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Nutrition Made Clear

By: Roberta H. Anding,The Great Courses
Narrated by: Roberta H. Anding
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Summary

Nutrition is essential to living a healthy, happy, and successful life. Yet a world of misconceptions and promises of easy results too often stands in our way - and can even be harmful to our overall health.

The key is to cut through the noise and find the medically backed, statistically proven information about healthy eating and living. These 36 in-depth lectures explore the fundamentals of good nutrition and offer a practical guide for applying these fundamentals to your lifestyle.The power of nutrition lies not just in grasping the concepts behind it, but also in applying those concepts to daily living. This means learning where to find authoritative nutrition information, mastering the science behind nutrients and the body, recognizing what your personal daily requirements of each nutrient should be, building a distinct exercise regimen, and more.

A dietitian and award-winning lecturer, Professor Anding gives you a wealth of invaluable tips you can easily apply to your own eating habits. You'll learn how to calculate your own dietary needs, how to create your own nutrition and exercise plans, how to recognize when a product or service is really a health fraud, and more.

Crafted with the needs of individual people in mind, this course is both a fascinating learning experience and the perfect investment in your personal health - one that will educate you, motivate you, and reward you for the rest of your life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2009 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2009 The Great Courses

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Good information - rather too American

This provides a very thorough grounding on general nutrition. I liked the narrator, very clear and obviously knows what she is talking about. But it is aimed at an American audience and all the references are to American websites, research etc. Still interesting, but I would prefer an English version.

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Useful for the basics but seems dated in places

Interesting summary of nutrition as of, I believe, 2005 presented in a clear and engaging way. As the author says herself nutrition is still a young science and new discoveries can be expected to overturn current dogma.

Where I found this pertinant was in the confidence that the 'right' diet is the SAD (Standard American Diet) and in such discussions as how low carb (keto) is bad, muscle training should be done by individual groups of muscle and no mention of the benefits of fasting.

Worth a listen for a summary of nutrition but balance with the current info being shred by people like dom d'agostino.

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Quite good and comprehensive

A quite good and comprehensive 'mainstream' introduction to nutrition, based on solid scientific evidence as available at the time. The format is the usual Great Courses format, i e separate lectures with an introductory snippet of Bach music, and audience applause at the end - not distracting at all, but feels quite natural. The lecturer is heard perfectly clearly throughout, and delivers the text in an engaging style.

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A sad piece of "knowledge"

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

This could be so much better if they dropped the music stings and applause surrounding every chapter! Also, if the content and teachings here was up to date with todays science, it could actually be OK

Has Nutrition Made Clear put you off other books in this genre?

In this genre there are many traps to fall in. I will continue to buy books about nutrition, but will stay away from this format.

What didn’t you like about Professor Roberta H. Anding’s performance?

She isn't the worst thing here. The production simply kills her and makes me turn it off even if I actually want to hear what she teaches!

You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Not many, and I'm trying to be nice. Not even that I bought it on a sale for quite cheap redeems the time I wasted on this.

Any additional comments?

I beg of all you audiobook producers, PLEASE stop inserting music and soundeffects into your products! It's annoying and I want to hear the content, not pianos and/or trumpets mixed twice as loud as the person reading/speaking.

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Nutrition made VERY clear

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Really good book and would recommend to anyone who wants to know about nutrition. Very happy with the content.

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Cannot recommend it highly enough.

If you could sum up Nutrition Made Clear in three words, what would they be?

Clear. Comprehensive. Credible.

What did you like best about this story?

Good practical advice for every day healthy living. Not bound to some fluffy vegan lifestyle or something like that.

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Not worth a listen, outdated, lacking in knowledge

Im not sure where to start! I’m shocked at how bad this audiobook is. I had great expectations after listening to another one of the great courses but this was so disappointing in so many ways.

First of all absolutely no science is used to back up any of her claims, no studies mentioned, data used etc just lots of anecdotal stories from her own experiences, she constantly mentions her own credentials as if these will give her examples of one person experiencing something any more weight as if they should be able to replace actual peer reviewed studies with actual statistically significant data.
The lecturer, despite all her impressive sounding credentials comes across as lacking in knowledge, she constantly contradicts herself, gives a lot of outdated advice and seems to go into huge amounts of detail on some things which seem irrelevant and gives only half pieces of a lot of other information. She also repeats herself a lot! Her knowledge and information given on fats seems very outdated and even incorrect in areas and she needs to educate herself on vegan and low carb diets both of which she seems against.

She tells many stories all of which are lacking so much detail that they are either completely uninteresting, very confusing or don’t seem to have a point to them. Take the story of the 27 year old football player that had a heart attack: what was the actual cause??, the mother who was feeding her baby cornstarch in water with strawberry flavouring instead of breast milk or infant formula, WTF??? She also uses a lot of analogies, a lot are to do with driving, none add anything at all to what she is trying to say and just come across as patronising, in fact she generally comes across patronising and self important as if her listeners are all idiots and she is the fountain of knowledge on all things to do with nutrition.

It was also just difficult to listen to with so many favourite phrases being repeated just to fill in space it seemed “often times”, “keep in mind”, “if you are going to...”, “it’s important to remember...”
Another weird thing is that she focusses a lot on footballers which means that she talks about the danger of not enough salt, of drinking far too much water during a marathon, of not getting enough carbohydrates etc etc all of which are completely irrelevant to most normal people.

Long story short, definitely not worth listening to in the slightest. Save yourself some time and money

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75% great

The first three Quarters was Great, the last few Chapters are more USA biased, looking at US Labeling of Food. However its worth getting it for the first part. 100% recommend

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Nutritious Course

If you could sum up Nutrition Made Clear in three words, what would they be?

Changed My Life

Which character – as performed by Professor Roberta H. Anding – was your favourite?

Herself

Any additional comments?

This audiobook seems well balanced and a pleasure to listen to. A lady with rich experience guides you through the myths of diet, and takes a scientific approach which, of course, is always open to review. Well worth it, and something on which I could make positive steps in my life.

I particularly like the integration of exercise and nutrition in the thinking- an holistic approach built on reductionist building blocks. Scientific in places, but Roberta guides you through.

A tonic.

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Simple good messages.

Good balanced health advice with some evidence quoted to back them. Good understanding of the human body. No real dramatic or particularly interesting messages here. Quite a lot of repetition as you get to the later chapters.

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