Review: Do We Really Need Another Weight Loss Book?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2011
Over the decades, many forests have been clear cut and the wood pressed into pulp to make paper for the sole purpose of publishing books that tell you how to lose weight. How many weight loss books do you really have to read to get it through your head to eat less and exercise more, and eat healthy stuff? Well, apparently one more.So here we have a short, very short Kindle book that is using electricity, probably generated by dirty coal, contributing to global warming, so that people can read yet another book that explains how to lose weight, which of course, is to not eat so much and get some regular exercise.This book suggests basically a lot of exercises directed at the stomach, and so on.It has some eating tips, but suggests no specific belly-fat buring foods, although warns against some. For example, the author admonishes importantly: "Sugar is bad news!" He says, "sugar turns directly into fat?" Holy moly! This will certainly come as a revelation to millions!Here is another stunning revelation in this book: "All the energy in your body is provided by the protein, fat and carbohydrates that you eat." Wow! You mean human beings cannot absorb energy directly by taking in cosmic rays, or use sunlight and chlorophyll to manufacture nourishment?But, weight loss books sell and sell. Publishers know that. Writers know that. So they keep churning them out, and people keep buying them, seeking that ever elusive Holy Grail: Losing Weight. The way to do that, of course, it to eat less and exercise more. But maybe what Albert Einstein once said applies here: "The best theories are simple, but not too simple."