Eating Well for Optimum Health
The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition

I have learned firsthand how the body changes depending on what it’s given for fuel. One December more than a decade ago, after a twelve-hour drive from Virginia to Alabama, and a steady diet of French fries and cheeseburgers and sodas along the way, I pulled off the highway and into one of Tuscaloo......more

meh. I keep thinking food books will add content to my several years of health-food-store-worker thinking, and being wrong. This would probably be great for someone who didn't have the daily experience of forcible education at the hands of macrobiotics and ayurvedic eaters and raw foodists. He makes......more

A pleasure to read Dr. Weil's graceful and reasoned prose tends one to serenity and contemplation. What I found myself contemplating as I was reading this beautifully presented book about food was Dr. Weil himself. I recall him as the enfant terrible author of the bourgeois-shocking The Natural......more

This book tells you what you already know. OK as I said, this book does not tell you anything you do not already know. However, it organizes it in a way that makes sense and helps you put it together. There is nothing revolutionary or supernatural in how Andrew Weil puts food in perspective with ever......more

My partner gave me this book after they saw me reading a fruitarian guru with interest. Weil definitely has a more balanced view. I most enjoyed the narrative biochemical sections explaining the operations of the macronutrients. I studied biochemistry in college and, while we had done some activitie......more