Book Review Of Eat To Live

Professional book review: “Eat to live” , by Fuhrman, J.

The book “Eat to live” was written by a board-certified family physician, Joel Fuhrman. The cover of the book attracted the reader with the line “lose 20lbs or more in 2 weeks” (Fuhrman, 2003). Dr. Fuhrman (2003) wrote this book in order to introduce a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratio to everyone. By following to this diet, you will not only lose weight, but also get healthier. Dr. Fuhrman (2003) also explained in this book why you should choose his diet plan to become healthier. According to Dr. Fuhrman (2003), “the key to this diet is a simple formula: Health = Nutrients/Calories” (p.7).

The books are divided into ten chapters. The first two chapter brought up the effect of the American diet (Fuhrman, 2003, p.15). More and more American are obese.

Fuhrman (2003) went deeper to provide more accurate information about how eating high nutrient food works in weight loss (p.116). There is an interesting part of this chapter, which is a list of food will make you thin (p.119).

In chapter seven, Dr. Fuhrman (2003) explains the power of his Eat to live diet over the illness (p.143). Instead of taking pills, illness could be prevented or treated with nutrition. He demonstrated how his diet could help the patients who were suffering a heart attack, diabetes, and so on to reverse their health condition. The reason for how nutrition works as a remedy for many diseases is because the causes of these diseases involve in nutrition.

Dr. Fuhrman provided the guidelines to help you create your own diet plan every day in order to achieve your goal of weight loss and maintaining a healthy life. In chapter nine, he provided his Eat to Live menu plans and recipe. There were vegetarian and nonvegetarian options for the readers to choose. Dr. Fuhrman (2003) had the last chapter for frequently asked questions (p.225). In this chapter, he provided more practical information to help you become