[.ca] The Coconut Diet (ISBN 0446693456)

A Truly Delicious Diet:
I came to Cherie Colbom's book by way of a sort of synchronicity: my husband and I had been in the Philippines a year ago and had fallen in love with coconuts and had found the Tropical Traditions site, and I had read and was following the precepts of Jordan Rubin's "The Maker's Diet". I also have Sally Fallon/Mary G Enig's "Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and Diet Dictocrats". The "Coconut Diet" is a nice third piece in this triad. Like Jordan Rubin, Cherie brings a gentle Christian perspective to her lifestyle approach to better health. I also have a couple of her "Juice Lady" books, so this is an excellent, update and complement to them. I have given away all my vegetarian cookbooks and we have sworn off soy products as a result of this book and other literature (see Dr. Mercola's site online for more information on soy). Great recipes and an easy-to-follow three week regimen that includes directions on cleanses, etc. A comprehensive look at the new paradigm shift in the alternative health world.

Want something different? Your weight is over.:
Perusing its title, I couldn't help but pick up this book and check it out, imagining a book that would be telling me how I could lose those unwanted pounds by eating just coconuts everyday. However what I found was something completely different. This is a diet book that advocates the ever popular low carb diet to lose weight, but with a twist- incorporating coconut oil into your diet. Written by a nutritionist (a welcome change among diet books) and very easy to follow, if you're up for someting different, this might just be for you. Readers who have difficulty sticking with a diet long enough to see great results might want to check out "The Sixty-Second Motivator."