Review of The Art & Science of Rational Eating (Paperback)

The message of this book is that most human beings are genetically predetermined to be fat by the current standards of society( there is a lot of truth to this). You can try to lose weight, but you will most likely fail to keep it off, so you are better off not trying to lose weight and accepting yourself as you are.Should you be foolish enough to try, the authors offer some diet tips mixed in with REBT (cognitive therapy) all while reminding you that failure is likely.

The authors only give the reader examples from their weight control therapy groups of people who try to lose weight and fail.The examples that are painted in a positive light are patients who decide that losing weight is not worth the discomfort and who learn to accept being heavy.People who try to be fit are painted as being shallow and wasting their time on a triviality.

The authors claim to know a lot about nutrition, dieting and fitness.Yet, they recommend going on extremely low calorie diets because they think seeing fast results will keep people motivated.It is believed that crash diets are responsible for the yo-yo effect they decry and contributes to raising body weight set points.The authors also minimize regular exercise as a fat loss tool, claiming it helps a little, and is good for health, but it doesn't contribute much toserious weight loss. No wonder so many of their patients give up on trying to lose fat and focus on acceptance.

For what it is worth people do lose large amounts of weight and keep that weight off for long periods of time without being uncomfortable.People interested in this should go to the web site for The National Weight Control Registry [...]

The book has an interesting discussion about bigotry and the bigotry against heavy people.

I believe people who read the front cover of this book where "The sensible, sure-fire way to lose unwanted pounds" is printed will be disappointed. The contents of this book do not match the descriptions of it.This book is not a manual for making weight loss work.This book is about calling into question why people try to lose weight and encouraging people not to do so.

If you are interested in learning to use REBT(cognitive therapy) as a tool for learning how to have better eating habits "How To Stick To A Diet" by Windy Dryden is a far better choice.

Product Description
This is the first book to systematically explore the biological psychologicalcauses of eating disorders and how to control them using the principles of rational emotivetherapy (RET) and cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT).
The Art and Science of Rational Eating teaches RET principles of unconditional self-acceptance; how to alwaysaccept and endorse oneself--even when some eating or otherbehaviors are self-defeating.This is the path toward successful self-control and weight control.
Albert Ellis, Ph. D., the originator of RET and CBT, has worked closely with associatesMicheal Abrams, Ph. D., and Lidia Dengelegi, Ph. D., to develop this unusual self-help bookdevoted especially to eating disorders.It is a needed self-help book for those suffering frombulimia and anorexia.

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