by Judy Fields ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 19, 2012
A fine diet and exercise manual, enlivened by the author’s take on body-image issues.
In her second diet book, Fields (E.A.T. and Be Healthy, 1991), a longtime registered dietician and fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, offers standard weight-loss techniques, along with some of her own innovations.
Before Fields delves into the basics of planning a moderate, balanced weight-loss diet, she astutely notes that keeping weight off is often more of a struggle than losing it. It’s fitting, then, that the majority of her book focuses on helping readers train themselves to have a positive relationship with food. Fields include familiar weight-loss tips, including journaling your food intake, but her writing and expertise are at their best when she includes offbeat advice, such as how to be assertive with loved ones who don’t understand your new, healthy habits. In a genre that’s often reduced to a calories-in, calories-out mantra, she offers a welcome observation: “Weight lost or gained has no magical value by itself to make your fantasies come true or self-destruct,” she writes. “But learning how to take control of your life…can help you move on to realizing your dreams.” The book lags a bit when the author discusses the technical side of building a meal plan, presenting detailed information about nutrition content and serving sizes with little context to help readers understand how it all fits together. Fields also includes a charmingly illustrated section on exercise, although the exercises themselves—in particular, deep squats that send your knees far forward past your toes—may seem a bit antiquated. That said, although the book sometimes bogs down in details, it will likely provide some readers with the tools to make a change.
A fine diet and exercise manual, enlivened by the author’s take on body-image issues.Pub Date: Dec. 19, 2012
ISBN: 978-0963143440
Page Count: 372
Publisher: Nutrition For You
Review Posted Online: March 8, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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