Recently I was recommended a group of nutrition books of the name 'Eat This, Not That.' They aren't diet books, telling you to cut out whole food groups or eat specific amounts at specific times of day, but rather a guideline to make smarter choices. I loved the books (I got the original and supermarket versions) and would recommend them to anyone, be they perfectly in shape or a total fatty like me.
The thing about the books is that the author(s) don't tell you what not to eat. If you really want pizza, the books give you examples of the right type vs. the wrong type of pizza to eat. There are best and worst of any type of food you can imagine, plus the brands. The supermarket book in particular will change your mode of, well, thinking about the food you partake in.
Another truly awesome part of the books is that the author(s) don't rate the food based on a couple of nutrition facts, but the nutrition information as a whole. There is no just looking at the carbs, or the calories and fat intake, or the sugar... For example, frozen chicken dinner A may have 30 less calories and 2 grams less fat than frozen chicken dinner B, but is worse for you because of the amount of sodium, calories from fat, and lack of protein and fiber.
I know this isn't a super exciting post, and most of you probably stopped at the second paragraph. I'm just really happy to have stumbled across these books because they have changes that EVERYONE can make, no matter your favorite types of food, whether you eat out or in, or what type of physical lifestyle you follow. So go buy or check out the books. If you don't, that next appetizer you order could be the one that has 2,900 calories and 182 grams of fat.
This definitely sounds like something I need. TFS.
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Gene and I have two of these This/That book, a friend of ours had it and he got interested, so we bought the restaurant and the grocery ones. These books make you not want to eat much of anything, although I still am eating. Hmmmm.
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