The Dorm Room Diet: The 8-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works
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Introducing a fresh new voice and a simple 8-step program specifically created for college students by a college student—a complete lifestyle guide to eating well and staying fit.
Like many girls, Daphne Oz struggled with her weight as a teenager and couldn’t stick with the extreme restrictions of fad diets. She was able to seize control over her health and her weight only when she recognized the golden opportunity offered by the major transition to college life. With the help of her father and grandfather, both cardiac surgeons, and her grandmother, a homeopathic practitioner, she developed the eating and exercise habits that would help her lose 10 pounds in her first semester. So much for the proverbial Freshman 15! All her friends wanted to know how she did it. Now they, and thousands of others, can.
Daphne’s 8-step program shows college students how to stop eating out of emotional need and examine when, where, and especially what… More >>
The Dorm Room Diet: The 8-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works
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The review I heard on NPR suggested to me that this book would be a wonderful gift for my daughter, a college freshman. She is athletic, trim, works out every day, and is very careful about what she eats. To my surprise, she refused to open the book because she assumed from what she had heard about it from her friends that my giving it to her implied that I thought she was fat and getting fatter. Dads, beware!
OK — I should start out by saying I’m not a college student. I’m a 44-year-old who’s always struggled with my weight and read just about every diet book ever written. So, although much of the advice is good, I’ve seen almost all of it before. But I think what bugged me most is that the book is very repetitious and padded — she gives the same tips and the same “Friends” and “Foes” food lists over and over, and if there’s one thing that drives me nuts, it’s a padded book! There’s lots of white space and big colored blocks, too. The useful info could have been condensed down to about 25 pages. Also, I think some of her natural/ herbal rememdies are bogus. Echinacea was recently proven to be absolutely worthless in fighting colds — and I think those test results were printed over a year ago, before this book went to press. She also makes magical claims for grapefruit and herbal teas, none of which I think are true. I’m surprised that a doctor’s daughter would include this stuff.
The upshot: maybe if you’re a college student, suddenly have a weight problem for the first time in your life, and don’t know what the h— to do about it, this book will be helpful to you. But if you’re a lifelong hardcase dieter like me, you can probably skip it! I found “French Women Don’t Get Fat” and “Food Cop” (by Yolanda Bergman) more helpful.
Just because your dad is a big shot at Columbia and published a book doesn’t mean you can write
The book was so easy to understand and user friendly. I like her style of writing and the way she has set up the information! I want to pass it down to my future kid when they go off to college!
Good material, but a bit hard for the average college student. Even a friend who is in great shape thought it was hard.