Eat for Heat: The Metabolic Approach to Food and Drink

This is just the book I have been looking for. It has come at exactly the right time too.For me, this book answered a question that no other book had answered, why do I get cold hands and cold feet?You know, it used to be mainly my feet, but of late, also my hands. I always thought that was my circulation, and I have also been told that.Anyway, it was refreshing to get a different perspective on this. As I have been putting these ideas in practice, lo and behold, my hands and feet have actually become warm. My girlfriend doesn't comment on the coldness when we hold hands.Actually my whole body has started to warm up. To tell you a little bit more - I am as skinny as a rake, and I usually have layers and layers of clothing on, I mean thermal layers, scarves, hats, etc. My laundry pile is unusually large from all the clothes I am wearing in a day.Just last night I was outside in a suite and tie - okay, I had a short sleeve thermal shirt under my shirt, but no thermal leggings (long johns), no scarf, no hat, watching other people on the street, going by with jackets, scarves, etc. Anyway, that was a huge win for me, and so, what I can say is that the information in this book works for me!!And in this day and age of health - which is a complete labyrinth - to find this information is a godsend, and is a treasure.

Expands on a very important topic that seems to be forgotten amongst many other ideas in the pro-metabolic approach.

Matt Stone's books turn much of standard nutritional theory on its head. I have never dieted and consequently have always had a stable weight, however last year I started to train for a long cycle tour. Unfortunately I didn't eat enough. I was keeping a close eye on my weight, and because I wasn't losing weight, I thought I didn't need to eat much more than normal. All was well for about 6 months, but then I started to hate the thought of riding my bike, I became irritable and moody, and when I stopped exercising I ended up catching sinus infections back to back for about 5 months.I stumbled across Matt's work and read it with interest. It made sense to me that I had been depriving my body of nutrients and that I had made myself ill. I then decided to stuff myself with carbs and have gradually recovered to a point where I am no longer ill, much happier, but unfortunately 10lbs heavier - I may have overdone it slightly but I feel so much better. I will never again do endurance exercise without the proper amount of 'fuel'.

Interesting!! When I started reading this book I had a base temperature around 94' someimes as low as 93. i was eating healthy food, drinking lots of water and exercising. A week or so gradually changing my diet and stopping the exercise, my temperature is now in the 95's. Maybe I have a long way to go, but I am in my sixties and have hypothyroidism. I also seem to sleep better and the restless legs syndrome has stopped. I can't work out how it can be healthy, but I will continue a little while longer and see how it goes. My weight has remained constant despite the fat, sugar and salt consumption!! I wish there was more to read on the subject.

This book is awful, in my opinion. I don't mean the style, I mean the advice. From the interesting opening concepts of hospitals giving patients saline drips rather than just pure water, the book moves on to advise what are warming foods and cooling foods. Chocolate, ice cream & cola are in the list as warming, in combination with foods containing salt. Fruit is listed as cooling. When you're feeling cold eat warming food, and when you need to cool down choose from the cooling foods listed. I tried the ideas for one day. It was ridiculous. However from the other reviews on here it seems to work for others.A few days after I read this, the World Health Organisation said people should not have more than six teaspoons of sugar a day. I have since been reading up on sugar, and I am working on my minimising my sugar intake, which makes much more sense to me.

I enjoyed reading this book, but felt it was missing something in the 'how to do it' section. However the advice on not drowning your body internally with liquids I thought was pretty good, and I have reduced the amount of unnecessary drinks I was having just for something to do (ie when i wasn't thirsty) and I think it has made a difference. I have also taken up drinking coconut water which is fabulous.

Not for me, this must be the first book that I wanted to throw at a wall. I tried to be unbiased, after all trend setters often have a difficult time changing entrenched ideas: eg and apologise aftere scientific world Coppernicus, more recently Dr Atkins of the Atkins diet, who was the forerunner of the Paleo system of eating.I couldn't however, sustain that level of impartiality: if I followed his suggestions I would be seriously ill or dead.In fairness to Matt Stone I will try to finish his book, possibly in summer and check the references to research papers and peer reviews. If I change my mind I will amend my review and apologise.

This book is so painful to read that it is hard to glean any information from it. If you can bear the colloquialisms, tangents and self-deprecation you may be able to extract the arguments referenced in other reviews. It's worth a shot, but only just.