About book Viskas Prasideda Nuo Maisto. Visavertė Mityba 30 Dienų (2014)
It Starts with Food has been a bestseller since its first publication in 2012. Dallas and Melissa Hartwig, a dynamic husband and wife team have changed thousands of lives with their Whole30 program, which began on their blog in 2009. This book details what the blog highlights: how to change your life in thirty days through nutritional eating.I wanted to try the Whole30 and felt I needed to read the book to acquire a more in-depth approach. I’ve followed a Primal/Paleo diet for two and a half years, but still I felt I needed to do a system reset. The Whole30 accomplishes this with a wholesome yet tasty diet of whole foods with the additional absence of refined sugar and dairy. By resetting the body, it’s possible to achieve maximum health with dramatic improvements in sleep, energy levels and self-esteem. Many followers claim the elimination of a wide variety of diseases and symptoms in just thirty days of following this eating plan. Starting September 1, I will be doing the same. Look for a progress report to follow.It Starts with Food gives the reader not only the “how” but the “why” and the authors summarize with scientific detail and pages of references. For example, specific foods may have negative effects in one or more of four areas they refer to as the Good Food Standards: namely:The food we eat should:1. Promote a healthy psychological response2. Promote a healthy hormonal response3. Support a healthy gut4. Support immune function and minimum inflammationIf the foods we eat cannot do all four of the above, perhaps we should consider foods that do. By following the Whole30, which is a tasty elimination diet, it is possible to discover which foods might be best avoided. A wealth of testimonials attest to the positive changes made by simply avoiding listed food offenders for a thirty-day period.The book is divided into seven parts. Following the good food standards, required reading to understand how the body functions on food, other sections cover foods that are less healthy and move on to the more healthy ones with a primer on the right fats. Meal Planning Made easy is a prelude to the Whole30 program with the last part a guide on making it a long-term success. An appendix offers several pages of recipes and another concludes resources to help on the journey to wellness and vibrant health.In short, It Starts with Food is a wonderfully useful introduction to what to eat and why, and what each food does and does not do for your body. The authors explain the science using examples everyone can understand. Highly recommended and a must before embarking on the Whole30 program. I'm disappointed, though in retrospect I don't know why I had high expectations of this to start with. I've been doing the program for 28 days now and I expect to see it through -- no issues with the program, but the book, my god. My major problems with it: 1) The tone. Good grief, the tone. Cutesy "tough love" and "sugar dragons" everywhere. Condescending rhetorical questions. It seems to be written with an assumption that the reader is a stupid sack of fat who needs to be talked down to on every page. Anyone who ever, ever wants to talk about a "sugar dragon roaring" to me can get lost now. 2) The woo. I've seen a lot of reviews praising how well supported this is scientifically, and I really have to wonder what they think "supported" means. References were not attached to specific claims; rather, they were given at the end with a vague note as to what they might be supporting. Some of the references were 20, 30 or even 40 years old, and others were from popular websites like Slate. Lots of references =/= well supported; rather, well padded. The lack of referencing in the text made it hard to believe the claims of the authors throughout. 3) The format. I have the ebook version, and all the tables were broken in the latter sections. 4) The inconsistencies. Guilt-tripping the reader in the early chapters, then making claims about not feeling guilty in later chapters. Talking about not having dessert, then offering a dessert recipe. Overall, I haven't minded doing the actual program -- I think it was a good way to re-set some habits, particularly around junk food and booze. And no shit you're going to lose weight if you usually consume a ton of donuts and wine, and then you shift to a different diet. But I am disappointed with the book and the way it's expressed, and I'm just not convinced about paleo; I'm more likely to use the Whole 30 as a reset from dreadful habits and then support change with my own research, because at least I know that'll be from sources that are peer-reviewed.
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Great book. Very helpful. Makes health eating seem very easy.
—trixster
Loved it from start to finish - no nonsense easy to read !
—Gracey
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—alysse
Very good book Great read for a healthy lifestyle
—aafy
