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Gillian McKeith's Food Bible: The Complete A-Z Guide to a Healthy Life [Paperback]

Gillian McKeith (Author)
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Publication Date: 23 April 2008

It's now proven beyond all doubt that eating more leafy green vegetables helps to prevent cancer, that many of the obese children of today will die before their parents, that good nutrition is the very best aid through the menopause and can even help to ward off Alzheimer's disease . . . and simply having bags more energy and vitality is a tremendous benefit in itself, considering the stresses of modern life.

This book brings together for the first time Gillian's life's work and offers the very best information on how food affects your health, well-being, ageing, ability to fight disease and quality of life. It is innovative in its design and extremely user-friendly with a comprehensive A-Z section on all the common illnesses and diseases — a must-have book for anyone who cares about their health.

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Michael Joseph (23 April 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0718148908
  • ISBN-13: 978-0718148904
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 19.2 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 122,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr Gillian McKeith (PhD) is an internationally acclaimed holistic nutritionist. Gillian is the presenter of You Are What You Eat, the hit Celador primetime television programme for Channel Four. Gillian is the author of the bestselling You Are What You Eat and You Are What You Eat Cookbook, Dr Gillian McKeith's Ultimate Health Plan, Dr Gillian McKeith's Shopping Guide and Gillian McKeith's Wedding Countdown Diet. www.drgillianmckeith.com
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46 of 59 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars easy to understand one stop guide for your food and health concerns 28 April 2008
By Mr. James Purves
Format:Paperback
This is probably the most useable book that Gillian McKeith has written so far. It is essentially a complete compendium that provides a thorough guide to the direct relationship between food and health, looking in detail at the effects we can have on our bodies and our general well being by taking some simple steps. Not only does the book lend itself to being a useful resource to dip into when you need to find out about a condition or illness, it is also immensly readable and has already expanded my knowledge on many areas I was not aware of.

Be prepared though - if you are planning on just dipping in here or there, you may well be sucked into a whole new world and then find yourself clearing the store cupboards of the usual junk and hitting the shops to restock with far healthier alternatives. The advantage being this time you know why your buying certain foods and what the benefits are that will follow.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs a one stop bible for all food and health issues - and that might just be most of us!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great healthy information 30 May 2013
By Mrs Elizabeth Sharkey
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This makes good reading, along with Gillian's other books, ie Gillian's You Are What You Eat.
Great guidelines on improving health issues.
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24 of 34 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Nonsense and Pseudoscience 28 Dec 2008
By Jake
Format:Paperback
McKeith is not a medical doctor. Indeed, her degree is a correspondance course from an unacredited American college. Not that this neccesarily matters, but the problem is that this is indicative of McKeith's whole approach: rubbish dressed up as something more through the use of fancy terminology. Sadly, she fails to understand her field entirely and so this book veers between, as its best, mere common sense and, at its worst, potentially dangerous misinformation.
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19 of 27 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Plain common sense dressed up in pseudo science 8 Sep 2008
By L. Davies
Format:Paperback
I was recently given this by a friend and I have to say that I was distinctly underwhelmed by the contents. Essentially it's just common sense advice like eating fresh ingredients in moderation, but dressed up in pseudo scientific language. Money would be better spent on a decent cookbook and some ingredients.
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28 of 40 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a long time coming! 24 April 2008
By R. Herron
Format:Paperback
wow, if you needed a book with all the answers to your health woes this certainly seems to be it! i've already referred to it a number of times and it is just soooo useful. It will be as useful to everyone as a Thesaurus is to a writer!!!!! :-)
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It does what it says in the book :-)) 23 July 2009
By Nigel Hunter
Format:Paperback
I obtained a copy of the book the Food Bible by Gillian McKeith from Amazon after having looked at a friends copy and was amazed at the depth Gillian goes to, to give you the facts behind why certain foods are great to eat and others not so.

It is split up into logical subheadings covering these contents:

Key Health Factors
Foundations of a Healthy Diet
Food & the Stages of Life and
A-Z of Conditions

The font size in the book is a good size so you aren't straining to read it which is a good consideration for viewers with not too good eyesight,and there are large margins so you can write notes in the book if you want to.

Just to give you a snippet of some of the contents on page 32 of the book it talks about complex & simple carbohydrates giving you the reason why simple carbs aren't good for your body this way:

"These foods which also lack fibre behave like sugar in the body causing blood glucose disturbances and cravings; they often contain added sugars too. You may feel angry, tired & irritable.

Complex carbohydrates break down more slowly. This is partly due to the fibre they contain. Fibre slows down the rate at which food is broken down and therefore the rate at which glucose is released into the blood stream.They are also not stripped of their nutrients. End result: sustained energy levels."

I always knew that complex carbs were good for you as im an avid cyclist. Now I know the reason why I am able to cycle longer distances and not feel as hungry as some of my mates who eat just anything!!

Seeing you are already on the Amazon site reading this review wanting to know if the book is worth purchasing: BUY IT !! You'll be glad you did.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Help 22 April 2011
By M. Lovett
Format:Paperback
I found this book very hard to get into in the first place. Unfortunately a lot of the food is awful
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The missus rates it 4 Sep 2009
By Mr. R. Allan
Format:Paperback
Great info, even for my educated, healthy wife she has found some very useful info to assist with diet when pregnant. Essential for the health conscious eater
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5.0 out of 5 stars bargain!!!!!!
this book is excellent and was 1p so how can you go wrong arrived very quickly as well ! ! !
Published 12 months ago by villy
3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected
I bought this book because of the good reviews and because I agree with Gillian McKeith's vision on food, however I expected something totally different. Read more
Published on 15 May 2011 by Sweety
5.0 out of 5 stars Gillian McKeith's Health A-Z
Whatever your ailment, Gillian McKeith has just the right food for it. A brilliant, detailed book, with everything you need to know about nutrition and the effect of various foods... Read more
Published on 21 April 2010 by R. Baxter
1.0 out of 5 stars More pseudoscience by ahem "Dr" Gillian McKeith
Yet more money-spinning pseudoscience by Gillian McKeith 'PhD - that's the 'PhD' in holistic nutrition via a distance-learning programme from the non-accredited 'American Holistic... Read more
Published on 13 July 2009 by Anonymous
1.0 out of 5 stars Useful if caught short in the forest
The paper is not very soft but fairly absorbent and there are lots of sheets. Better than using leaves but I would scope around and find some nice soft moss if you have time...
Published on 19 Feb 2009 by Run Grover Run
1.0 out of 5 stars Unscientific
Anything she has to add to conventional and scientifically estabilished health improvement behaviour, is either blatantly wrong or completely unproven. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2008 by borismedley
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't think about it, just buy it.
This book make the flight across the big pond for me and the 21 day wait to get it was worth every second and extra penny. It is true, this is THE book as a resource guide. Read more
Published on 26 May 2008 by Brenda L. Owen
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