How to Eat

Finally a book that promotes sensible eating as a method to loose weight and sustain a healthy life. Touches on the lifestyle and manufacturers responsibility, and the difficultly and misleading way so many of us end up consuming the wrong foods without even realising.
Explains all the myths and how research can be missed lead from its conception.
Although this book itself won't give you an eating plan or sell you a diet programme, the main ethos of healthy food, cooking and avoiding large amounts manufactured and for vast profit foods is prevalent throughout.
They style of writing is easy to read, light hearted and funny, down to earth and gets to the every day conflicting questions that bounce back and forth in popularity.

We all know what we should be eating to be healthy, but how easy is it really to eat well? In an age of confusion, conflicting advice and pressure to follow trends, this book is a beacon of common sense.

Following a very accessible and readable question-and-answer style, the authors take the reader through a wide range of current diet topics, explaining why certain foods and particular approaches to eating can impair our health and wellbeing.

The overall message is simple, and builds on Michael Pollen's famous quote: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants'. But the authors show how the proliferation of different fads and dietary fashions can blur what this truly means. I particularly welcomed their advice to take a macro approach to what I eat as a whole. It is a relief to know that a meticulous focus on percentages of this or that food group is not necessary for achieving a good diet (in the sense of what we eat, rather than as a way to lose weight).

I am happy to have read this book - it feels like an excellent brain-reset back to an ordinary and obvious way of eating. What a relief!

With grateful thanks to the publisher for a review copy via NetGalley.

Such good stuff! Written with a delightfully casual Q&A style, Mark and David's book is a neat, informative look at better ways to eat. The information here might not be radically new, but there are some really interesting concepts here that you don't normally see in books like this. One such concept is the "instead of" idea when it comes to deciding what's best to eat. "Are eggs good for me?", you might ask. Mark and David suggest that a good way to answer that question is to consider what you will eat eggs "instead of". Are you eating them "instead of" bagels and syrup-soaked pancakes? Then "yes" they are good for you! Much in here is practical, sensible advice that draws from the idea that a plant-based diet is undeniably best, but that it's OK to indulge now and again. And it's also just fine not to obsess over every calorie and macronutrient, so long as your diet consists of lots of leafy greens, nuts, and water (and more). Really quick read, a lot of fun, not preachy -- a great recommendation for readers wanting direct info about the best foods.

How to Eat is an interesting book on what we eat. The Q&A style of the book makes it easy to read and digest, and makes reading a pleasant experience.
While I'm not sure if I fully agree with everything said in the book, it raises some good questions about what we eat and why. (And thus what should we consider changing in our diet). The book is quite informative and there's a list of sources in the back, which came as a pleasant surprise, even though I consider it a must with this type of literature.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Scribe UK for providing me with a free digital copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.*

For anyone bombarded with messages about the types of food they should be eating, How To Eat is a great place to start. It generates a simple message by taking a common-sense approach to food consumption to the level of doughnut bad, apple good.

It's written in a Q&A style which makes the subject better for the reader to understand and take in. There are books out there which will contain the scientific data about the nutritional value of, for example, an almond compared to a walnut. This book is not one of them and conveys a very simplified message of the correct choices to make when choosing how to change your diet to a more healthy one.

At times the approach helps to break up the subject into pieces of data so you do not get overloaded with technical details and the message of the correct choices to make is constantly reiterated.

This is a great place to start if you want to get to the truth about how to change your diet for the better.