by Tanya Zuckerbrot
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A top nutritionist reveals the secret to permanent weight loss.
To help her busy clients ditch the fad diets,Tanya Zuckerbrot spent more than a decade designing a healthful, delicious, sustainable diet that sheds pounds, boosts energy, lowers cholesterol, and reduces the risk of heart disease and diabetes. The F-Factor Diet presents a fresh take on eating high-fiber carbs, and reveals the secrets to satisfying meals and lasting weight loss, including:
- A simple three-stage program
- A wide array of food choices
- More than 75 delicious recipes-from appetizers through desserts-and a complete set of guidelines for those who don't want to cook
- Journal pages and helpful hints to keep dieters on track
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Bland and boring!, 2008-06-30
I thought this book would be just what I was looking for, to add high fiber recipes to our meal planning, boy was I wrong. We sampled a few of the recipes and found them to be high in fiber, but low in taste. I think the author has some sort of distaste for spices. The best, or worst, example of this is the Pasta Bolognese. It was a runny, flavorless offering. Four cups of various liquids and only a teaspoon of oregano, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper......what's with that? This recipe, like the others we tried, required quite a bit of "doctoring" just to make them edible. The part that made no sense to me, was that the addition of a few spices improved the taste considerable, yet, it did not compromise the fiber content or the goal of the recipe. It is this reviewers opinion that Ms. Zuckerbrot's concept is sound, but her recipes are terrible!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Some good stuff, some old stuff, 2008-04-06
I have read through this book and think there are good points and bad points. First of all, the bad. I think that this book is highly misleading. She states a lot of times in the beginning that it is not a low carb diet and she will not be taking away your carbs, but in the first stage, she takes away almost 100% of your carbs, leaving you with only high fiber cereal, very specific crackers that are very high fiber w/o carbs and a single piece of fruit. In addition, she does not let you have yogurt or milk the first phase. Like all the other low carb diets, you are allowed as much meat and veggies as you want. Additionally, if you remain on this diet the rest of your life, you are forever counting and limiting your carbs to a total of 75 a day. Granted that is a lot more than some low carb diets, but still, a limit nonetheless.
Also I was very disappointed in her fiber suggestions. You'd think that since this book is about fiber, she would tell you all about how to get it in your diet. She does not. She dedicates a few pages in the beginning with a limited list of the fibers in various foods. In the recipe section, you would expect her to have loads of recipes with extremely high fiber counts. There are not. Most of the recipes have only 5 g of fiber or less per serving. There are lots of other cookbooks out there about healthy eating that have a lot more fiber in them than she gives you. Finally, the only way you actually get fiber on her diet is to eat high fiber cereal. She says she wants you eating 30-35 g of fiber a day. She starts off saying most people get 9-11 g a day. Here's her breakdown. At some point in the day, have a serving of the high fiber cereal: 13 g of fiber. Have up to 8 of her high fiber crackers that have 3 g in each cracker. Let's say you are moderate and have 4 crackers a day: 12 g of fiber. That totals 25 g of fiber. Minus that from the higher number you are supposed to have each day (35 g) and you are left w/ 10 g of fiber to get from your diet, which is exactly what you were getting before starting this "diet". She could have summed up the book in a few sentences: Eat high fiber cereal for breakfast and 2 or 3x a day have a high fiber cracker or 2 and you'll get the fiber you need. She really never goes into detail on how to get more fiber through whole foods in your diet.
The one good thing about this book is the recipes. They look fantastic! There are a lot of veggies in almost every recipe and they are very unique-I haven't really seen these ideas before. So for me, the book was worth it for the recipes but for the actual "diet" it's basically a complete scam.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 F-Factor Forever, 2008-04-06
I was looking for a book about nutrition when I stumbled upon the F-Factor. This book by any means is not a "diet" book, but simply put it is for a very healthy life style. I read it from cover to cover and follow it daily. I have not felt this good in years. I am a 50 year old male with a very active lifestyle. This book has changed my diet habits for the better and not to mention the health benifits that are going on internally as well as looking better on the exterior. I love the way the author combines diet with nutrition tips. Best money I have spent in years. Awesome.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
F-Factor Diet, 2007-10-01
Although I haven't finished the book yet, I have found what I've read so far to be very informative.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Love this book, 2007-08-28
I absolutely love this book and am having very good success with it. I think we've all gotten away from eating the way we should, and this book brings us back to the way we all should eat. It's easy to understand, it's interesting, and it works! I found the book because I'm having gallbladder issues and needed to find a lowfat, high fiber diet and this one is wonderful.
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