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I started to listen to the tape of this book Eating Well for Optimum Health by Andrew Weil, MD and so far i am very impressed. It helps to explain more about food the what, why, and how in our and other cultures. I read SB and alot of what Weil's says is the SB way of eating. It just gives you a better explanation and more information on how to use food as a way of being health I got it from my library and listen to it when i go for a walk it helps to make the walk less boring. I do believe that everyone would get something from these tapes (6) The tape was made in 2000 and i do get confused but if you check out his web site it answers most of the confusion.
http://www.drweil.com/drw/ecs/ask_dr_weil/qa_library.html |
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Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:39 pm |
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| RedRox
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| Most healthy eating plans kind of converge around the same core foods and concepts. I subscribe to his online recipe of the day newsletter and most of the recipes are fairly SB friendly. He does divurge in spots though and likely uses more natural forms of sugars and some higher glycemic foods than SB would necessarily recommend. So if SB is still your primary set of guidelines, you may need to adapt them a little. But he makes a lot of sense! :) |
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Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:39 pm |
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| <3.Nikki.<3
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Andrew Weil and his books are what influenced my mother to put my whole family on a healthy diet when I was younger.. she lost TONS of weight using his recipes and ideas and it was really effective towards stuff like mood stabilizing and stabilizing psychological disorders.. I have anxiety and bipolar and my brother has ADD and when we began to eat how my mother directed us (using Andrew Weil's books) our moods and conditions improved immensely. She went from sluggish and agitated to playful and relaxed herself, too!
It's not entirely SBD but they are useful and his cases for using real sugar, etc are feasible and make sense.. for instance, if there wasn't any Splenda I'd likely not be able to do SBD because I utterly refuse to eat saccharin or aspartame because of their negative aspects. Splenda is derived from sugar though so it's far healthier.. Andrew Weil only really reccomends one sugar substitute though, called Stevia. It's actually pretty good!
Anyway though, Andrew Weil is really a good fit for SBD followers because he believes in the idea that this is a lifestyle change not a "diet". He says people fail at diets because they view it as temporary and gain all of it back once they've achieved a goal because they stop... this is true and SBD is very similar in ideology!
All together I'd reccomend his books to people. His stuff is what made me search for a health solution to my weight and energy problems and saved my mom's life! |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:23 am |
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My opinion on stevia is that the jury is still out. But a lot of people use it with no apparent ill effects. Dr. A doesn't approve of it, but I think that is more of a liability issue than anything else. (Don't know, just guessing.) I just think it tastes weird. I think many of the long time beachers here come around to using lower glycemic natural sweeteners in moderation and avoid the artificial ones to a large extent. Maple syrup and agave nectar work for the several applications where I feel like I need to add sweetness to something. Must admit I can't really give up my aspartame laced NSA fudgesicle though! I still think that's better for me than my bottomless "dish" of ice cream every night!
Dr. Weil is a voice of reason in the morass of internet health claims though. I posted something recently by him in one thread about whole grains that made a lot of sense about eating whole grains in more whole formats and that whole grain bread and bread products really did little glycemically compared to white breads.
Glad you both found someone to help get your lives back on track! Doesn't really matter who writes the memo as far as I'm concerned, as long as it gets delivered and makes an impact! |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:43 pm |
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