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GENEEN ROTH — BREAKING FREE FROM EMOTIONAL EATING
An excellent book written by someone who has been there and got the T-shirt. It is very readable, incredibly honest and sometimes quite funny. It also includes sensible guidelines for how to eat, and exercises for helping you understand why you overeat, and for allowing yourself to feel the emotions that may have been suppressed by overeating. There are also chapters on applying what you've learnt to difficult situations such as visiting parents and going to parties, and advice on passing on healthy eating behaviour to children.
If you have an emotional, difficult relationship with food, this is highly recommended.
SOPHIE AND AUDREY BOSS — BEYOND CHOCOLATE
Easy to read and one of the best introductions to the concepts of eating naturally.
PAUL MCKENNA — I CAN MAKE YOU THIN
This is a great introduction to some of the concepts which we use in our programmes. Paul's Golden Rules are based on observing the way naturally thin people eat, and are similar to our eating principles.
The book is written in a readable and accessible style and there are lots of case studies to show that you can get thin without dieting.
The hypnotherapy CD is also useful and relaxing.
The book is aimed at a mass market and does the job well. It is intended to be short and concise and lacks a little depth, for example in addressing the causes of emotional eating (Paul just uses a tapping technique to get rid of cravings). But all in all, a good, accessible introduction to the idea of eating to hunger and fullness.
SUSIE ORBACH — FAT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE
An all time classic, and if anything more relevant today than ever.
It's an interesting read and also has some good visualisation exercises in the back for working out your unconscious beliefs around food and weight.
It is quite psychoanalytical in its approach — not a quick fix by any means — but it is a very useful read if you want to think more about the social context of weight and explore your own beliefs in some depth.
GILLIAN RILEY - EATING LESS: SAY GOODBYE TO OVEREATING (PAPERBACK)
If you look at the reviews on Amazon, this approach obviously works well for a lot of people.
Gillian Riley is a specialist in addiction, and she treats overeating as an addiction.
It is different from the approach advocated in the above books, and our approach, in that she says you can't trust your hunger and fullness signals and therefore you have to control portion size and timing of eating. She also doesn't share the more modern psychological techniques that are available through NLP and cognitive behavioural style therapies for making it easier to control your behaviour. Therefore, it seems that you don't get to the end point we want to get you to — being naturally thin and in touch with your body.
So, not really consistent with our approach but obviously works for some.
GARY TAUBES — THE DIET DELUSION
If you want help with what to eat, this is definitely worth a read. Gary Taubes is a scientific journalist who took on the mammoth task of reviewing the science behind our common dietary beliefs. It makes surprising reading.
Gary's conclusions are:
Pretty controversial stuff!
Gary reviews the science in detail and reveals what he considers to be the true dietary villains.
It is not light reading because it is quite scientific and covers a lot of ground. Also, it can leave you feeling that a conventional western diet will inevitably make you fat! I believe we have more control over the situation (via our unconscious mind) than is suggested by this book. But this is well worth reading.
Highly recommended.
ANTHONY COLPO - THE CHOLESTEROL CON
Another one on what to eat. This again is quite dense, detailed and scientific. It is a must read if you have ever had concerns about your cholesterol levels or considered taking statin drugs. Colpo's conclusions are:
MICHAEL POLLAN - IN DEFENCE OF FOOD
I really like this book, and it ties in perfectly with our approach.
Michael Pollan urges us to: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." He says that humans used to know how to eat well, but these days basic healthy food ideas have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists - all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by "nutrients," and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals.
Michael Pollan de-bunks the myth that highly processed "reduced fat" type foods are healthy, and has some simple eating rules that I rather like. These include:
'Eat food'. (Meaning proper food made from proper ingredients instead of food products made from everything else. Homemade cake instead of 'diet' cake bars.)
'Don't Eat Anything Your Great-Grandmother Wouldn't Recognise As Food'
'Avoid Food Products Containing Ingredients That Are A)unfamiliar, B)unpronounceable, C)more than five in number, or that include D)high-fructose corn syrup.'
'You Are What You Eat Eats Too. That is, the diet of the animals we eat has a bearing on the nutritional quality and healthfulness, of the food itself, whether it is meat or milk or eggs.'
'Do All Your Eating At A Table. No, a desk is not a table.'
Definitely worth a read.
BAD SCIENCE
If you are wondering how we could have all been persuaded to eat low fat junk and dangerous trans fat infested margarine instead of butter, or to take statins and anti-depressants that are no better than a placebo (but have juicier side effects) this is the book to read.
It's entertaining and easy to read, and will definitely give you a new perspective on the latest wonder drug, "functional food", miracle berry from the rainforest, etc. And if a "de-tox foot bath" is on your Christmas list, you may end up removing it!
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