Your Body Knows Best by Ann Louise Gittleman
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Book Reviews of Your Body Knows Best
Book Review: Excellent!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This book helped me a great deal in explaining how my body functions. For two and half years, I was a vegetarian and for some reason I continually gained weight. I did not understand how my low-fat to no-fat diet could cause me to gain weight and why my digestive system never seemed healthy. I knew something was intrinsically wrong, I just didn't know what. Fortunately, I happened upon Ann Louise's book where she explains that as a Northern European descendent, I simply need animal protein. I am now committed to a diet that is free of wheat and refined sugar products and full of animal protein. My weight gain and digestive problems have subsided. This book helps you understand that there is a definite language of the body, we just have to know how to listen. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with understanding their body, not necessarily out to lose weight, but to come back in balance to what your body's needs are. There are basic and simple, we just need to learn the language. I also recommend Ann Louises' other book "Super Nutrition for Women."
Book Review: A well-rounded, logical approach to healthy eating.
Summary: 4 Stars
As a personal trainer, I recommend this book to my clients. It provides a well-rounded approach to eating, something that most "diet" books lack. In other words, instead of coming up with some "hook" and basing a diet on that one factor, Gittleman draws on several important factors and emphasizes the need to shape your eating habits around your individual traits.An added plus: it does NOT promote the low-fat diet that has led to obesity in so many Americans.
Book Review: Great information and good tips
Summary: 4 Stars
Good information, very clear and makes a lot of sense. I highly reccomend for everyone who wants to take good care of themselves. It will make you aware especially when you go grocery shopping.Book Review: your body knows best
Summary: 4 Stars
This book was used as a prize in an eat heathy exhibit at a Parish
Mardi Gras. The book is an excellent source of good information.
Book Review: Not a bad read, but incomplete
Summary: 3 Stars
I recently read Ann Louise Gittleman's book "The Fat Flush Plan" and followed the program for a month and half with very good results. I liked her style and her approach. She's not just another nutritionist or lean person writing a book about something she never had to experience - she knows what it means, to be on a diet thinking that it's the healthiest possible and seeing fail on you, she knows what it means to be on the search for "the perfect weight loss plan" or "the healthiest diet". So when I heard about this book, I was positively thrilled.Creating a taylored regimen utilizing a combination of different approaches that have been developed through the years is a brilliant idea - after all, metabolic typing and the blood group diet seem to have worked great for a lot of people, but they too were inperfect plans. So combining the two of them and adding the data about ancestry and body needs developed through one's "family tree" seemed like the best idea of all. But a work like this would go into very many aspects and peculiarities, since each approach has its own flaws and supposedly these could be sort of fixed by jumping in with a different approach. In other words, a book like what this book promises would have be much thicker and go into each "tool of personalization" much deeper than this book actually does. It does contain some useful info, and anyone who can fit into the categories very specifically will find it helpful. But in my case, this book didn't tell me anything that could help me taylor my food regimen to my needs - I happen to be of the blood group AB, which is the newest and least common one, so I am told to find a balance between the A group diet and the B group diet. No tayloring on that aspect. Then we come to consider the metabolic typing, and I seem to be a fast burner, except I have some key characteristics of the slow burner, like a passion for cakes, sweets and pastries, and a feeling that no meal is complete without a sweet fix. So that also puts me kind of in the middle.
In short, this book is based on an excellent idea but it barely touches the tip of the iceberg. In order to be truly helpful and complete it would need to go much more into each approach and include research on the "exceptions".
A good read for anyone who doesn't have much knowledge of the field of nutrition, mainly an interesting read, but not very useful, for anyone else.