of the chlorophyll. Even if the chlorophyll could get into you blood you'd have to shine a light up your bum for this to work! If it did work it would also be making glucose in your blood (oxygen is just a by-product as far as plants are concerned) which would be a real problem if you're diabetic.

She believes yeast will make you ill because you'll absorb it into your blood where it'll ferment. That really is nonsense, yeast is a living organism and can't possibly enter you blood unless you inject it.

This woman doesn't deserve your money.

If you really want to know what's going on read The Truth About Food or watch the BBC series instead of McKeith's nonsense.