She then lets the fat-shaming hammer fall when she says that she was once carrying 150lb on her 5’5 frame **GAAAASP** and that she was FAT.Ĭonsidering that the average American woman is 5’4 and 140-150lb, healthy or not, Dr.
Gottfried reminds readers again and again in the book about how she’s a Harvard-educated doctor. But most of the testimonials are from alternative medicine practitioners and other people who have no credibility where nutrition and science are concerned. James (50 Shades of Grey) and Tori Spelling, proving that you don’t have to write an exceptionally intelligent piece of literature to get on the list.Īs far as testimonials from her colleagues, Dr. But it sure is profitable for people like the author of The Hormone Reset Diet to mention the fact that she’s indeed in the ‘NYT bestseller club’.Īlways remember – so are Danielle Steele, E.L. Sure, they’ve got anatomy and physiology, but as The Hormone Reset Diet shows, doctors can be relatively clueless about diets and medical nutrition therapy.Īnd just as an aside, as I’ve said in previous posts, being a bestselling author – even a New York Times bestselling author – qualifies you to do NOTHING except maybe sell books. But what the general public doesn’t seem to get is that doctors don’t necessarily have any thorough training in nutrition. It’s funny how being educated at Harvard, Stanford, or any ivy-league school, seems to legitimize pretty much anything a doctor writes about. FLAG, and so are the things she’s peddling. This isn’t exactly a conflict of interest, but it’s a BIG. So we’re all ‘toxic’? Talk about fat shaming.īy the way, the author sells her own brand of nutrition supplements, which are mentioned multiple times in her book. Except no, because everyone, not just overweight people, has fat cells. She claims that ‘if you’re overweight, you’re toxic by definition because endocrine disruptors are stored in your fat cells’. The author proclaims that many overweight people have a ‘broken metabolism’, implying that there’s something to be ‘fixed’ here, and that of course, her plan can fix it! Did you hear that, overweight people? You’re BROKEN! Then add a schedule that looks like it’s legit – so in this case, it’s every 3 days.Īdd a promise that’s time-sensitive – here we have losing 15lb in 21 days, which is short enough to lure the ‘least amount of work for the most benefits’ people in, and enough weight to excite people. Add a factor that’s mysterious – so in this case hormones, because not a lot of people know anything about them. Take one doctor, educated at a universally recognized and esteemed school. The Hormone Reset Diet has all the trappings of a doctor-created fad diet: Aside from making me totally irritated for the few days that I was reading it, I got a real feel for what the diet is all about. There isn’t enough information online about the actual diet and the research it’s based on, so I took one for the team and did the deep dive into it. It literally pained me to do this, but I went out and spent the $23 on The Hormone Reset Diet book and read it through so I could write this review. Sara Gottfried because I wanted to finally sink my teeth into a bestselling hormone-based diet book to see if the hormone-food-diet-weight theories – especially coming from a medical doctor – were really credible. If you’re thinking of doing a hormone-based weight loss diet, you should probably read this review first. I probably could have reviewed any of the diet books dealing with hormones, food, and weight – there are so many and I suspect they’re all the same.
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