Reviews for 501 Easy Health Tips: Food and Drink*Nutrition and Health*Weight Loss*Fitness*Well-Being

The average rating for 501 Easy Health Tips: Food and Drink*Nutrition and Health*Weight Loss*Fitness*Well-Being based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-23 00:00:00 Robert Carbone I picked this book up so I could learn more about what I can do to "green" up my life. I did learn a bit, but I did not really enjoy this book. I was hopeful at first - the author writes like she is having a conversation with me. Somewhere around the third chapter she began shamelessly promoting her husbands green cleaning product line, and that's where I lost interest. She presents proof that this product line is better than other green cleaning products, but she doesn't give fair reviews of the other products. Since I am not going to mail-order my cleaning supplies, this information was nice, but not useful to me. The later chapters gave better recommendations for products I can purchase at my natural grocery store, but only because her husband isn't the competition. I am not saying that her products aren't great (or that they aren't the best!), but I didn't buy the book so I could read an advertisement. Furthermore, I would have liked to see more tables. I want something I can copy and take with me to the store, with a list of recommended brands for different products. Instead, the recommendations are listed throughout the book so you have to skip back and forth to view the info. All that being said, I appreciate the effort on the author's part. This is a topic that needs more coverage, and she does an excellent job of citing her facts.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-04-05 00:00:00 Max Leidermann We got this free with a year-end contribution to the EWG. I think I have seen the author on Oprah. If I'd paid for this book I'd be mad. Entire sections were her promoting Shaklee products (and her husband is the chairman of the company or something like that). I did learn a few things, which is starting to be less and less frequent with the number of green books I've read. It's a good book for a newbie to green living, although at times a little on the overkill with repeating the bad chemical names. And it might just turn you into a Shaklee junkie ;)