Mindful Eating

I realize that mine is the only rating on this book so far and that I should explain why I ranked it so low. Mostly, this seems less like a unified book and more like a collection of lists, borrowed ideas and repetition. Some of the information is correct, some is just wrong: the admonishment not to fast, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and that one should eat a little throughout the day — all these concepts are questionable at best and much disputed by modern research. The core idea here, of course, is mindful eating. As an approach to food, mindful eating could not be more important. So those two stars are for the central idea.

If Zoe Silva reads this, I would like to say that the start of a good book is here, but it needs to be organized around a central plan, repetition removed and please, please, please have it proofread, not just for typos but for a writing style which sometimes dips into incomprehensibility.

But do write the book that this book should have been. We need mindfulness in all aspects of our live right now, in eating most of all.