The Anti-Estrogenic Diet: How Estrogenic Foods and Chemicals Are Making You Fat and Sick
by Ori Hofmekler
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Author: Ori HofmeklerContributor: Rick Osborn
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN: 155643684X
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Book Review: Important book
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a highly useful and important book. It isn't so much a dieting book as a guide to the problems with what we generally eat.
Many foods contain harmful pesticides or additives that contain estrogen-like or estrogenic properties. This is a problem because we are not hereditarily proepared to deal with them. What we generally eat has changed drastically in the last century or two, which is not easy for our bodies to adapt to. Constantly attempting to eradicate harmful estrogenic elements in our bodies causes the starving of organs of vital fluids and elements.
To combat this, Hofmekler has written this guide on removing as much estrogen from our diets as possible, and combining this with anti-estrogenic foods or supplements.
Estrogen crops up in some unexpected places, such as plastic food packaging. It is also true that most meat which we eat is female, or fattened with estrogen for higher-yield. Also beware of fruits with skins, such as apples - eat the skin and you eat the pesticides, more often than not containing estrogen-like, harmful additives.
Estrogen causes cancer. It also causes fat gain and organ failure. It sucks. It is not good for either sex.
This book is a very effective way of reconsidering what you eat. It doesn't prescribe low calorie meals. In fact you can eat pretty much what you like, as long as you make sure that your body is equipped to deal with what you put inside it.
However, this book isn't faultless.
The 3-stage jump start is a good plan, but it prescribes supplements without giving the dosage. "5 probiotic pills with breakfast" is misleading advice. Miligram dosage would ensure the plan was followed properly.
Also, the book itself could have been half as long. It's written in an annoying, almost patronisingly wordy fashion. It's also double-spaced, and has annoying bold paragraphs on most pages, which are repeated from the text - presumably for people flicking through.
On the whole it is a good book, and should be bought and followed.
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