A NON-DIET DIET BOOK??? HMMM . . .

Advantages: entertaining, informative, the advice given is fairly sensible
Disadvantages: there's a lot of rules!!!

...Earlier on in the year, I read in passing a review of a new diet book on the market. Well . . . strictly speaking "101 Things to Do Before You Diet" is NOT a diet book. As it professes itself on the back . . . "a live-it, not a DIE-t". The review I read was positive and seemed to back up this idea, so I decided it was worth giving it a go. After all, I have tried TONS of diet books which have not been a success. Or bought them for my mum as presents and had a sneaky read myself. There was the one co-written by India Knight which i had high hopes for - it turned out to just be a slight twist on the Atkins. Or the one where you ate tons of creme caramel for some unknown reason - I can't even remember what the point of that one was . . . But this one . . . I liked the idea of the "101 simple, essential tips for making the most of who you...

Pmshack99 23.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of 101 Things to Do Before You Diet - Mimi Spencer

Diet Coke Break

Advantages: taste, thirst quenching
Disadvantages: rotts your teeth

...Diet Coke.... Even before I was watching what I eat and drink to loose weight I would always opt for a diet coke over regular coke (or as I usually call it "fat coke"). The taste difference between standard coke and diet coke is rather a lot because regular coke tastes so very sweet. Regular coke will often make my teeth feel coated in a layer of sheen and give me a furry tongue, so for these reasons I have always been a diet coke girl. The calorie content in a can of diet coke is a mere 1 calorie per can which is nothing compared to the couple of hundred that a standard coke can contains. The price is the same however whether you are drinking regular or diet and for a single can nowadays you are looking at paying around the 70 pence mark. I drink a fair amount of canned drinks and will always stock up when the supermarkets...

newby2 17.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Diet Coke

Time for diet coke......

Advantages: Taste, Cost
Disadvantages: Still not all that good for you

...Time for Diet coke...... Review The company The coca cola group was first invented way back on the 8th of May 1886 by a gentleman called Dr John Styth Pemberton, Baack then Coca cola was selling an average of 9 drinks a day netting them an impressive $50 that year. Look at today's sales, Coca cola sell more than one billion drinks in a 24 hour period in over 200 countries. IT was not until 1900 that the UK had its first taste of Coco cola, when it was sold through soda fountains in places such as Selfridges. In 1999 Coca Cola purchased Schweppes which seen the range increase to include drinks such as Dr Pepper, Fanta, and many others. Between 1999 and 2004 Coca Cola seen their sales increase dramatically which resulted in them being able to announce that in Great Britain there sales where at an all time high of 54% of the soft...

marcellep2 19.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Diet Coke

It's a diet Coke thing!

Advantages: It's okay to drink, quenches your thirst,
Disadvantages: tad expensive, have to drink it quickly, drink when cold, not warm

... INTRODUCTION The first proper relationship I had was with diet coke; I used to spend my hot summer days straight after school running; I was exhausted after running down and needed a perfect drink to quench my thirst. Diet Coke. It would also be a perfect companion when reading my book; I'd hold the book and drink from the can at the same time. Thankfully the relationship never got too unhealthy; the most I'd consume would be a several cans a day. It has been a godsend, seeing me through the university year where I'd need instant caffeine and I wouldn't have any coffee in the kitchen. The fact it has almost 1 calorie per can was a bonus as I was already eating enough in my revision mode! Diet coke is one of the most well-known drinks in the entire world; after the regular coke. It is a sugar free soft drink produced by...

Annallon 03.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Diet Coke

Not just another diet book

Advantages: No starvation,lots of healthy eating.
Disadvantages: Bit technical in parts

...The introduction to Liz Earle’s Ace Plan makes a very bold statement…that this is the last diet book you will ever need to buy. In fact, the Ace Plan is not really a diet at all…more a way of life. The basic truth is that “diets” don’t work. It stands to reason that if you “go on a diet” you will eventually “come off” it, and if you haven’t changed your eating patterns long-term, the weight you have lost will creep back on. And as we all know,yo-yo dieting is bad for your health. So what’s so different about the Ace Plan? The Ace Plan is not about starving yourself, or counting every calorie, or buying expensive so-called “diet foods”. It is about eating the healthy foods that our bodies need in order to function properly and to promote good health...

Suzan 18.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Liz Earle's ACE Diet Plan - Liz Earle

A book telling you what you already know

Advantages: Recipes
Disadvantages: Nothing new to offer

...I suffer from PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) , a severe form of PMS so I am quite desperate to try things to makes me feel better. As far as Diet goes, I think I eat well anyway and did make changes previously, taking information off the Naps website and various other sources. I brought this book with the intention that it would give me ideas what to eat as a number of stuff is ruled out to prevent you making your symptoms worse and leave you wondering if there is anything tasty to eat. This book could do with illustrations of the recipes at the end of the book to make it seem appetising. As far as advice is concerned with what to eat and what not to eat, they are basically say its difficult to change your diet if you have a busy lifestyle or trying to fit it round family meals or eating out, but do give you options what...

angelic2004 02.12.2008 (03.12.2008) · Read review
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Review of The PMS Diet Book - Karen Evennett

Diet Coke. Cokes Skinny Sister.

Advantages: Perfect Coke Taste with 0 Calories.
Disadvantages: Contains aspartame.

...Diet coke seems to have a marmite effect - you really do either love it or hate it. I never really drank Diet coke until my sister started seeing her boyfriend about 2 years ago, he's diabetic so diet coke soon started becoming a permanent fixture in our fridge. One night he was making his normal rountine of waving a can in our faces asking if we wanted one, all I thought is 'this guy isn't going to give up until one of us takes it!' so I politely took one off him and as they say, the rest is history! HISTORY: John Pemberton invented Cola (French Wine Coca) when he was a Chemist in Georgia which was claimed to be a neurasthenia, then in 1885 he made an nonalcoholic alternative to the French Wine Coca that our much loved brand 'Coca-Cola' was finally born from. It first started being bottled in 1894 and Diet Coke was finally...

Cinny91 23.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Diet Coke

Just for the taste of it - Diet Coke

Advantages: Only 1 calorie, I like the taste
Disadvantages: Not great for you

...I was always a fan of coca cola and loved to have it when at the pub or for a special treat. I have recently though moved on to loving diet coke instead. Part of this probably stems from the fact that I always seem to be on a diet these days and at least I have no worries that I am adding to my food calories with my drinks too. I have also actually grown to really like the taste. Diet coke came from Coca Cola who are the biggest manufacturer of soft drinks worldwide. I am sure if you went to any country in the world people would know what coca cola is. Coca Cola as a brand has been around a long time but Diet coke is a more recent addition to the portfolio of drinks. It is one that has actually stuck around though unlike their attempts at New Coke. The premise of Diet Coke has always been that it is a diet drink as it only has...

wendz86 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Diet Coke

Less of a diet - more a lifestyle change

Advantages: You will feel better for it and it will put less strain on your body
Disadvantages: You just need the motivation to get started

...it is important. The book suggests that what you need to do to manage your blood pressure is not just to reduce salt but to manage the Potassium/Sodium balance. Rather than take supplements to do so it is far better to manage this with your diet. It does warn not to replace salt with a Potassium Sulphate product as this will not help (and what I didn't know is that Potassium Sulphate is used in the USA in lethal injections!) Plants contain a much higher Potassium to Sodium ratio of about 10:1 so the answer is to eat more plants in the form of fruit or vegetables and cut down on the salt. What this means in practice This is the bit that I like - I have finally found a diet that tastes good, is easy to manage and one that can actually represent a change in liefstyle which will help me for the rest of my life. Breakfast...

laramax 11.08.2007 (31.07.2009) · Read review
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Review of The DASH Diet The DASH Diet

Time for Diet Coke break

Advantages: great taste next to no calories
Disadvantages: prices of soft drinks keep soaring

...I have always been a fan of diet soft drinks. As a child my mother would never give me or my sister any pop that had sugar in it. You would never find a bottle of sugar loaded pop in the fridge at my house. The only time I ever remember drinking pop that had sugar in it would have been at my Nanna's house and then my mother wouldnt have been too pleased. Anyway I grew up on diet pop and still to this day it is the only pop I drink. With the exception that now on a few occassions it will be mixed with a vodka instead. Well its a good combination in moderation. It never bothered me drinking diet coke or other diet soft drinks while all my friends at school would be drinking what they called normal pop. I knew that what they were drinking would rot their teeth but you still got bullied for it as to them it was wrong. A little history...

angels21 21.05.2008 · Read review
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