Amazon.com Review: "If you burden your metabolism by eating incompatible foods that disregard the laws of your body chemistry," writes Eleonora De Lennart, you poison your body. Cooking, says De Lennart, changes ("denatures") the chemistry of proteins and turns them into "bad" and "extreme bad" proteins: "unhealthy acid-builders." We can handle digesting these only if eaten on their own. The solution: "A" and "B" foods that should not be eaten together, and "Neutral" foods that may be eaten with either "A" or "B" foods. "A" foods include grains, sugar products, starchy vegetables, and some fruits. "B" foods include low-fat dairy, cooked meats and seafood, cooked tomatoes, and some fruits. "Neutral" foods include fats, vegetables, high-fat dairy, and smoked, cured, and dried meat. Nix chicken sandwiches or pasta marinara. Eat potatoes without ketchup, cereal without orange juice. To get you started, De Lennart offers 240 pages of menu plans and recipes and handy pull-out charts. De Lennart bases her method on the work of William Howard Hay, M.D. (who, she says, was misunderstood and therefore never received the Nobel prize). She refers to her "groundbreaking research" yet inexplicably gives no information about her credentials--except that her specialty is the Science of Consciousness and she wrote The Race That Should Be Human. Admittedly not a "medicine-man" or biochemist, she bases her conclusions on her personal experience and her own research (which, as far as we can tell, is anecdotal). --Joan Price
critical reviews are negative Critical reviews on the book's science are often negative. So I tend not to want to write it up positively.
Like I like this book and have kept it. The diet does work but I had trouble sticking to it. I wish I had a smoker (for meat) and that that would make it easier to stick to this.
Keep the Good stuff! It appears that many foods are not clearly categorized and become confusing. Some fruits go into several categories based on whether they are raw or dehydrated, etc. I do believe that there is something to the foods that she calls base builders. This is not based off of any sound science, but off of the way I feel after I eat them. I have arthritis and feel better by simply eating more of the base builders and limiting the "bad proteins" to one meal a day. It is impossible for me to follow the charts to the letter. I try to eat potatoes as often as possible and feel that I have benefitted from adding milk back into my diet. I am pain-free for the first time in a year. Lowering acid like she suggests has been proven to work in gout, so it makes sense that increasing base building foods can help other inflammatory conditions. Keep eating the base building "yellow foods" and forget the food combining techniques.
SIMPLE and SATISFYING This book gave easy to understand information and instructions on how to eat for healthy digestion. The typos and grammatical errors were annoying, but the substance of the book rang true for me.
a new approach I love the science that backs up this new way of eating. It makes a lot of scense to me. I am however, having a difficult time changing over to this new way of eating. But, I am eating some foods that I like and not feeling cheated. I do have more energy, which was one of my biggest reasons for trying this book. However, after about 3 weeks on this "lifestyle change", I am still working with it. Some foods are hard to catergorize and perhaps I'm not dedicated enough to the weight loss chart. However, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get healthy and have a much better understaning of what our bodies need. Big plus, I'm not hungry all the time and I am eating smaller portions.
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