The Way to Eat: A Six-Step Path to Lifelong Weight Control

This book tells it as it is. If you are overwieght you are consuming more calories than you using, plain and simple.There are 2 things you can do.1) Burn more calories (exercise).2) Eat less calories.He explains that the most effective way to loose wieght is to reduce caloric intake as we often consume calories without thinking (using anecdotal asides that struck a chord with me).Dr Katz clearly lays out the the most comon problems that people have. He explains how our eating habits that evolved for our survival can cause us to consume too many calories in the modern world where we have easy access to food. His suggests by paying a bit more attention you can shed pounds and provides strategies and tactics help. He explains that fad/popular diets do not provide long term solutions as they are not sustainable and do not provide the required permanent eating habit changes.Losing weight is not easy, but it is simple.

It's a guidelines to use but not something I think I could follow forever. It provides great insight into eating and how foods have changed, but I'm not sure it's a simple guidelines for people with busy lifestyles.

This is an excellent book on what everyone needs to know about eating. I highly recommend it to anyone who is concerned about weight and diet.

Nothing new these doctors never really address any thing I want to know

Nice book very useful to learn to eat.

Excellent book, with lifelong healthy tips for all. This was a great book to add to our library of helathy habits.

I wanted to lose about 10-15 lbs. Everyone I knew (thin people overall)were suddenly doing the no-carb thing. But as someone who has never been on and never wants to go on a diet I could not get myself to accept that grains are my downfall and meat is the answer. I was leary of trying to, quote, trick my body into thinking it is starving, during an induction period that was being recommended by the other diets. I wanted a diet that would be heart healthy long-term and that I would want to share as a way of life with my children. I believe that the no-carb folk are motivated by the quick results of the induction period, not as much due to restricted carbs as restricted calories. My sister wouldn't eat a single grape the first few weeks. But they are a convincing lot and I decided to take out a few of the popular diet books from the library and decide my path to a healthier/leaner life at leisure. The clear winner was The Way to Eat. It provides the motivation to break the bad habits (sugars, bad carbs, too few veggies, junk food). It acknowledged the existence of bad carbs and without blacking the name of all carbs. In fact it differntiates the good, bad or ugly in all the food groups with it's recommendations. The diet (and its presentation in the book)is balanced, positive, and backed by the bulk of professional studies over the course of years. A fun read, it made getting on track easy and delicious. So now, with the right foods on my shelves, I have returned all the books to the library's shelves and am here on Amazon.com to purchase my own copy of Dr. Katz's book. And I plan to share it with my no-carb crowd! Note to the reviewer a few down who complains that the reveiws are from CT and MD: your e-mail was so not helpful...it had nothing whatever to do with the content of the book! Some free advice: grow up, stop being a nudge, and read the book before you comment.

The Way To Eat is a superb book by nutritionist and preventive specialist Dr. David Katz. He explains in clear terms how we have gotten into the present epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease (our bodies are originally adapted for intensive physical activity in a setting of constant food scarcity), and why binging and weight gain are natural outcomes (in our new high-fat high-calorie low activity environment). Katz then dispenses with both guilt as well as fad diets, explaining how we can alter our eating habits to suit the modern environment. Simple and intelligent food choices (including how to read and really understand "Nutrition Facts" product labeling), healthful snacking, and providing children with healthful early eating habits serve as major points of emphasis in this outstanding guide. The Way To Eat is a major achievement in the nutrition field. I have already begun recommending it to patients and their families, and readers everywhere will be richly rewarded when they embrace Dr. Katz's insightful, enjoyable, and common sense advice.

As expected!