“The more I listen to your podcasts & read your info the more I like you!!! In my opinion, there are few “nutrition & exercise experts” out there that are actually on the right track. Thankfully, I think you are one of the few that is disseminating accurate information. It is difficult to get the right information out when you are competing with large food, agri, farma & medical companies with massive advertising budgets. I appreciate your hard work and know that it is greatly needed. I look forward every week to your podcasts & all that I will learn from them. As a future trainer, I will be using your expertise as a resource.

The most important service I feel you provide is the ability to sift through all the info & research and communicate it to your clients and public in a non-threatening, understandable way so that they can actually digest it and use it. The excerpt from your book indicates to me that it will be a great resource for many.

I posted your link to the book on my Facebook page and got comments stating that this kind of information is really needed, especially in the States. The obesity problem is just so evident but I think average Americans watch so much TV that they are brainwashed by the false advertising and become confused as to what to do. They just assume that if a label says it’s “natural” or low-fat, they should be eating it. I love the way you dissect this and debunk this in your sample chapter.

As far as actual content, I would love to see more info & research about high fructose corn syrup included in your book. You might already have that topic included, as you could write an entire chapter about it. Just the fact that it can turn off the “full signal” going to your brain is important for obese clients. Corn sugars are just so pervasive!!! I just feel if we could get people to cut back on it, then eliminate it, we’d make a huge dent in our health problems. It’s like cigarette smoking used to be….we just need to keep talking and writing about it until people become aware of its dangers (scared!) I talk about it so much that just the other day, my son, who is learning to read, read a label and said, “ewww this has corn sugar in it…that’s bad”. Look at what the breast cancer folks have achieved…and breast cancer is not the biggest killer of women. I’d love to run a marathon to raise money for research & awareness for the dangers of corn syrup! Then we have to target the big corn agribusinesses/lobbyist, but that’s another topic!

The editor in me found this typo: By now, you realize that although Brian could have easily purchased this bar at the front desk of a health club, these none of these ingredients are encouraging his body to lose fat, and are probably instead causing weight gain.

I’m looking forward to the release of the entire book and will definitely be sharing it far and wide!
Thanks for everything!”

The more I listen to your podcasts & read your info the more I like you!!! In my opinion, there are few “nutrition & exercise experts” out there that are actually on the right track. Thankfully, I think you are one of the few that is disseminating accurate information. It is difficult to get the right information out when you are competing with large food, agri, farma & medical companies with massive advertising budgets. I appreciate your hard work and know that it is greatly needed. I look forward every week to your podcasts & all that I will learn from them. As a future trainer, I will be using your expertise as a resource.

The most important service I feel you provide is the ability to sift through all the info & research and communicate it to your clients and public in a non-threatening, understandable way so that they can actually digest it and use it. The excerpt from your book indicates to me that it will be a great resource for many.

I posted your link to the book on my Facebook page and got comments stating that this kind of information is really needed, especially in the States. The obesity problem is just so evident but I think average Americans watch so much TV that they are brainwashed by the false advertising and become confused as to what to do. They just assume that if a label says it’s “natural” or low-fat, they should be eating it. I love the way you dissect this and debunk this in your sample chapter.

As far as actual content, I would love to see more info & research about high fructose corn syrup included in your book. You might already have that topic included, as you could write an entire chapter about it. Just the fact that it can turn off the “full signal” going to your brain is important for obese clients. Corn sugars are just so pervasive!!! I just feel if we could get people to cut back on it, then eliminate it, we’d make a huge dent in our health problems. It’s like cigarette smoking used to be….we just need to keep talking and writing about it until people become aware of its dangers (scared!) I talk about it so much that just the other day, my son, who is learning to read, read a label and said, “ewww this has corn sugar in it…that’s bad”. Look at what the breast cancer folks have achieved…and breast cancer is not the biggest killer of women. I’d love to run a marathon to raise money for research & awareness for the dangers of corn syrup! Then we have to target the big corn agribusinesses/lobbyist, but that’s another topic!

The editor in me found this typo: By now, you realize that although Brian could have easily purchased this bar at the front desk of a health club, these none of these ingredients are encouraging his body to lose fat, and are probably instead causing weight gain.

I’m looking forward to the release of the entire book and will definitely be sharing it far and wide!
Thanks for everything!

Ben,
  I would totally read this book. I think my entire problem with fatigue and weight gain is that I don’t know what to eat. Everyday I am surrounded with a million ads telling me why this or that is good for me. I’m not a nutrition major–I will graduate with a degree in Public Relations for heavens sake. I grew up in a home with a mother and father who HATE cooking and so take-out was the name of the game. Now I’m 24, have struggling with body image issues and my body weight has been up and down more times than you can count.
 
I would love to read the rest of this book because its real and gets down to the basics of healthy nutrition. I love that you are not trying to sell me ANYTHING.
 
thanks for all you do
 
heidi

Hi Ben…this is GREAT!! I am fascinated by all of this – and have been
“into” eating healthy and understanding nutrition for most of my life….
Once I become certified, I hope to be able to take you up on your offer to
work with you at Pilgrims – it would be a great experience!

When I was reading the below – it made me recall a few chapters in a book
called “the Omnivore’s Dilemma” (by Michael Pollan). Have you read it? It
was a ‘eye opener’ for me…sort of one of many “ah ha!” moments….

Have a good evening!

Eric

Hi Ben, I did not even read all of the article you just sent( I will later) but just have to say this..I think the biggest problem is people just don’t cook for themselves. We have been told over and over from the media and all our co-workers we are just too busy “now-a-days”to cook. People don’t know how to cook, if they did, we would not have such a problem. WE have to get them to cook!!! 
 
cindy

Ben -

Thank you for the peek at your new book. Very, very interesting information. I would recommend the book to several people I know who insist on buying non-fat or diet everything in the hopes of dropping weight. I think this would be a real eye opener for lots of folks.

Bridget

Hopefully this will be a great tool to get them to want to make the change for themselves.