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Nutrition Made Clear

By: Roberta H. Anding, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Roberta H. Anding
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Nutrition is essential to living a healthy, happy, and successful life. Yet a world of misconceptions and promises of easy results too often stands in our way - and can even be harmful to our overall health.

The key is to cut through the noise and find the medically backed, statistically proven information about healthy eating and living. These 36 in-depth lectures explore the fundamentals of good nutrition and offer a practical guide for applying these fundamentals to your lifestyle. The power of nutrition lies not just in grasping the concepts behind it, but also in applying those concepts to daily living. This means learning where to find authoritative nutrition information, mastering the science behind nutrients and the body, recognizing what your personal daily requirements of each nutrient should be, building a distinct exercise regimen, and more.

A dietitian and award-winning lecturer, Professor Anding gives you a wealth of invaluable tips you can easily apply to your own eating habits. You'll learn how to calculate your own dietary needs, how to create your own nutrition and exercise plans, how to recognize when a product or service is really a health fraud, and more.

Crafted with the needs of individual people in mind, this course is both a fascinating learning experience and the perfect investment in your personal health - one that will educate you, motivate you, and reward you for the rest of your life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2009 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2009 The Great Courses

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No way to lose weight

I am sorry but "healthy whole grains"? Give me a break. The same formula that is making us obese as a society is no way to change the situation. Eating fat does not make one fat. Dietary cholesterol does not increase body cholesterol (LDL). I eat a ton of saturated fat and eggs every day. About 5 years ago I weighed 50 pounds more than I do now when I listened to Gary Taubes "Why We Get Fat" after which I drastically cut the carbs, whole grains included, out of my diet. I am 6 feet tall, 71 years old and weigh 180 pounds. My HDL is 111. I also drink a few beers each day which accounts for most of my carb consumption. I am sure that the author means well, but she does a disservice to the audience with this material. I did listen to the entire course only because my wife wanted to hear it. I would suggest other books such as Eat the Yokes, Big Fat Surprise, Good Calories Bad Calories for anyone serious about a slim healthy lifestyle.

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Soooo Boring

this ebook contains great information. Really it's a series of recorded lectures by an interesting lecture. The problem is that this is an appendix to a textbook that you need to be studying in print in order to be able to absorb the material that is summarized in a very quick fashion through the lecture. This is just no way to learn the material by listening. It's far too complex.

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Obvious bias - lack of critical analysis

What would have made Nutrition Made Clear better?

It would be improved with more balance. Many of the examples related to athletes. I did not buy this audiobook to learn that sports drinks are good when I run marathons. I found some areas well covered but any mention of low carb diets was dripping with disdain. This seems to be a blind spot for the presenter. Conflating ketoacidosis with ketoses was disingenuous and misleading. Different people respond to different interventions and eliminating one area of inquiry with little explanation was frustrating at best.

What could The Great Courses have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

The thing that would have made the course easier to listen to would be a rewrite of the script. Certain words and phrases were repeated so often that is became difficult to hear anything else. The phrase "it is important to remember" proceeded so many statements that it became impossible to know what was actually important. If it was all important, than the phase was truly meaningless. The other repeated phrase was "keep in mind". I even heard it twice in two consecutive sentences. I bought the book and I'm listening, being told constantly to keep some thought in mind was just distracting. These phrases sounded like a nervous tick similar to "um" or "you know".

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

disappointment - I wanted clear information on nutrition. I seemed to get a diet for football players.

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Nutrition Made Clear

If you could sum up Nutrition Made Clear in three words, what would they be?

Dietition's view point.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Nutrition Made Clear?

It was made clear that Buyer Be Ware. Definitely look at the nutrition labels of products, be aware of how many servings in a container, and how many colories/fat per serving.

What aspect of Professor Roberta H. Anding’s performance would you have changed?

The performance of Professor Roberta H. Anding was exceptional.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

It was interesting to learn that vitamines and supplements are not regulated by FDA and some could be harmful to your health, and that they may have more of an ingredient (or less) than what they advertise or have on the nutrition label.

Any additional comments?

Every chapter begins with a classical music score. That made it hard to move around the book to get to a specific topic unless you remember which track contains which topic. I knocked Performance down a couple of stars because of that. There was a time when I wanted to review to a previous topic and I didn't remember where it was. So, it took listening through the music in the beginning of each track before getting to what the title is.

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Informative yet annoying.

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Again, keep in mind, and again, keep in mind, an again, keep in mind, low and behold, this lady lecturer needs a speech coach ! Low and behold her lazy diction just might drive you out of your mind. Despite this her lectures are rather informative and easy to comprehend. She comes across as somewhat open minded while her knowledge remains quite mainstream. I did find her support of artificial sweeteners and statin drugs unappetizing and out of date.

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So Wrong In So Many Ways

What disappointed you about Nutrition Made Clear?

She promotes many of the Fake foods that are making millions ill.

What could The Great Courses have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Get her facts correct instead of promoting many of the junk food industries harmful fake foods.

How could the performance have been better?

She needs to go back to school.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

No

Any additional comments?

All human beings need to eat whole foods meaning just the way they come from nature not processed and not full of chemicals. We should count chemicals not calories. For her to say that its okay to consume sugar free products is irresponsible at best, sugar is bad in so many ways in fact cancer thrives off of it. Sugar substitutes are much more harmful then sugar. I don't consume sugar with the exception of fruit which I don't overeat. I and others feel and look so much better by eating more healthy fats like organic coconut, avocado, olive oil, nuts, seeds and fish oil and even better eating the low mercury wild caught fish like salmon and anchovies/sardines. I don't eat any grains whatsoever, they are overly processed and full of chemicals including gyphosate a compound in Roundup. I could go on and on, its a shame that this woman is making huge bucks off of this book that's full of bad information. Ketosis is NOT bad in fact once our bodies switch over from sugar burners to fat burners we are at our best in fact many of the pro athletes eat high healthy fats. If everyone stopped eating grains they would NOT be unhealthy fat or suffering from malnutrition. Protein is needed but not more than a 4-6oz a day and that should come from 100% grass fed meats and wild meats.

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Disappointing

Author/narrator gives a repetitious, rambling presentation, lacking in concise elucidation of the subject matter, unlike the articulate and information-packed lectures of Prof Satterfield on Mind and Body

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saturated fat

great book but lots of misinformation about saturated fat and fat/carb/protein ratios. Modern studies are showing tans fats, not saturated fats, are responsible for increased risk of cardiac disease.

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Not focused on real problems

What disappointed you about Nutrition Made Clear?

The audiobook focuses on anecdotes of people who overdid basic nutrition advice. It doesn't focus on the very real problem of too much sugar and carbohydrates. Instead you get anecdotes of people who eat too much fiber and protein, and don't eat enough salt and carbohydrates. Really??? Is this the problem with the standard American diet???

Would you ever listen to anything by The Great Courses again?

Yes.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment

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Everyone should listen to this

Dr. Anding provides very valuable information in this lecture series. There’s a lot of it and at first it feels a bit overwhelming. But it is in fact a cleaned-up and more digestible version of the science of nutrition (pun intended).

With this in mind, I recommend you listen to all of it carefully, but listen especially closely to the material that is relevant to you and yours.

It may sound corny, but I found some of the information life-altering. My family and I have changed our eating habits accordingly and I’m grateful to Dr. Anding for pointing us in the right direction.

Do yourself a big favour and listen to this excellent lecture series.

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