Title: Easy Health Diet: Manage Weight and Prevent Scary Diseases

AUTHOR: Donald A, Miller, Ph.D.

ISBN: 0974167541

Every day the media inundates us with all kinds of advice pertaining to diets. Individuals calling themselves experts come up with the diet of the day that according to them is sure to solve all of your problems. These may be drugs, surgery, foods to avoid, etc. Some of these suggestions have a certain amount of validity; however, others are nothing more than myths.

Donald A. Miller, Ph.D. has written numerous articles pertaining to health, and as he states in the forward to his book, Easy Health Diet: Manage Weight and Prevent Scary Diseases, he was disgusted with the amount of misinformation being dished out concerning health, diet, weight loss, and fitness.

Consequently, he set out to try and present a practical guide for the layman, wherein the emphasis is placed on common sense rather than, as he terms it, “crack-pot ideas that make wealthy gurus.”

Miller deals with a multitude of topics and as he asserts- the book’s material is presented for informative purposes; what you do with it is up to you and your medical doctor. We are told that exercise is not enough for weight control. The kinds of foods we consume are crucial in maintaining a healthy diet, such as soy, which Miller fully examines in order to demonstrate its benefits. The author points out that if his breakfast contains extremely little fat of any kind, he feels light- headed and develops strong hunger pains well before lunchtime. He proceeds to explain that it is good to consume a small amount of low fat such as cheese, toast with margarine, along with other foods. Evidently, protein concentrates without fat do not head off hunger.

Several of Miller’s own creative nutritious recipes are introduced, each explaining why they are good for one’s health, such as oriental shepherd’s pie, twenty minute beef and soy stew. These recipes focus on ingenuity in cutting down on saturated fats and sugars, without, as Miller, explains, going crazy in the efforts.   

Every branch of knowledge has its own distinct lexicon, and the author supplies his readers with short list of terms and their meanings listed alphabetically that we often come across in the media. In addition, as further sources, readers are referred to numerous interesting web sites and free health articles where useful information can be secured. It is to be noted, that there is an e-book version of the book that integrates active hyper links within its pages, as well as several useful Internet addresses.

The information contained in the book is excellent, but with an undertaking of this kind, better chapter organization and informative subheads would have been welcome, as well as the inclusion of an index. There is also a lack of good editing that would have weaned out many of the typographical, spelling and grammatical errors.