This book is a good example of a completely outdated view on diet and nutrition. If you wish to know what people thought was a balanced diet and nutritious in the 1950's, then by all means buy this book. If you are looking for something a bit more contemporary, find another book that has a more healthy view on carbohydrates and sugars and preparation of healthy meals without highly refined or processed ingredients.

This book is essentail for healthy people to enrich their nutritional background. It instructs people how to select healthy foods and avoid bad nutritional habits.

Together with a calculator, I found and find this book to be absolutely indispensable in putting together and maintaining a healthy balanced diet, getting all the necessary nutrients, maintaining my weight and limiting as much as possible my intake of saturated (bad-cholesterol raising, and therefore possibly lethal as possibly heart attack/atherosclerosis/heart disease causing, if consumed in excess) fat at this time (after my cholesterol was determined by my doctor to be too high and I was advised by him to change my eating habits and improve my nutrition generally). In the beginning of the book is a short introductory chapter in which the basics of a healthy balanced diet are briefly discussed together with a graphic representation of the FDA's FOOD PYRAMID GUIDE and discussion of it, including what constitutes a portion and how many portions of the various kinds of foods comprising the pyramid one should have daily generally for one's sex, age range and activity level. One thing the author said that I liked very much and which helps me is that if one doesn't eat as healthily as one should one day, there is always the next day in which to improve. This book is the only resource of its kind which I have which lists Total Fat in grams AND SATURATED FAT IN GRAMS. I appreciate the fact that this information is included and that it is presented in this way (and not just as a percentage of the Total in the case of Saturated Fat) as this makes it as easy as possible for me to process quicky and simply. It continues to be particularly helpful to me in limiting my consumption of total fat, in general, and saturated fat, in particular, which as I said above is someting that I have been told need to do on an ongoing basis and which I do try to do. It lists a wide variety of foods and nutritional information in a format that makes it possible for an unusually large number of them to be included without their taking up a great deal of space. This makes it paricularly helpful to me in making healthy choices - getting enough of the nutrients I need without too much of anything I should not have too much of, and exercising portion control. Highly highly recommeded.I wouldn't want to be without it and I continue to refer to it for necessary nutritional information on an ongoing basis. The author is highly qualfied and has done an excellent job.

This is the worst book I've ever read. Carroll wrote a crummy work of fiction and put a few quotes in between chapters, unbelievable. I would send you my copy, but I burned it five minutes after I read it (no joke). Try Peter Whitmer's book, which is much better.

I purchased this book keep my HST collection as complete as possible. I've owned it for 3 years and have never finished reading it. I gave it 2 stars out of generosity. Get Paul Perry's book if you can, it's a 6 star book with 5 being the best.

When Hunter's friends and colleagues are reminiscing about the great man, this book takes off. When it's left to the author to ape Hunter's style (complete with embarrassing confidences shared with YOU, dear Reader), relating plainly ficticious tales of wacky hi-jinks with the good doctor, it's tedious. All things considered, you'd be better off with 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' or 'The Great Shark Hunt'.

I hate you and your bloody book! Because of you my lad failed the 7th grade entrance exam, for homeschoolers-to-middleschoolers. The only section he didn't pass with flying colours was the math section. In fact he didn't pass it at all, and the teacher said it was because he wasn't prepared well enough. Had I done what I had wanted to in the first place which was buy his bloody books all from Harcourt-Brace, me young lad would be in 8th grade this year not bloody 7th. I would like to close this by saying,"Thank's a million." and I hope you go to heavan