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Living, not existing.

Reviewed in Australia on 26 June 2017

Amazingly brilliant book. With three chronic diseases and a family history of heart attack and stroke on both sides, I was apprehensive about the book, but the reviews for it made me reconsider.
Despite all my health issues, I haven't felt so healthy for many years. It's all the food I love to eat, and have now reincorporated back into my life after trying Paleo (and getting sicker and sicker). Now I'm brimming with energy, smiling, and living, not just existing.
Best money I have ever spent.

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Just poor science

Reviewed in Australia on 17 May 2020

Poor science

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Just poor science

Reviewed in Australia on 17 May 2020

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Reviewed in Canada on 15 December 2019

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The so called science presented in this book has been debunked in more recent studies. I would recommend books by Robert H. Lustig and "Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?" by Dr. Mark Hyman MD instead.

Eating meat won't harm you. And eating fat is not as bad as historically thought. Those are old theories and it has been proven many times to be bad science. It is sugar and especially fructose that ruins your health.

Eating plants is great but that is only a part of a healthy diet. I can't understand why this book has so many great reviews...

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Simon Kelly

A plant based diet made me sick

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2020

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After reading this book I was sold on a plant based diet. I tried it for 18 months until I felt so tired and had other issues that I went to see my doctor. Blood tests followed which found that I was deficient in a number of nutrients and vitamins. I read further and re-introduced meat and other animal products. My problems resolved very quickly. I now see this book as very clever one-sided propaganda. Our ancestors ate lots of meat and so should we.

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AMI

Not worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2019

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Unless you have a degree in medicine, I would not buy in view of the terminology. If you are a medic I think the cost of the plan identified would deter you from reading this. I brought as a present for my boyfriend but gave up after 3 pages. Plus so did my medic friends in terms of their knowledge

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Mrs A Grew

Not what I thought

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2020

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Basically go vegan...eat plants...meat puts on weight, dairy is bad and no mention of low carb reversing diabetes...just a plant based diet. Returned

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Paul Nicholson

Junk science

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2022

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I purchased this book to see what all the fuss is about luckily it was only £4 .I am sure it will appeal to the majority of highly emotional teenage girls or mid twenties borderline anorexics that make up the vegan community ,but as far I can see it's a mixture of junk science and more disturbingly Dr Goebbels style half truths and outright lies .There are plenty of unhealthy Vegans and Vegetarians out there 'Plant Based ' is a marketing strategy for a lot of highly processed junk food that is no more healthy than the other highly processed garbage consumed in developed societies.

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Sophie

Bad book. Not worth a single penny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2020

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This book is written by someone who spreads diet myths and fear among eating disordered eating!
I don’t recommend

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Kate Breuer

“Not” an ad for veganism.

Reviewed in Germany on 30 April 2021

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This book came highly recommended. As someone who eats a primarily vegan diet, I thought it would be good to get a bit more educated about the health benefits of veganism, as I usually focus on the environmental side of things. If I look at Amazon, I see that this book averages 4.5 stars and I just don’t know how. I mean, it’s an endless repetition of the same thing: pick a disease, explain how animal products are at fault, list a few (often flawed) studies, and praise veganism. Books like this make vegans look bad. There is enough evidence that a whole-food plant-based diet is healthier than the diet most of us eat. We don’t need to write (or read) books like this one… I didn’t finish it. I read the first few chapters, got bored and annoyed, moved on to this “tips” in the second part of the book, and got more annoyed. I did not finish reading any part of this book.

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Miss Marian-June Akin

Didn't like it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2019

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Didn't like the page layout. No pictures. All words. Boring to read. Very disappointing.

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Tony

Don't bother

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2019

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You need to be starving to read this book

6 people found this helpful

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