Weight Watchers Take-Out Tonight! : 150+ Restaurant Favorites to Make at Home--All 8 POINTS or Less

This may be the best book published under the Weight Watchers' umbrella. It is a wonderful collection of favorite recipes from eight culinary genres. Chinese, Mexican, Indian, Thai, Italian, Greek, Japanese and Deli cuisine is featured. I love food (that's my problem) and delights such as General Tso's Chicken, Chicken Saltimbocca, Spanakopita, Shrimp Pad Thai and Moo Goo Gai Pan are now healthy, tasty and guiltless. You will not believe that these recipes are all 8 points or less. What is even more remarkable is that the family or guests will not suspect that these recipes came from Weight Watchers. This is a great leap forward for Weight Watchers as it makes the most popular restaurant meals not only available in your home, but healthy and delicious.

The book, unlike some earlier Weight Watchers' cookbooks, is very well laid out. The chapters are color coded and the index is arranged by cooking cuisine, with the recipes listed alphabetically. There are many beautiful illustrations as well. Many of the recipes come with a box called Clever Cook's Tips that give the user some useful suggestions, techniques and recipe substitutions.

You don't have to be a Weight Watchers' client to appreciate this book. The recipes are just good, dieting or not! Buy this one...you won't be disappointed.

I was just starting WW and it was going well, but I was bored. I had found a bunch of safe foods with just the right point values, but BOY was I craving take-out food and all those yummy things you can only get when cheating on a diet! I wanted Thai food most, which is notoriously filled with coconut cream and salt. Argh!

When I found this book at Amazon, I immediately ordered it... and thank goodness I did! Not only does it have Thai, but Italian, Indian, Japanese, Mexican, Greek -and more. There are foods in here that I never thought I'd be able to have while on Weight Watchers! The recipes are straightforward and actually authentic -I was worried that they would be too far from the originals but have been pleasantly surprised. The Thai "fresh" spring rolls (also known as Vietnamese Goi Cuon) are SPOT ON! I've even served them to guests, who couldn't stop complimenting them.

One of the best things about this book is that not only do they provide the nutritional information about each serving, but they actually say the size of each serving. This seems like such a small thing but in another WW book I ordered, the recipe only tells you how many servings for the whole recipe. Maybe I'm just not good at dividing, maybe I'm lazy... but just knowing that I can have a 1-cup serving of something *before* I start making something is helpful.

I'm usually one of those "make it up as you go" people with cooking (this could be why I'm on WW!) but I find myself actually using this cookbook quite often! Hope this helps!

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This is a great cookbook! I just bought it a few weeks ago and already I have made six recipes from it. This cookbook would appeal not only to those looking to lose weight but also aspiring cooks who are hooked on take-out. I would say that although these recipes are not exactly authentic versions of the take-out favorites, they are even better! I especially love the "clever cook's tips" that are featured on most of the recipes that tell you what substitutes to make in order to make the dish vegetarian or how to change a dish to make it better. The Spicy Orange Chicken so far is my favorite. Bon appetit!

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This is a super cookbook! My boyfriend and I love spicy food: Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Indian. But we also want to eat healthy and lose weight. (I'm doing Weight Watchers Online.) This book satisfies our need for "take-out"-flavored food but with lower calories and saturated fat. We just had the Shrimp Pad Thai for dinner tonight, and it's terrific! So many lowfat recipes taste bland, but the pad Thai had a great kick from the chili sauce. All the recipes make at least 4 servings, so we have plenty of leftovers for healthy lunches! So we save money on dining out too! This is a great value. Finally, there are many recipes for appetizers that make a whole lot of servings, so I can make tasty hors d'oeuvres that I can eat without guilt! This book is great for anyone who wants to enjoy great-tasting lowfat food. Enjoy!

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I've tried more than half of the recipes in this cookbook and enjoyed every one of them. Taste and variety are as important to me as calories and 'points' and this cookbook doesn't disappoint. For those of you with a spouse who isn't 'diet' conscious, you know how difficult it is to serve meals that please both palates. I can assure you that this cookbook will do the trick...for the first time in many dieting attempts, I feel satisfied by my meals and my husband doesn't feel like he's also on a diet!

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The Decision Tree: How to make better choices and take control of your health

As a physician with a public health background, I have a healthy amount of scepticism when 'the next great book' comes along and claims to change the way we live. However, while reading Goetz' book, it didn't take long for me to realize I was in for a wonderful surprise. Perhaps it is his background as an editor at Wired magazine that makes his writing so engaging. Combine that with a solid grounding in the public health arena and the result is impressive. Although written with the patient in mind, this book will serve as an invalubale tool for clinical practitioners and epidemiologists alike. It opens a window into the field of medicine that I found fascinating and highly educational. More importantly, it gives us a glimpse at the way the doctor-patient relationship will look in the future. And, whether we like it or not, as Goetz eloquently reminds us, we would be wise to take notice now.

When it comes to assessing the problems with our health care system and identifying ways to make it better, this book by Thomas Goetz is among the best I've ever read. Hopefully, it will be highly influential, especially considering that we live in an age when most of the "easy" medical problems have been solved and the hard ones remain (eg, cancer and many chronic conditions). Goetz proves to be an incisive analyst, a creative thinker, a balanced pragmatist, and a lucid writer.

The main idea presented in this book is that decision tools need to be developed which enable all available information to be rationally, systematically, and efficiently assembled and weighed in order to cost-effectively maximize individual and collective health outcomes. In other words, health care needs an engineering approach. This is really just common sense, yet our health care system unfortunately falls far short of this ideal, so we need books like this to help open people's eyes.

Here are some further key points from the book:

* Patients need to play an active role in their health care decisions, using physicians and other health care professionals largely as consultants, and collaborating with other patients in sharing information.

* Health care information (medical records, drug labels, etc.) needs to be presented in a sensible standardized format and made easily accessible online on a real-time basis.

* To account for biological heterogeneity among people, preventive measures and treatments need to be tailored to each individual. Thus, the information used to make decisions must include both statistical information drawn from populations as well as specific information particular to each individual (both phenotypic and genetic).

* Costs need to be controlled by emphasizing prevention of disease, lowering the cost for FDA drug approval, avoiding replacement of older/cheap drugs with newer/expensive drugs which aren't significantly better, avoiding use of expensive drugs which don't significantly improve outcomes (eg, many cancer drugs), using/avoiding screening based on relationship to outcomes, avoiding overuse of expensive medical technology, and linking physician payments at least partly to outcomes rather than extent of services.

The above ideas overlap considerably with ideas I arrived at myself after years of intense involvement with health care issues (especially related to cancer research and treatment). For example, see my detailed review of The War on Cancer: An anatomy of failure, A blueprint for the future by Guy Faguet.

This is a brilliant and important book, and I can't recommend it strongly enough.

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Thomas Goetz catalogs the recent advances (and setbacks) in medicine & personal health, but also maps out the possibilities for how things could get better. He does this so convincingly that you can't believe it's not already taking root: clear labeling on drugs & food, passive tracking of our exercise routines, open access to our health data.

There are enough lessons for self-improvement in the book that I found myself comparing it to What to Expect When You're Expecting, but since Goetz focuses on the big picture (prevention, diagnosis, disease management) it is more like What to Expect When You're Expecting a Long Life.

Unlike the pregnancy bible I read 10 years ago (and more than once threw across the room), Goetz doesn't preach from a lofty whole-grain pulpit. He doesn't think we should ask people to do more, nor should we scold people for every mistake they have made, but rather we should give them tools to make better health choices.

You know how MDs are always asked for cocktail-party diagnoses? This book is for all the MPHs who stood nearby wishing that someone would ask them for on-the-spot health advice.

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I found this book interesting. The first couple of chapters were a bit slow for me because for the few new things I learned, they were repeated several times. As a matter of fact, the author repeats the theme of taking control of your health early throughout the book. I did learn some interesting things, like why so many pharmaceutical companies abandon research that might seem promising they simply don't stand to make enough money. The author says they want to make at least 1 billion dollars per cure, so they abandon the ideas that might only generate a few hundred million. The book has a lot of interesting ideas like that in it, but ultimately it doesn't come to a prescriptive method for taking control of your health. While it is called the Decision Tree and there are several examples of Decision Trees in the book, it doesn't ultimately result in "the" decision tree. However, it does mention several potentially useful websites throughout, such as 23andme, patientslikeme, curetogether, and several others. I only investigated 23andme and the price for genetic sequencing looks to have gone down to $299. Anyways, this is an interesting book and once I got through the first couple of chapters I read through it rather quickly. The author clearly did his research and the effort shows. However, you will not find any magic fomula for managing your health in this book. Instead, you will find lots of suggestions, examples about people who already have issues and their decision trees, and some complaints (I think very legitimate ones) about the way health care is administered today.

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This book is an enjoyable foray into making better medical decisions and taking control of one's health care. The author uses several stories of how people with illnesses were able to make better health decisions by obtaining better testing-mostly genetic or linking to social networking sites on health. The authors writing is captivating and has lots of information and insights into the problems of modern medicine. I find the authors theories of decisionmaking undertheorized and though based on tests he could have mentioned what to do next if treatments based on genetic tests dont work. This is of critical importance for as the author acknowledges many treatments dont work. He could have mention adaptive interventions, evolutionary algorithms, or other problem solving methods. Still, a good effort and worth reading.

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Father's Home Birth Handbook

Annalisa Barbieri wrote, in an article in "The Independent" (UK), that "The Father's Home Birth Handbook" is "a quite brilliant book." She was right! And Melissa Chianta called the book "a gold mine" in "Mothering" magazine (May/June 2009). She was right too!

Joanna Ptolomey (a Health Information Analyst and Consultant in the UK) wrote, on Amazon.co.uk, "What makes this book so exciting is that not only is it written in a very accessible format, but the content relies on well researched high-quality evidence. The evidence it presents is from "gold standard" and well documented sources that health-information specialists and clinical staff use to make decisions on a day-to-day basis. You can be sure that this book is not just a collection of 'Googled information sources,' but from authoritative sources and with that comes peace of mind for any user of this text."

The reviewer in "Midwifery Today" noted that "Leah Hazard's exploration of what it's like for a father at a home birth is well-referenced and provides answers to many of the questions a man might have about the home birth choice. I love that she brings together the voices of men from all walks of life, and reveals how life changing the birth of their baby was for them, in the sanctity of their own home. Although primarily written for men, it's invaluable as a resource for birth professionals."

"Mother" magazine called this book "essential reading."

Every father-to-be should read this wonderful book, no matter whether his partner is planning to give birth at home or in hospital. Nothing beats the words, in this book, of the many fathers who describe, with admiration and love, how their partners delivered their babies. It is rare that fathers speak so openly about the intimate details of birth and the ways in which watching and helping their loved ones has brought them closer together. Leah Hazard, an experienced doula, writes with charm and authority (and citations!) about the joys and, also, the occasional unexpected problems of home birth. If your partner is pregnant or if you know a man whose partner is pregnant, buy this book so that you or he can learn from other men what they experienced when their partners gave birth.

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Gym on a wall: A complete family fitness center that mounts on any wall of your home (Rodale plans)

I bought this book when it first came out and built one of these units, which I still have and use to this day. One of the best bargains for the return that I know of. Aerobics and weight-lifting in one unit, easily built for around $300 in parts. I wouldn't be without it! As an architect, I am including this amazing unit in my new home, since it only takes up the space of a book case against a wall. I was able to improve on a couple of operational equipment details to simplify and bring this already remarkable unit a little more into the 21st century, but the original is certainly equally serviceable. I heartily and frequently recommend it to friends and clients alike. Last I knew, the author was the head of Michigan's state office promoting physical fitness. I really wish the book was still in print, reprinted or a new edition issued. Every family could benefit from this unit's use in homes. It easily does the job of equipment costing hundreds, if not thousands of dollars more. Buy this book before no copies are left to purchase!

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