2008 CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter (Calorie King) by Allan Borushek Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of 2008 CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter (Calorie King)
Book Review: Complicated
Summary: 3 Stars
The book covers just about everything - almost too much. I find it time consuming to find what I'm looking for.Book Review: Outstanding reference for eating out!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Calorie King "Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter" book is an outstanding nutrition reference for those who eat out a lot. It contains nutrition information for the main entrees and side dishes for over 200 fast food and chain restaurants. For restaurants that are not part of a chain, there is also a section that provides nutrition info for popular entrees for various cuisines. Local restaurants will differ in terms of portion size served and to some degree in the ingredients they use for a particular dish, but the generic section does at least give you a base to work off of.
Aside from the restaurant section -- which constitutes about a third of the book -- the bulk of the book contains nutrition info for every food imaginable to include info for many brand name pre-packaged foods. Also, the book has a small section at the beginning with general dieting and nutrition information which puts all the raw info presented in the rest of the book in the proper context.
About the only complaint I have is that the book didn't include protein data for the foods covered. (That said, one can easily make a reasonable estimate of protein grams in a given food by subtracting the fat calories and carb calories out of the total calorie info given.)
If you are someone who is trying to lose weight and actively tracks the calorie and nutrition information for the foods you eat, this book is an indispensable reference!
Book Review: Helpful
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this book very helpful. Small enough to take anywhere. Nice fast food section.Book Review: Disappointed in this book
Summary: 2 Stars
This is not a book you can just pick up and use. I was hoping for a calorie counter that I could open the day I got it and immediately find the items I was looking for. It doesn't work that way. Having said that, it does have a lot of information in it though it can be difficult to find. I don't hate it but I would not buy this book again.Book Review: great--for fast food eaters
Summary: 2 Stars
I was sold this book by a dietician, and that's a pretty sad thing--it suggested that if everyone in the US can count their calories using this book, then everyone in the US eats mainly fast food (and Olive Garden etc.). I buy my own ingredients and cook my own food; this book does nothing for me. My main beef is actually not so much with the book's content but with the misleading cover, the implication that fast food is what food is, and that apparently dieticians agree with that. Hey! some of us still make our own food! I need a book that lets me count that.