Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight: The Negative Calorie Effect Paperback – July 26, 2016

Very educational.

This is the only diet that has worked for me. I have sent this book to a number of my friends, I weighed 365 when I got the book. I have lost 76 pounds. I lose one pound per week. I am at 289 and shooting for 225. I was morbidly obese. I learned a lot. I scorned spuds - now I eat them every day. I thought fish was a diet food. I no longer eat avocadoes or peanuts. A Mickey D double cheezeburger costs me 2 pounds each. It puts on a pound and I dont't lose a pound that week. Same with BK's Whopper JR. I used to buy a double cheeze burger on the way to food shopping -- so I wouldn't be hungery while shopping. I don't do that any more. I am now in the habit of driving straight home after a trip to town and not stopping in for a burger on the way home -- like I used to. I tried all the other diets--and none of them worked. When I go to an all you can eat buffett, I fill up with fruits and vegetables. I am just as full as I used to be eating the non VEGAN food. The first few months on the diet, the VEGAN food would not sustain me for more than about three hours. Now that I have been a VEGAN for some time, the VEGAN diet sustains me as long as the meat diet used to. I went to my friends Bar

The principal of this book and the recipes are very good. Although I haven't totally finished reading the book they look interesting.However,the good doctor must be making to much money and thinks that everyone is the same as him rolling in dollars.He suggests in this book to through all your fat producing foods out, which theoretically makes sense to get rid of any fat producing food. However, if you are like my wife and myself you can't afford to do that. We have between $2000.00 and $3000.00 worth of regular roasts, prime rib roast which I know there are 5 of left, plus lobster, king crab etc. in the freezer. The food banks will not take it and we are not wasting it. However, we will leave it alone for three weeks, try some of his recipes and see if we like it and if it makes any difference. We may not be able to do his diet. If we don't like it we won't do it.Tried some soy milk last night it awful, can't drink it. So if we had thrown out all our food and milk it would have been a big waste.

I would consider myself fairly well informed on diets and health, but new information is emerging all of the time and on the advice of a friend who is a cardiologist, I have decided to try a vegan diet. This is not my first go and in the past I have been put off by missing my favorite tastes like chicken and cheese and other dairy. But as I have learned more about the benefits of this diet, I have been able to get past some of this. I also need to lose weight. Because of my busy schedule, I needed something that basically cuts to the chase and this book does just that. I would recommend it for anyone considering a vegan lifestyle because the information is easily digestible and not overwhelming, which is the basic premise of the book.

I chose this rating because its mostly vegetarian and has a lot of tofu, yogurt info. I am not a tofu or yogurt person and I do not drink milk, as I don't like it and get ill from it. I do not use any dairy or non dairy products other than some cheese. I did like the info on fruits, nuts, and vegetables. I also do eat lean red meat, poultry, pork and fish. We buy organic as much as possible and eat fresh or frozen. I buy very little processed foods. As I said there's good info in this book and someone leaning toward the vegetarian lifestyle would really like it, so yes I would recommend it for them.

This awsome book is a "real"life changer for "anyone" who desires to get in better shape by dropping a few pounds a month successfully, lowering that constant high blood pressure. It is super easy to follow Dr. Benard's book on foods that help you lose weight. Thank you, thank you, thank you Dr. Benard!

Wasn’t very informative to me. Some recipes interesting but not so that I would try them. I didn’t enjoy it.

I was excercising and following a protein based + minumum carbs diet. My goal was to reduce fat and cholesterol. I read this book and decided to give it a try.1.- If you are planning to become a vegan this may work for you.2.- Even though carbos have no fat, your body converts carbs into sugar for energy and sugar becomes fat.I gain back 2 pounds in a week! Not only that but I grew back 2.5 inches of belly!!Carbos have been always a problem for me. They surely store in my belly. I was excercising at the time I tried this diet. I was at the gym 3 times a week for at least one hour.This messed up my fitness program big time. I had to started all over again.I know some people that had become skinny with this program but MAKE SURE YOUR BODY TYPE will respond to this program before you start. You may be dissapointed. Check with your doctor.