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Feed Your Tiger: Asian Diet By Letha Hadady

Author: Letha Hadady
Publisher: Rodale Books (December 12, 2006)

“Feed Your Tiger: The Asian Diet Secret for Permanent Weight Loss and Vibrant Health” by Letha Hadady is a diet book that plans to unlock the secrets of Asian cuisine. The author does not only come up with a diet that will help you to lose weight and maintain it afterwards, but she also makes diet suggestions according to your energy type (so the best results are obtained). In fact, this is the first book ever that connects energy types and weight loss. The natural remedies and techniques presented in this diet book may be inspired from traditional Chinese medicine, but they are also sustained by contemporary scientific research. 

Before getting started with the diet, you need to find out what your energy type is:

• Tiger
• Dragon
• Bear
• Crane

This can be easily determined by completing a short questionnaire that is available at the beginning of the book. Weight loss is targeted directly by linking the diet to your energy type, so restrictive dietary plans are no longer necessary. Once you find this out, you are able to select the foods that suit you best, along with herbal and nutritional supplements, stretches and massage techniques. 

Contents of the Book

“Feed Your Tiger” contains four parts that stretch over 352 pages. After reading the first part, which also contains the aforementioned questionnaire, you will know what your energy type is. Besides that, Letha Hadady helps you understand the connection between your particular cravings and the most adequate foods, while also emphasizing that saturated fates are unhealthy regardless of your energy type. 

The second part of the book reveals the characteristics of each energy type. By making parallels between the dietary needs of the bear, tiger, dragon and crane, and your cravings, the author manages to create an effective way to lose weight.

Part 3 focuses on losing weight and keeping it off. Besides that, Letha Hadady shows you how to approach weight loss after 40. After this age, getting rid of the extra pounds is more difficult, so any advice is appreciated. 

Part 4 describes the changes that need to occur in your lifestyle so that excessive weight is eliminated and kept away. Eating out is another problem that is analyzed by the author. When confronted with a menu in a restaurant, you should make safe choices as miso soup or other healthy foods of Asian origin. Holiday fitness exercises have their own place in this book. According to the author, physical exercises represent another secret that explains why Asian people are so healthy. 

The Verdict

Since the book describes a new way of approaching weight loss, many of the concepts need to be detailed thoroughly. Letha Hadady does this admirably and leaves few questions unanswered, if any. As a person who oscillates between buying and not buying a certain diet book, you should check the effectiveness of the described weight loss method. In addition, the fact that a certain dietary plan is backed up by scientific proof and by controlled observational studies should also represent a convincing factor. Letha Hadady’s book has all these qualities and in consequence, is recommended to all the people who wish to lose weight in an effective, healthy and innovative way. 

The Cancer Survival Cookbook By Donna Weihofen

Author: Donna Weihofen
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated (January 1998)

A cancer cookbook can be a lifesaver for someone who is facing a battle with the deadly disease.  The choice of cookbooks claiming cancer-fighting recipes is vast, but “The Cancer Survival Cookbook” by Donna Weihofen offers simple low fat recipes and helpful advice that can help during the cancer battle and recovery. While this isn’t your typical cookbook with food and wine pairings, the other helpful tips more than make up for that.

Types of Recipes

The various recipes found in the cookbook are simple and focus on maintaining a balanced low fat diet. The recipes include main courses, desserts, appetizers and other typical cookbook sections, however, this cookbook also contains a section called the “soft, chopped and pureed diet.” This last section is ideal for people who are having trouble eating due to their cancer and/or their cancer treatment.

Healthy Eating Tips

This cookbook also contains healthy eating tips that will improve the entire family’s diet. This book is not just helpful for cancer patients, but is an excellent source of information on healthful eating for everyone. Cancer patients often feel isolated, and by creating a cookbook that is so flexible, it helps everyone be healthier together.

Specific Tips for Cancer Patients

People battling cancer and recovering from cancer have unique needs in terms of nutrition and complications with eating.  Nausea is common as is loss of appetite. The cookbook offers herbal remedies and other ideas that can help.

This cookbook is a great resource regardless of your health with high quality recipes throughout; you’ll be saying bon appetit. People looking to learn more about healthy recipes and who want great recipes to use while battling cancer will enjoy this book.

 

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