Food and Love

by Gary Smalley

Book Overview

What we eat affects every aspect of our lives, from our physical health to our emotions to our ability to love. Trusted relationship expert Gary Smalley demonstrates the connection between healthy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842355200
• ISBN13: 9780842355209
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Non-Traditional Diet Book

If you are looking for a step by step guide to losing weight, this book is not for you. However, if you are interested in uncovering the reasons you overeat and how you can improve your health and personal relationships by changing your eating habits-this is the book for you. Diets come and go, and many of us remain trapped in the cycle of overeating and harboring negative thoughts about ourselves. Smalley explains how there is a clear cycle we all follow when we make poor food choices, and these food choices carry over into our personal lives. For me, this book has made a big difference in the way I view food and its role in my life. Smalley offers tips on foods to avoid as well as foods to eat heartily. But more importantly, he teaches you how God can heal your food addiction and improve you relationships.

This rings TRUE!

I read this book after starting the Prism weight loss program, and it was so insightful, clear & motivating! Others I recommended it to found it extremely helpful as well. If you have a problem with weight or relationships, you will find great comfort and practical advice in this book. It even included encouraging info on how to deal with friends & family who are hurtful or who feel hurt by your change in diet. I recommend this as a good read for learning to eat a healthier diet in general too. Everyone could benefit!

Awesome

Awesome, could not put the book down..so inspiring and motivating..and real...very well can change your life....

Good stuff!

Very eye opening - a lot of what is presented is not really new - just stated in a new and attention getting way. Well worth the time - it could very well change your life!

His best work ... 'nuf said

Before this book came out I heard Gary interviewed on the radio about it. I became very interested and looked forward to it being released. I have been interested lately in improving my diet and generally taking better care of myself. Upon recieving the book at Christmas I took to reading it. From the very beginning I could not put it down. He asks 'why is a relationship guy writing a book on food?' I had the same question. He then went on to prove the connection and the cycle that many of us live in where the health of our diet and the health of our realtionships contribute to one another. I realized that there was a figurative hole in my heart that I was trying to fill with food. He then wrote a chapter that he stated was the most important that he has ever written, which talks about a 7 step process (somewhat similar to the typical 12 step process) to fill the hole with the Lord and not food or any other addiction. You see, we fill the empty feeling of disfunctional relationships with bad food and the bad foods cause us to physically feel ..., which then hurts relationships. This is the negative cycle.Read this book with an open mind and you will agree that this unique book is his best work.