The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health [Hardcover]

by Bob Greene

"Eat sensibly and exercise," is Bob Greene's message, and in a friendly and personal style, he shows you how. Greene, an exercise physiologist and Oprah Winfrey's trainer, focuses on diet with a wealth of sound information and helpful strategies. Greene starts with a cutting overview of destructive diets, including those popular today. Then, after reviewing exercise essentials, he presents a refreshingly sensible plan for nutritious, healthy eating, with tools for keeping intake moderate. One key is eating breakfast, which boosts metabolism and helps you eat less all day. Another is distributing your calories over the course of the day rather than eating a lot at any one meal. You won't get bored with Greene's 85 enticing recipes, including Scrambled Egg Whites with Spinach and Orange, Breakfast Fried Rice, Gingered Butternut Squash Soup, Fish Chowder, Portabella Mushroom Burgers, Pan-Seared Fillet of Tilapia with Mango Tomato Salsa and Lentil Pancake, and Chocolate Almond Angel Food Cake. Greene's other books in the Make the Connection (with Winfrey) and Get with the Program series helped millions start a fitness program. This one will help people concerned with weight loss and health take their next steps towards a nutritious, moderate-calorie, lifetime eating plan. --Joan Price

Genres: Health, Nutrition, Nonfiction

Unknown Binding

First published December 31, 2002

About the author

Bob Greene is a personal trainer who writes on health and weight loss. He works and writes with Oprah Winfrey.

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Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

No new weight-loss secrets revealed here. Instead, Bob Greene reminds us about some good eating habits. When we make healthy meal and snack choices, along with spreading the calories out throughout the day, we will feel more satisfied and shouldn't be starved at the end of the day.

You may have heard it is best to spot eating by a certain time, like 6 or 7pm. But, I didn't realize that by spreading calories evenly over the course of the day, I won't be famished by dinner time. Greene advocates keeping the meals equal in calories. For me, this means a bigger breakfast and lunch and lighter dinner than I am used to. In addition, he adds a mid-morning and mid afternoon snack. Then by dinner, we won't want to consume everything in sight.

This is a big deal for me. Some days I've made healthy choices for breakfast and lunch. But was always starved at dinner. Greene points out that when breakfast and lunch portions are smaller, we get starved by supper time. That's when we make unhealthy choices. That's when I grab the potato chips.

[Jennifer Blaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Common sense ideas that of course make a lot of sense. I found the recipes to be unrealistic for every day life with little kids. My kids love all natural peanut butter, but I haven't tried the 12 dollar small jar of almond butter like the author suggests. My kids love fruits and veggies, so we are on the right track there. Anyway, an intersting read with good tips.

[KnoxnGnome · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoy Bob Greene's treatment of the plant-based diet sans all the "propaganda" which one gets with other books. I'm also weary of the low carb craze. This is a great book for people who want a no nonsense approach to weight control, a healthy diet, and an overall healthy lifestyle.

[Shell · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's really nothing new here if you've read many books on diet/nutrition but it's a good, common sense book if you need a refresher. No crazy fad diets, no promises of big weight loss with little effort, just smart basic information on eating healthy.

[Shelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is really good. It has 85 recipes in the back. His other books are really good to. I really like the one that Oprah Winfrey wrote a few chapters in about her struggle with weight.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh... good ideas on good eating. Repeats a lot of information from his other books. His recipes as-is don't thrill me, so I add lots of my own spice! =)

[yengyeng · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ah well, not exactly foodporn but the recipes are useful.