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 - Great BookI highly recommend this book for anyone who is ready to enjoy wholesome food and reap the benefits of a healthier lifestyle. Don't waste your money on another fad diet book. Buy this user- friendly book based on National Institutes of Health research. The forms that are provided make it easy to set goals and track your personal progress. You will develop the skills needed to achieve long -term success as you learn about deciphering food labels, making over your kitchen, and eating away from home. The 28 days of delicious menus, culinary tips, and great recipes will show you that it is possible to enjoy fantastic food and feel full while you improve your health. As a Registered Dietitian and educator I say - order your copy now. Rating:  - its okIf you want to follow a strict diet then this is good for you, but I like more choices, so I found the diet too demanding. Rating: - Dash DietThis book is exceptional for people who are wanting to try something new. I ordered it for my mother in law and in 2 weeks she lost 8 lbs using this diet plan. Rating:  - Dash diet action planThis book is so-so. Most of the info you can find on the NIH site or Dash site on line. The menus are nothing to rave about--and the recipes are not very inspiring. The only good thing is you can go on line with a site they have to download charts to keep records of weight, blood pressure, etc. Rating: - Small and expensiveThis book do have a lot of information in it and it is easily accessible. But it is a small book and the print is large so for $19.99 I was surprised and disappointed before I even opened it. However, it describes the diet well I think and makes a good case for increasing veg and fruits into an every day diet. It also gives some tools for managing that in daily life. There were fewer recipes than I expected but if I had known it's such a small book I would not expect more. Reading it does give a positive feel for approaching the DASH diet. My biggest disappointment however was the meal suggestions. How a normal person/couple/family could possibly manage to cook all that healthy food on weekdays is beyond me (just look at breakfasts for week one: cereal, omelette, french toast, waffles (!)...). Normal people stick to a formula (like cereal) for breakfast and vary it around that. A discussion of the importance of variation would be useful at that point, but to expect new items every breakfast is not what the most people can cope with. Same goes with lunch. It would also be an expensive menu to follow because of the millions of fresh food items you need to keep (and will get wasted as you wont use them) and you'd have to be prepared to get a large freezer, for how else could you not have to throw away day twos left-over lunch ham when there's no other ham on the menu for 28 days (I might be wrong there.) Most people buy one topping and use it every other day until it is used up - or use left over meats from dinners. The book would have benefitted from an (extensive) assortment of weekday menu items, such as the ham and cheese sandwich followed by a discussion of the importance to vary the food. On the dinners I have little to comment, I have yet to try the recipes out. I doubt we're going to eat chicken three times in one week though, however prepared. I was missing any comments on lamb, which is a meat we have at home more often than beef (excluding ground beef). I do find the serving chart useful in combination with the weekly check-off form. Ticking boxes for food eaten makes it easier to get a feel for how well the diet is kept on track. In association with Amazon.com | |