Reviews for Human nutrition

The average rating for Human nutrition based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-05-29 00:00:00 Ron Ready I was more impressed than I thought I would be. The author mostly advocates a vegan diet. She goes into details on the dangers of sugar, white flour, meat, dairy, fat, chemicals, & caffeine and is pretty compelling. The book has charts for cooking dry beans and grains, & a chart of alternative sweeteners that I found interesting. She also discusses creating a healthy relationship between food and hunger with your kids and having fun as a family. There are chapters specific for each age group of kids from babies (the benefits of breastmilk) through college. But then, you get to the recipes and I was wondering if I was still reading the same book! All her breakfast recipes include eggs. I'm not totally opposed to eggs, but you can make tasty pancakes and muffins without eggs so why use them? Especially in a book where she's just gotten done talking about the health dangers of animal products. She never addresses eggs one way or the other. And then in the entree section, every other recipe has turkey or chicken. And again, I'm not totally always opposed myself to some organic meat, but didn't she just get done talking about the dangers of meat and how she hasn't eaten it in 22 years??? And I think the most jaw dropping recipe of all was french fries. She repeatedly bashes fast food french fries but here on page 252 is a recipe for deep friend french fries. Not oven baked fries, but twice fried fries in "cooking oil for deep frying". Are they really healthier if you make them at home?? And once again, we do eat some chick fil a french fries around here but I just wouldn't expect to find a recipe for them in a healthy kids cookbook. The majority of the rest of the recipes were sort of standard old recipes with substitutions like "soy milk" instead of "milk", "soy cheese" instead of "cheese" and "nayonnaise" instead of "mayo". I can make those substitutions on my own, I don't need a cookbook for them. But, other than that, I really did like and enjoy the book.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-09-06 00:00:00 Aaron Friedman People who have heard of Marilu Henner and her THM theories might know what they are getting into when they pick up this book. I did not. I was expecting tips on getting my toddler how to eat healthy foods, convince my kids that exercise is fun, etc. There was some of that in this book, but definitely not the bulk of the text. She spends pages explaining why we shouldn't eat any type of meat, dairy or processed foods, with what I felt was very little evidence to back up her claims (no sources directly cited, scanty bibliography). She does not address the issue of replacing calcium needs generally met by dairy, and it appears from the recipes at the back of the book that she is replacing most dairy products with soy alternatives. American cheese slices made out of soy? How is that possibly a "live" or "unprocessed" food? How can that possibly be better for you than naturally aged dairy cheese? She also does not discuss allergies or other problems associated with soy. I'm all for edamame snacks, but this author takes it too far for my taste.