Love Your Body: Lose Weight, Live Longer and Look Younger A New Diet Paradigm
John S. Griffin
This book doesn't lay out a written down plan but it goes further by giving you the information to help you make better decisions. It goes over some of the Diet Confusion, sugar, what Healthy whole grains and goes over some of the food labels. It also goes of the heath issue brought on by weight issues. This book was very good in education me on some of the question I had about dieting. Knowledge helps when making decision about what is the best way for you to loose weight and I felt the book helped me to understand what I needed better.

This book, Love Your Body: Lose Weight, Live Longer and Look Younger A New Diet Paradigm, is a health improvement book based on the author's 15 years of finding the right path to his own health. It is extremely science based as the title suggests, as it includes lots of research papers to back up his findings and theories, which are interesting and continue throughout the book.

There are around 20 chapters in this book and include chapters on a new way to think about food, clean eating, hacking the brain to name few. At the end of each chapter, 2 questions are asked on your understanding or what changes you could make.

The book does come to a conclusion that one diet works better than others alongside an exercise regime, based on the scientific research and the authors own lifestyle. It recommends baby steps to changing your attitude to food and exercise as this can be more sustainable than an all or nothing approach.

If your looking for a book that covers the scientific reasons for a lifestyle change then this is for you, but it is most certainly not a book that includes any recipes or meal plans for any diet.

I received this book in return for a honest review from #netgalley.

I found the book very boring, it did not engage me, I found reading about different foods tedious and I gave up at just over 50% and that was skimming some paragraphs. How much do I have to wade through to get to what you want me to do? I did not find the book inspiring or motivating. It is not for me.

[Note:  This book was provided free of charge by Books Go Social/Net Gallery.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.]

Anytime one reads a book on diet and nutrition and health in general [1], it is worthwhile to take note of what approach the author has concerning health and what his or her agenda is.  There is always going to be an agenda, and usually the agenda of the author is to set himself or herself as an authority on good health with some kind of radical ideal that will provide better health across a wide variety of health issues, including weight, blood pressure, diabetes, and related concerns.  This author of this book certainly has an agenda, and he has a lot of negative things to say about the official line on health that is promoted by the FDA.  Admittedly, this is not too surprising as the uncomfortable relationship between food regulation and companies like Monsanto in the United States is something that would make few people feel confident about the truthfulness and competence of our government to make suitable health regulations for diet, which this book focuses on.  As to whether or not this author's agenda is a good one, the jury is definitely still out on that one.

This book of about two hundred pages is focused on diet and exercise, as one would expect with this type of book, but it leans heavily on diet.  The author begins by talking about ways to think about food and some of the sources of diet confusion in food politics and business.  After that the author has some critical things to say about modern medicine and a lot to say about contemporary scientific debates regarding healthy diets, including the proliferation of Mediterranean diets as well as various low-cab diets--one of which the book reveals the author to be largely in support of, specifically the ketogenic diet.  After that the author spends several chapters talking about sugars, grains, fats and oils, and how one cannot judge food by its label because much about its context matters a great deal in how healthy it is.  At this point the author transitions to talking about clean eating and the need to make changes gradually so that they do not become overwhelming, showing how small changes over time can be leveraged into considerable health benefits.  It is at this point that the author talks about a variety of exercises that are meant to help someone lose weight around the belly while also building strength, which makes sense since the author is a bodybuilder.

To be sure, the author has a lot of wise advice to give about food and exercise that would likely improve the health of many people who read this book and takes its counsel.  The author also does a good job in lowering the stress level that people would have about the level of improvement and closeness to perfect that people would need to adopt a healthier view towards their diet and exercise in the author's mindset, an important aspect of what makes so many diets so difficult to continue on for the long-term.  Even so, there is much to question about concerning the author's approach, as he seems somewhat inconsistent in his hostility towards contemporary authorities in science and medicine while also seeking to draw authority from science and medicine where possible, especially in other nations like Israel.  The author's evolutionary paradigm is also certainly a dubious one, as it tends to focus attention on supposedly drastic changes in diet rather than the harmfulness of what is changed, as if the human body could develop, if given enough times, the means of digesting properly the sort of poisons and toxins that are inflicted upon us by the companies and institutions we rely upon to bring us safe food from the farm to the kitchen or restaurant.  As is often the case with books like this, there is some wise advice here and some folly, and one must be discerning in sifting among them and judicious in applying the author's supposed insights.

[1] See, for example:

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017/04/07/book-review-what-the-bible-says-about-healthy-living/

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2015/12/03/book-review-a-more-excellent-way-to-be-in-health/

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017/12/13/book-review-the-colorful-kitchen/

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017/12/13/book-review-the-healing-powers-of-tea/