--- product_id: 245133 title: "Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition" price: "AED 90" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/245133-eat-to-live-the-amazing-nutrient-rich-program-for-fast store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # 6-week transformative plan fast, sustained weight loss nutrient-dense, plant-based focus Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition **Price:** AED 90 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ₯¦ Transform your plate, transform your life β€” Eat to Live and thrive! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition - **How much does it cost?** AED 90 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/245133-eat-to-live-the-amazing-nutrient-rich-program-for-fast) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Health Beyond Weight Loss:** Live longer, reduce medication dependency, and dramatically improve overall wellness with a nutrient-rich lifestyle. - β€’ **Revolutionary 6-Week Plan:** Lose weight faster with a scientifically updated, easy-to-follow program designed for lasting results. - β€’ **Nutrient-Dense Recipes Included:** Enjoy fresh, delicious, and health-boosting recipes that make clean eating effortless and enjoyable. - β€’ **Beat Toxic Hunger & Food Addiction:** Understand and overcome cravings with breakthrough insights into 'toxic hunger' and true nutrient-driven satiety. - β€’ **No Calorie Counting or Deprivation:** Achieve optimum health and weight without obsessing over calories or feeling hungryβ€”freedom meets science. ## Overview Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss is a fully revised edition featuring Dr. Fuhrman's scientifically backed six-week plan. It offers groundbreaking insights into food addiction and 'toxic hunger,' empowering readers to lose weight quickly and sustainably through nutrient-dense, plant-based eating. With new recipes and updated FAQs, this program not only accelerates weight loss but also promotes longevity, reduces medication needs, and enhances overall health without calorie counting or deprivation. ## Description The Eat To Live 2011 revised edition includes updated scientific research supporting Dr. Fuhrman's revolutionary six-week plan and a brand new chapter highlighting Dr. Fuhrman's discovery of toxic hunger and the role of food addiction in weight issues. This new chapter provides novel and important insights into weight gain. It explains how and why eating the wrong foods causes toxic hunger and the desire to over consume calories; whereas a diet of high micronutrient quality causes true hunger which decreases the sensations leading to food cravings and overeating behaviors. It instructs readers on how to leave behind the discomfort of toxic hunger, cravings, and addictions to unhealthy foods. New recipes and menus are included as well as new and updated Frequently Asked Questions. This is a book that will let you live longer, reduce your need for medications, and improve your health dramatically. It is a book that will change the way you want to eat. Most importantly, if you follow the Eat To Liveβ„’ diet, you will lose weight faster than you ever thought possible. Review: Best Heath, Nutrition, and Weight-Loss Book I've Ever Read! - I've been reading tons of health books lately and researching plant-based diets via the web. "Eat to Live" is by far the best book on nutrition I've found. It is so worthwhile, I'm even willing to write a review! If you're even remotely interested in maintaining your health for a vibrant lifestyle, this book is a must-read. If you've failed on every other diet for weight loss, this book offers the most hope and healthiest approach yet! If you're struggling with climbing cholesterol and blood pressure, implementing the ideas in this book can reduce them. Although I highly recommend reading (1) "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell to understand the science-supported perils of meat and dairy and (2) "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Caldwell B. Esselstyn to maintain a healthy cardiovascular system, "Eat to Live" brings it all together. This book brings the concept of nutrient density into the picture for achieving optimum health. Without focusing on counting calories or eliminating food groups, you learn how to reach your optimum health and weight without feeling hungry or deprived. For the first time since menopause hit (I'm 54 years old), I've been able to shed those hard to lose pounds, the ones that crept up after 45, the stubborn pounds that stayed put no matter what I tried. Using this book's advice, I gradually added more and more nutrient-dense food and eliminated nutrient-poor choices. The better I became at this, the more weight just fell off and the more vibrant I felt. Now I focus on keeping a high-raw diet (50-60% raw??) which allows me to eat as much as I want all day while maintaining my optimum weight. My cholesterol, which used to be very low and climbed to 202 during the last decade, has fallen back down to 145! In just 5 months of using this book's principles, my husband also lost 10 lbs. and has reached his ideal weight - without even trying to lose. We were simply seeking to improve our nutrition enough to reduce his cholesterol and blood pressure, so the weight loss was a very nice bonus. His blood pressure is down to a very healthy level and the cholesterol is slowly falling (very high cholesterol runs in his family). How do we do it? Using some of the book's suggestions, we typically start with a huge veggie/fruit smoothie plus a bowl of hot grain cereal (oat & buckwheat groats) breakfast, homemade black bean dip with fresh veggies on a sandwich plus fruit for lunch, and a hot veggie-loaded soup or savory beans over rice with salad for dinner. Snacks include carrot sticks and cinnamon apple slices. Fresh veggies and fruit are ALWAYS brought along when we travel. We eat no meat or dairy at home, but don't fret about eating some as guests in other homes and at vegetable-challenged restaurants. I wish we had known the information in this book decades ago. I honestly wish this book was required reading in our schools so people at least have the knowledge to eat healthily if they choose to do so. I wish you all the best with YOUR health journey! Review: This Diet Is Wonderful - My original review was scattershot, though I've placed it in the comments section because I believe it makes several points in defense of Atkins. Let me first say that I absolutely love the diet in this book. I have had my sister put my niece on this diet, and she has already lost 15 pounds, and her blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol are already becoming normal and it's been only 3 weeks. What I don't like about this book is the rabid attack on meat, fish, saturated fats, and the poor science he uses to back it up. I've decided to go through each of the researches that he put in his notes--incredibly difficult to track down mind you, because his notes weren't the best. My friend read the original review, and suggested I go back and reread the book, so I could see some of the major contradictions on meat. The thing is that for the most part, I am a vegetarian. My reason for defending meat is simply a distaste for bias science. I am not a fan of a person who says in Chapter 4: The science is as conclusive between meat and cancer as cigarettes and cancer. And then on Chapter 6 pg. 161 bottom paragraph, says, "Although it would be wrong to say that animal foods are the sole cause of cancer, it is now clear the increased consumption of animal products COMBINED with decreased consumption of fresh products has the most powerful effect of INCREASING one's risk for various kinds of cancer." The science on smoking causing cancer is not correlative it is causal, which is to say, if you smoke your chance of cancer increases exponentially, whether or not you exercise, eat vegetables, or take vitamin supplements--smoking has carcinogenic qualities that will effect your health. The science on high protein diets that have found causal cancer links--the studies he himself quotes--have always been in the absence of other nutrient based foods, which makes the studies correlative, which is to say, a person must increase animal protein, while decreasing nutrients. Now, you might be saying, well they're of course going to decrease nutrients because, if they were eating 1500 calories of vegetables, and their adding meat but keeping 1500 calories, they would have to cut vegetables. But this is not what the studies did. The studies that he quotes that studies cultures were between cultures who ate a majority of vegetables, and societies who ate high starch foods and meats--in each case, the meat group ate more carbohydrates than the vegetable group. Such as note 41 in chapter 4, page 334, the study of china women and breast cancer. The breast cancer in women came, yes, at a decrease of vegetables, increase of meat, but, also, an increase of rice, and other starches. He also tries to link meat consumption with early puberty for females. This is untrue, as any biologist and physiologist will tell you--the original scare of hormones in meat causing early puberty, was just that, a scare. It is weight that determines a girls entrance into puberty--specifically weight distribution, it's why anorexic's stop having periods, why gymnast never start until they stop training--and why again the enemy is processed carbohydrates which show constantly to be the cause of weight gain. He also says that the average age of puberty was once 17. Given that the average age of individuals until the mid 1800's was 30, and most young women were married off by 14 and having children, the science and history shows 13 to 14 were the average age. He makes statements that have now been disproven by the sheer number of people who have succeeded at weight loss on Atkins, South Beach, and the Core Diet. Fat--especially saturated fat--does not make you fat, and, at least in the first year (almost universally agreed and seen by doctors), they lower cholesterol, increase HDL, increase good LDL, and lower bad LDL, also, it lowers blood sugar, and high blood pressure. His constant repetition of the Lipid Hypothesis--a study that has remained a hypothesis for fifty years--is sad for a man who truly does seem to want to help people. I believe Dr. Fuhrman is a militant vegan, who also wants to help his patients, so, he tries to scare people away from eating meat, because he doesn't believe people should eat meat, not because the science is conclusive on meats causing problems--conclusive enough for him, as long as he ignores the other science out there. Dr. Oz wrote the forward and Dr. Oz raves about the health benefits of salmon on his show every week, so they're at a disagreement. The fact is that birth defects through fish consumption has been seen only through heavy eating of heavy metal fish, and the link is scarce at best--since these birth defects could've existed without the food, and often do. The greatest travesty in this book, in my opinion, is that he holds that weight gain comes from overeating. I was a vegetarian, eating whole wheat bread, pasta, vegetables, and fruit, exercising two miles a day, and consuming no more than 2500 calories a day (I was doing weight watchers at the time) weighing 280 pounds, eating only when I was hungry, which meant, some days, I'd have 600 calories, somedays I'd have 2500 calories. I gained weight weekly. Did I mention I was drinking only water? When I cut down all refined carbohydrates, limited my fruit intake to no more than 2 servings a day (snacks), and ate vegetables four times a day, whether or not I was hungry, I lost 80 pounds--of course, without proper plant or animal fat and protein, a lot of that weight loss was in my muscles. I've read over a 1,000 documents (over a hundred of those documents being books) on health, nutrition, diets, physiology, and psychology. I've looked at my own body. I've looked at family. My cousin's children, both fed the same diet, both eat roughly the same amount of food, one is morbidly obese, the other is skinny as a rail. It's why portion control and low fat diets don't work. Though he believes it's toxicity of the food, it's because the food triggers insulin. Insulin Sensitivity is the cause of weight gain, people with high insulin sensitivity cannot gain weight even when they try--which doesn't mean they can't be unhealthy--while people with low insulin sensitivity gain weight even while their making a conscious effor to lose it. Fat people do not become fat because they overeat, they overeat because their fat, which is to say, their fat cells refuse to feed the body, so they're hungry, and need to eat more. The number 1 driver of insulin is carbohydrates and sugar. However, and his the kicker, though eating vast amounts of plant vegetables will keep you from going into ketosis, complex carbohydrates will not and do not have the same effect on the body as pasta. Fruits and vegetables are the best sort of carbs to eat for an insulin sensitive body, and the necessary carbs to eat because they can balance the insulin sensitivity. Of course, one should keep fruit down to a minimum, two to five servings in my opinion, while vegetables should be 10 to 15 servings. None of what I wrote above disproves his diet, in fact, everything I wrote about insulin holds his diet high. That's what makes Dr. Joel Fuhrman's arguments and poor science saddening. His diet is one of the best diets a person can go on, you'll feel wonderful, energized, the weight comes off so easily, you feel full all the time, and you never worry about counting calories, or measuring food, or any of that stuff. Dr. Fuhrman created one of the best diets I've seen and that I've tried out, he balances ones need for protein with hefty amounts of plant protein, ones need for fat, with natural plant fats from seeds and nuts. He hates meat, and that's fine. He quotes actual science that shows the correlative link to meat consumption and cancer. But, he also says in Chapter 8 that food should be your medicine. If we were to agree that meat causes cancer as a scientific fact, is there something that would be done that would allow you to eat meat and not have any negative effects... yes. Eating lots of fresh food the majority of the time counteracts any and all negative effects of meat. Meat is not like smoking, if you smoke, you do damage to your body each and every time, there is nothing that can counteract the damage of smoking except the cessation of it. WHen you eat meat, there are nutrients and vitamins that can't be found in anything else, and any and all damage that meat can cause is cessated by eating more greens as well. So instead of meat and potatoes, eat meat and broccoli with a side salad. Buy this book, whether or not he uses bias science to disparage something he doesn't like, Dr. Fuhrman has created a diet that will not only promote your good health, but could and should save your life. I am impressed with this book, I read it in one day each time that I read it. It is absolutely brilliant. You'll feel wonderful, you'll glow, and in weeks friends will notice the difference... and the opposite sex--or same sex if that's how you play it--will notice as well because your skin will get healthier, your body will get healthier, and you'll feel and exude health. ## Features - COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED (ORIGINAL EAT TO LIVE PUBLISHED IN 2003) - REVOLUTIONARY SIX-WEEK EATING PLAN TO LOSING WEIGHT - NEW INSIGHT TO FOOD ADDICTION, "TOXIC HUNGER" AND HOW TO OVERCOME - NEW RECIPES - LIVE LONGER, REDUCE NEED FOR MEDICATIONS AND DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #27,775 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #14 in Low Fat Diets (Books) #36 in Weight Loss Diets (Books) #77 in Other Diet Books | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,370 Reviews | ## Images ![Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71sU8yQHofL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best Heath, Nutrition, and Weight-Loss Book I've Ever Read! *by S***Y on December 15, 2011* I've been reading tons of health books lately and researching plant-based diets via the web. "Eat to Live" is by far the best book on nutrition I've found. It is so worthwhile, I'm even willing to write a review! If you're even remotely interested in maintaining your health for a vibrant lifestyle, this book is a must-read. If you've failed on every other diet for weight loss, this book offers the most hope and healthiest approach yet! If you're struggling with climbing cholesterol and blood pressure, implementing the ideas in this book can reduce them. Although I highly recommend reading (1) "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell to understand the science-supported perils of meat and dairy and (2) "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Caldwell B. Esselstyn to maintain a healthy cardiovascular system, "Eat to Live" brings it all together. This book brings the concept of nutrient density into the picture for achieving optimum health. Without focusing on counting calories or eliminating food groups, you learn how to reach your optimum health and weight without feeling hungry or deprived. For the first time since menopause hit (I'm 54 years old), I've been able to shed those hard to lose pounds, the ones that crept up after 45, the stubborn pounds that stayed put no matter what I tried. Using this book's advice, I gradually added more and more nutrient-dense food and eliminated nutrient-poor choices. The better I became at this, the more weight just fell off and the more vibrant I felt. Now I focus on keeping a high-raw diet (50-60% raw??) which allows me to eat as much as I want all day while maintaining my optimum weight. My cholesterol, which used to be very low and climbed to 202 during the last decade, has fallen back down to 145! In just 5 months of using this book's principles, my husband also lost 10 lbs. and has reached his ideal weight - without even trying to lose. We were simply seeking to improve our nutrition enough to reduce his cholesterol and blood pressure, so the weight loss was a very nice bonus. His blood pressure is down to a very healthy level and the cholesterol is slowly falling (very high cholesterol runs in his family). How do we do it? Using some of the book's suggestions, we typically start with a huge veggie/fruit smoothie plus a bowl of hot grain cereal (oat & buckwheat groats) breakfast, homemade black bean dip with fresh veggies on a sandwich plus fruit for lunch, and a hot veggie-loaded soup or savory beans over rice with salad for dinner. Snacks include carrot sticks and cinnamon apple slices. Fresh veggies and fruit are ALWAYS brought along when we travel. We eat no meat or dairy at home, but don't fret about eating some as guests in other homes and at vegetable-challenged restaurants. I wish we had known the information in this book decades ago. I honestly wish this book was required reading in our schools so people at least have the knowledge to eat healthily if they choose to do so. I wish you all the best with YOUR health journey! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This Diet Is Wonderful *by C***R on September 5, 2011* My original review was scattershot, though I've placed it in the comments section because I believe it makes several points in defense of Atkins. Let me first say that I absolutely love the diet in this book. I have had my sister put my niece on this diet, and she has already lost 15 pounds, and her blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol are already becoming normal and it's been only 3 weeks. What I don't like about this book is the rabid attack on meat, fish, saturated fats, and the poor science he uses to back it up. I've decided to go through each of the researches that he put in his notes--incredibly difficult to track down mind you, because his notes weren't the best. My friend read the original review, and suggested I go back and reread the book, so I could see some of the major contradictions on meat. The thing is that for the most part, I am a vegetarian. My reason for defending meat is simply a distaste for bias science. I am not a fan of a person who says in Chapter 4: The science is as conclusive between meat and cancer as cigarettes and cancer. And then on Chapter 6 pg. 161 bottom paragraph, says, "Although it would be wrong to say that animal foods are the sole cause of cancer, it is now clear the increased consumption of animal products COMBINED with decreased consumption of fresh products has the most powerful effect of INCREASING one's risk for various kinds of cancer." The science on smoking causing cancer is not correlative it is causal, which is to say, if you smoke your chance of cancer increases exponentially, whether or not you exercise, eat vegetables, or take vitamin supplements--smoking has carcinogenic qualities that will effect your health. The science on high protein diets that have found causal cancer links--the studies he himself quotes--have always been in the absence of other nutrient based foods, which makes the studies correlative, which is to say, a person must increase animal protein, while decreasing nutrients. Now, you might be saying, well they're of course going to decrease nutrients because, if they were eating 1500 calories of vegetables, and their adding meat but keeping 1500 calories, they would have to cut vegetables. But this is not what the studies did. The studies that he quotes that studies cultures were between cultures who ate a majority of vegetables, and societies who ate high starch foods and meats--in each case, the meat group ate more carbohydrates than the vegetable group. Such as note 41 in chapter 4, page 334, the study of china women and breast cancer. The breast cancer in women came, yes, at a decrease of vegetables, increase of meat, but, also, an increase of rice, and other starches. He also tries to link meat consumption with early puberty for females. This is untrue, as any biologist and physiologist will tell you--the original scare of hormones in meat causing early puberty, was just that, a scare. It is weight that determines a girls entrance into puberty--specifically weight distribution, it's why anorexic's stop having periods, why gymnast never start until they stop training--and why again the enemy is processed carbohydrates which show constantly to be the cause of weight gain. He also says that the average age of puberty was once 17. Given that the average age of individuals until the mid 1800's was 30, and most young women were married off by 14 and having children, the science and history shows 13 to 14 were the average age. He makes statements that have now been disproven by the sheer number of people who have succeeded at weight loss on Atkins, South Beach, and the Core Diet. Fat--especially saturated fat--does not make you fat, and, at least in the first year (almost universally agreed and seen by doctors), they lower cholesterol, increase HDL, increase good LDL, and lower bad LDL, also, it lowers blood sugar, and high blood pressure. His constant repetition of the Lipid Hypothesis--a study that has remained a hypothesis for fifty years--is sad for a man who truly does seem to want to help people. I believe Dr. Fuhrman is a militant vegan, who also wants to help his patients, so, he tries to scare people away from eating meat, because he doesn't believe people should eat meat, not because the science is conclusive on meats causing problems--conclusive enough for him, as long as he ignores the other science out there. Dr. Oz wrote the forward and Dr. Oz raves about the health benefits of salmon on his show every week, so they're at a disagreement. The fact is that birth defects through fish consumption has been seen only through heavy eating of heavy metal fish, and the link is scarce at best--since these birth defects could've existed without the food, and often do. The greatest travesty in this book, in my opinion, is that he holds that weight gain comes from overeating. I was a vegetarian, eating whole wheat bread, pasta, vegetables, and fruit, exercising two miles a day, and consuming no more than 2500 calories a day (I was doing weight watchers at the time) weighing 280 pounds, eating only when I was hungry, which meant, some days, I'd have 600 calories, somedays I'd have 2500 calories. I gained weight weekly. Did I mention I was drinking only water? When I cut down all refined carbohydrates, limited my fruit intake to no more than 2 servings a day (snacks), and ate vegetables four times a day, whether or not I was hungry, I lost 80 pounds--of course, without proper plant or animal fat and protein, a lot of that weight loss was in my muscles. I've read over a 1,000 documents (over a hundred of those documents being books) on health, nutrition, diets, physiology, and psychology. I've looked at my own body. I've looked at family. My cousin's children, both fed the same diet, both eat roughly the same amount of food, one is morbidly obese, the other is skinny as a rail. It's why portion control and low fat diets don't work. Though he believes it's toxicity of the food, it's because the food triggers insulin. Insulin Sensitivity is the cause of weight gain, people with high insulin sensitivity cannot gain weight even when they try--which doesn't mean they can't be unhealthy--while people with low insulin sensitivity gain weight even while their making a conscious effor to lose it. Fat people do not become fat because they overeat, they overeat because their fat, which is to say, their fat cells refuse to feed the body, so they're hungry, and need to eat more. The number 1 driver of insulin is carbohydrates and sugar. However, and his the kicker, though eating vast amounts of plant vegetables will keep you from going into ketosis, complex carbohydrates will not and do not have the same effect on the body as pasta. Fruits and vegetables are the best sort of carbs to eat for an insulin sensitive body, and the necessary carbs to eat because they can balance the insulin sensitivity. Of course, one should keep fruit down to a minimum, two to five servings in my opinion, while vegetables should be 10 to 15 servings. None of what I wrote above disproves his diet, in fact, everything I wrote about insulin holds his diet high. That's what makes Dr. Joel Fuhrman's arguments and poor science saddening. His diet is one of the best diets a person can go on, you'll feel wonderful, energized, the weight comes off so easily, you feel full all the time, and you never worry about counting calories, or measuring food, or any of that stuff. Dr. Fuhrman created one of the best diets I've seen and that I've tried out, he balances ones need for protein with hefty amounts of plant protein, ones need for fat, with natural plant fats from seeds and nuts. He hates meat, and that's fine. He quotes actual science that shows the correlative link to meat consumption and cancer. But, he also says in Chapter 8 that food should be your medicine. If we were to agree that meat causes cancer as a scientific fact, is there something that would be done that would allow you to eat meat and not have any negative effects... yes. Eating lots of fresh food the majority of the time counteracts any and all negative effects of meat. Meat is not like smoking, if you smoke, you do damage to your body each and every time, there is nothing that can counteract the damage of smoking except the cessation of it. WHen you eat meat, there are nutrients and vitamins that can't be found in anything else, and any and all damage that meat can cause is cessated by eating more greens as well. So instead of meat and potatoes, eat meat and broccoli with a side salad. Buy this book, whether or not he uses bias science to disparage something he doesn't like, Dr. Fuhrman has created a diet that will not only promote your good health, but could and should save your life. I am impressed with this book, I read it in one day each time that I read it. It is absolutely brilliant. You'll feel wonderful, you'll glow, and in weeks friends will notice the difference... and the opposite sex--or same sex if that's how you play it--will notice as well because your skin will get healthier, your body will get healthier, and you'll feel and exude health. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and I am doing it again now and so far so good. However *by Y***R on January 12, 2016* I did this diet years ago and lost 30 pounds...and I am doing it again now and so far so good. However, this time I'm doing it as a fast for 6 weeks, and once the fast is over I'm going to use a great deal of the information in my daily life. I plan to do this every year. I personally think EVERYONE should read this book. That being said... there are some cons to this diet. Here's a pros and cons list: Pro: 1) This book is extremely well-researched and has great information. Over the years I've used it as more than just a "diet" book but also as a reference book on overall health 2) The diet works. If you follow Dr. Fuhrman's rules, you will lose weight, and you will lose it fast. There's nothing as motivating as seeing weight fall off right from the start and you don't even need to exercise... although it is highly recommended since exercise is good for your health and will help the weight come off even faster. However, this is not the kind of diet that requires you to be in the gym day in and day out in order for you to start seeing results 3) If you follow Dr. Fuhrman's daily intake recommendations, you will not go hungry. In fact, when you first start you'll feel guilty about eating the amount of food he requires. You'll wonder if you'll really lose weight, and when you do you'll be at awe that weight loss doesn't need to include starvation. 4)The tips and advice you learn from Dr. Fuhrman are priceless and they are things you can continue to do even if you decide to do your own thing. For example, you learn to rethink the dinner plate so that your vegetables and salad is the main dish and everything else is more like sides and condiments. Starting every meal with a gigantic salad is a good way to not overeat on other things. 5)This diet will help you build a salt and sugar sensitivity...even if you start eating those things again, it won't be the same 6) Even though Dr. Fuhrman might not like people deviating from his plan... his tips and advice educates you well enough so that you can incorporate the information in something a little different... something for example, that might fit your needs better 7) Dr. Furhman offers 3 lifestyles: vegan, vegetarian and near vegetarian which allows people to pick what best suits them 8) Eat to live opens the door to so many produce options that most don't ever think of Cons 1) For someone like Dr. Furhrman "to live" is to live long without pain and medication, and that's great. Again, that's great. He also wants you to achieve superior health which also means being the skinniest you possible. Personally, I want to lose weight and I want to be healthy but I'm also not trying to compete for the healthiest person in the world medal. Physical health is important, but there's also your mental and spiritual health and all three work together to create balance, true... but the ability to enjoy moments like getting together with friends and enjoying a good meal, or traveling and being able to try local cuisine and so on, are things that are important to me as a person. And while I want to be a healthy size, I also don't need to be the skinniest possible. If your definition of living also includes being able to try things and relax without fussing all the time because you have 100 diet rules, then this diet, fully as it is, will not be a practical life-long plan. Again... I think a lot of the advice is great and can be used forever, such as increasing the amount of vegetables you eat and making that the main dish, starting every meal with a salad, eating less salt, sugar, and minimizing the amount of meat you eat are all great things that you can do forever. However, as a whole, this diet is too restrictive. 2) While I find Dr. Furhrman informative and this book pretty accurate, I don't agree with all of his assessments and conclusions. 3) Along with the restrictive idea... the cooked foods are bland and it takes a while to learn tips and tricks to make your dishes decent. The salads can be tasty, and you'll learn to have a new appreciation for fruit because you're not eating all that refined sugar, also--if you're getting fresh vegetables... raw veggies will also become your good friend...but other than that, a lot of the "joy" of eating is removed... which is both good and bad. It's good because you don't spend the whole day anticipating lunch and dinner. It's bad because as a lifelong plan that's just sad if you can't enjoy the potentials of the culinary arts. Life is a balance...and this might be too extreme on one end. 4)To make meals more interesting and even exciting... Dr. Furhman encourages variety--- which is good. I even had that as one of the pros. However, this can get really expensive. Due to the amount of produce he wants you to eat and the variety he recommends , this is not a cheap diet. If you live in a food dessert... as I do... variety can also be hard to obtain. The first time I did the diet, I lived in Chicago and it was pretty easy to get my hands on all sorts of produce, but it's definately a greater challenge now. All in all, you really should just read the book and try it for yourself. It's definately worth a try. In the beginning, I also recommend following his diet as closely as possibly for as long as possible if you're trying to lose a lot of weight. Whatever you decide, I guarantee you'll get something of value from the book. I will continue to incorporate his most important points to my daily life long after the 6 weeks, and every year I will do his 6-week plan as a fast. However, a long term plan for me will also include flavor, some salt (not too much), whole fats (I'm a believer that full fats are better for you than fat-free and low-fat products), fish, some meat, wine, spirits, and the occasional chocolate. Michael Pollan actually says it best when he says: "Eat real food. Not too much. 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