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Neris and India's Idiot-proof Diet: From Pig to Twig | 
 enlarge | Authors: India Knight, Neris Thomas
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 152
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0141027436
EAN: 9780141027432
ASIN: 0141027436
Publication Date: January 3, 2008
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 This book needs to come with a health warning! August 18, 2008
Stylo (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I have to admire this book for attempting to address the issues that underlay a person's overeating, there's not much else to like about it. The "diet" has been put together by two amatuers with no experience in diets or nutrition other than having been on lots of diets in the past. Not a great place to start from...
It's interesting to read that the author claims this book presents a mediterranean diet when that clearly isn't the case. What they actually advocate is cutting out an entire foodgroup (carbohydrates). For the rest of your life. Which frankly, is just plain stupid.
Carbohydrates have received a bad rap in recent years but there's many different types and the authors show their naiveity by excluding the entire group. Put very simply, highly processed, simple carbohydrates are something we should exclude from our diet as much as possible. Complex carbs (whole grains) provide much-needed energy.
The diet advocated by these two woman is quite dangerous. Losing weight safely is easy - you need to burn more calories than you consume. Eat healthily (and most of us know what that means by now) and do regular exercise. It's the only sustainable way to lose weight and keep it off long-term.
Add this book to the enormous pile of faddy, dangerous diet books.
Another Atkins spinoff! August 12, 2008
Nettie T (West Sussex)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hi, I really wanted to give this a go but after buying both the book and the diet book I have decided to send them back. I work full-time and did not find this book at all practical for people working full-time. I don't agree with a diet book that tells you that you cannot eat fruit to begin with as it contains too much sugar but you can eat onion bhajis for breakfast! I also don't agree with a diet book where you are told to take so many, expensive, supplements. Why can't you just get the nutrition from food?? The menus looked good but the ingredients are expensive and I just don't have the time. I am sure lots of people have lost loads of weight on it and great for them. I would much rather stick to healthy eating, drinking lots of water and some exercise. Sorry but not for me.
 Great for the mind games, not so sure about the diet August 11, 2008
Annie G (East Anglia, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fun and friendly read, which is really good for helping you sort out why you need to diet in the first place, and what you want to get out of it. A lot of diet books take this stage for granted, when it can be the most difficult bit to get right. Without getting the mental attitude right, no diet is going to work long-term - I speak from experience.
As noted by other reviewers, this is an amalgamation of low-carb diets, mostly Atkins. However the authors are not qualified dietitians (nor do they pretend to be), although they are good on practicalities (the section on wardrobe-sorting is great advice). Personally I'm not convinced by any diet that relies heavily on supplements and laxatives, even if mostly in the first stage. I'd still say that at paperback price it's a good investment for helping you get your mind and behaviour patterns under control.
Not good for Vegetarians July 13, 2008
J. Barrand (uk)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I only wish I knew that this book was a book about an Atkins type diet. I am vegetarian and nowhere on the cover does it say not suitable for vegetarians. I tried Atkins and ended up in hospital with a bowel blockage. I was disappointed that I had spent money on this book which did not go with my vegetarian lifestyle.
It's not the way to pig! May 29, 2008
Mum of the animals (UK)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
It may sound priggish but Neris and India have only written an amusing lifestyle book. I cannot recommend it as a diet book. Because they are women who have lost weight, they understand the urge to flop on the couch to cheer yourself up with food because life is sad/bad/good/happy/boring. Because they are genuinely warm and funny, it is like talking about dieting with your best, funniest friend. I was very taken with the approach and am already carrying out some of the ideas. It includes what clothes to buy while you are a fatso, how to be happy without walking to the fridge and about how we cheat.
But the diet itself....
It is very, very low carb. You lose weight fast. I was tempted. But I was conscious that while they are working mothers (which means they understand) and media experts (which makes them persuasive) they are not nutritionalists. So before I did the diet, I checked out advice from doctors. They say, no, not in the long term. People need carbs. They also need fruit. Although you do lose weight fast, some of it relates to water (as always) and sometimes it burns muscle (which is a low carb thing). It can change the metabolism and make weight loss harder in the future.
There is plenty to praise the book for - but not the diet.
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