You Are What You Eat Cookbook: More Than 150 Healthy and Delicious Recipes Paperback – December 28, 2010

I collect healthy cookbooks. I'm a natural foods chef. It's an addiction. That said, I've also watched Gillian McKeith when she had the "You are What You Eat" show on. She is an amazing doctor that is able to find the root cause of health issues rather than just treat the issues. Since watching her show, I've heard more and more doctors begin studying the tongue, the eyes, the skin, etc in the very things she mentions on TV and in many of her books to tell you what's going on with your body...and often it does begin with a bad diet.The difference in this cookbook is it's not just a healthy cookbook or a weight loss cookbook..it makes you healthy with foods that enrich many things...your liver, kidney, skin, for example. You just feel so GOOD and light after these meals. And your body responds.I have many of her books, but this is my absolute favorite as I feel it's the most full of easy to do recipes, it's full of great smoothies, things I really love eating, and some of the healthiest meals on the planet...she remembers healthy and light proteins, monounsaturated fats, amino acids...you spend a month on these meals and you will feel and look different. At least I did.Of all the books I have by the author, this was my favorite purchase.

I got hooked on her show on BBC America, my sister bought me the cookbook a few months, and I've been on this diet or should I say life style change, for the past 2 weeks. My husband has dropped 20 lbs. and I've dropped 9, and we love the food. It's great to eat so healthy. Mind you I've always been a big veggie eater anyways, but in all my 46 years I've never cooked with fennel or leeks and now I can't live without it. She's right, my energy level is higher, my PMS is 75% improved and we are full. Buying organic is not that bad either, food tastes better and with not eating out or eating tons of meat, it is cheaper. We will keep on this lifestyle change and stick with it. Thanks Gillian. Now bring out another cookbook.... I had to order this book for my boss who know wants one as well, as he is jealous of my great healthy lunches. I love aduki beans.....I used to eat Lean Cusines, Weight Watchers etc, but Gillian is right, they have so much sodium. I'm not a fan of salt nor have I ever been, but my hands and ankles love me without the salt from these prepackaged foods. I'm hooked for life. A fan and skinner in Florida.

I love Gillian's show and her recipes. The recipes are very tasty. The only reason I didn't give it a full five-star rating was because this book needs an English to American translation for the average American to understand it easily. For example, what is the Fahrenheit equivalent to Gas Mark 4? What's a courgette? How much is a dessert spoonful? Like I said, a FULL translation would be VERY helpful! However, I would still recommend the book.I went to the Gillian McKeith website and got translations for the names of the foods and also to a metric-English conversion/calculator site to convert some of the measurements and the cooking temperatures. I'm not exactly sure how much a (English) dessert spoon holds, so I'm still guesstimating some measurements, but everything has turned out just great. I love eating all these fresh fruits and veggies and would recommend Gillian's books, plan, and attitude to anyone. Enjoy!

I recently started watching her tv show on BBC America and I am hooked! Everything she says makes perfect sense to me, although I am a health food freak. The cookbook itself contains very easy to follow recipes and most are quite tasty. I am not a good cook to begin with, but can easily follow these recipes. The book also gives nutritional information on the foods and explains why you should eat certain foods to help certain health conditions improve. I don't care if she is a doctor or a lawyer or a sheep herder, this is a great cookbook if you want to lose weight the healthy way, not through dieting but through proper nutrition. Excellent, and one of the few cookbooks I didn't receive and turn around to sell on ebay after realizing they are too complicated!

If you love her show, you may be tempted to buy her book, just like I was. I must warn you though, unless you are dedicated to using this book, it will probably wind up on your shelf collecting dust.Pros:1. The recipes are not bad and can be made pretty well. The taste of some of them is actually good.2. They are very healthy recipes.Cons:1. The recipes are in metric, so for Americans, you will need a conversion chart or will have to do calculations. But if you really like a recipe, you can just write down the American measurements in the book itself, so you will only have to do calculations for a recipe once.2. Most of the recipes require ingredients that CANNOT be found in most big chain stores. For many items, you will have to track down a health food store, a World Foods, or a specific retailer that carries what you need. This is NOT a book that you take to Walmart, grab your stuff and go. You WILL have to hunt down some ingredients. Some of the ingredients, I guarantee, you will never have heard of; many times I found myself looking at a list of ingredients and thinking, "What the hell is a ______?"3. Some of the recipes taste like crap. I'm not going to lie. She LOVES using leeks. If you don't like onions, you're not going to like leeks. It's basically a gigantic green onion. She also likes using fish. If you don't like fish, you're not going to be a happy camper.This book is not bad, but it's not great. If you are typical a overweight Midwesterner, you are probably not going to like this book very much. If you are really dedicated to ONLY eating the recipes in this book, you will lose weight. But you are probably not going to like it.You might want to save yourself some trouble, and look somewhere else.