Simple Simon's Guide to Diet and Nutrition.
Published: October 2009 by Mount Davis Press in print and pdf formats. For permission to copy anything, write to enquiries@mountdavis.co.uk
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Commonsense applied to the everyday problems of weight control and
healthy diet. A simple, easily-applied approach, and all the nutritional
facts you need, packed into 52 pages including Quick-Find on the first
page and a comprehensive Index on the last. Weighs less than 80 grams,
but has the punch of 800! Print and pdf versions, or both if you prefer
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The lighthearted, yet completely solid, scientific
approach, is shown in extracts from the Foreword, and a colour version
of the Body Mass Indicator, below.
"Yet another diet book? There must be thousands!
Simple Simon thinks that there is a need for a
straightforward straight-talking approach to the problems of healthy
diet and weight control; based on solid facts and not the usual guff;
using plain words rather than confusing readers with what is supposed
to be higher-level science. A couple of examples may help to show why.
Recent official practice is to give energy values as kiloJoules per
100 grams, but fundamentally that ratio is no better than Calories per
ounce which most people in the English-speaking countries will find
easier to deal with. So we use both - and also show how to get Body
Mass Index direct from the familiar measurements for height and
weight. In any case kJ/100g is a thoroughly bad choice however clever
those officials thought they were. Such figures should be recast as
Joules per gram or per kilogram, conforming with correct SI practice,
which avoids using 100 as a multiple of a primary unit.
People are often led into intricate calculations and complicated
nutritional tables. Simple Simon thinks complexity is unnecessary. The
simple truth is that natural foods fall neatly into five classes
according to their calorie content. Then choosing your intake so as to
lose, gain or maintain weight is easy and to stay healthy you need to
know only a little more about the content of protein and other
essential nutrients; though sticking to your choice of intake is less
easy. ......
Obesity is the commonest medical condition of all in the
prosperous countries of the world, so Simple Simon places a lot of
emphasis on programmes for weight reduction and maintenance. Over-weight
is not the only nutritional problem, however common. More dangerous
still is under-nutrition from wanting to be super thin or from war,
famine, poverty, religious rules, personal beliefs, allergy, sensitive
guts and the aftermath of food poisoning or operations. Writing for a
general reader, we cannot deal properly and in detail with these
things, nor with the special diets required for special medical
conditions like diabetes or metabolic disorders. ......
Why Simple Simon? Well in the old English nursery rhyme he
didn't buy that pie, did he? Nutritionally he was better off without it.
And in the old English drinking game you have to do what Simple Simon
says, not copy what he does.
And why should Simple Simon think he has any right to tell
people what to do? The answer is experience, observation and personal
research. Look at pages 15, 18, 19, 20, 29, 37, 44, 45, 49."
