The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body
By Cameron Diaz
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Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, now a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the life-changing lessons that has fed Cameron’s hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, she shares what she has learned and continues to discover about nutrition, exercise, and the mind/body connection.
Grounded in science and informed by real life, The Body Book offers a comprehensive overview of the human body and mind, from the cellular level up. From demystifying and debunking the hype around food groups to explaining the value of vitamins and minerals, readers will discover why it’s so important to embrace the instinct of hunger and to satisfy it with whole, nutrient-dense foods. Cameron also explains the essential role of movement, the importance of muscle and bone strength and why we need to sweat a little every day.
The Body Book does not set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year. It offers a holistic, long-term approach to making consistent choices and reaching the ultimate goal: a long, strong, happy, healthy life.
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz has been telling stories as a film actor for more than two decades. She is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Body Book and an excellent cook. She supports numerous causes that advocate environmental concerns, education, and the empowerment of women and girls. Cameron lives with her husband and assorted animals in Los Angeles.
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Reviews for The Body Book
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Body Book: This may not be my favorite book ever written, but I totally appreciated it. I had listened to the audiobook version from my library, but I'm still going to pick up my own hardcover copy as a reference.
Most of the information is stuff that many of us may have picked up by now, but Diaz doesn't take that for granted, which was great. You never know which pieces and parts are the ones that people already know and which aren't. That said, I found it great to have everything compiled into one volume that was easy to get through and not laden with technical terms or jargon.
As someone who found a culture of fitness in the latter half of those years I have lived so far, I also appreciated that the book denounced the (fad) diet, makes the distinction between "goal weight" and having a healthy body, and basically breaks down how your eating habits can improve upon pretty much everything in your life. Not that you're killing yourself with every bite or any of the crazy stuff, but that you can help your health now and later in life without certain foods or with others.
There's an extensive "practical application" section that provides advice and encouragement that anybody could use and there's no "this is the way to do it that will definitely work for everybody". It's all about how to listen to your body and it's needs and ignoring what society says you should look like. If you hadn't guessed, I'm all for just about everything in the book.
The narrator was great too. I had originally thought that Cameron Diaz would narrate but she passes it off after the intro and comes back in at the conclusion. The narrator, Sandy Rustin, captures Diaz's speaking style and I had to keep reminding myself that it wasn't her. It was freaky. Maybe I'm just crazy. Crazy is possible with this.
Anyway, it's a great book, particularly as a reference for your own health and options as you navigate new, healthier habits, if you need them as I do. I get better and worse and the encouragement was just what I needed in this newest phase of improving my own health. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Body Book is told in a optimistic, friendly and humorous voice of Cameron Diaz and is a compilation of boring information explained in a very simple manner, giving a lot of understandable and relatable examples.The book does not speak of anything new or controversial, yet it is very useful in the sense that it helps you remember all the things you already know and keep inspiring you to try hard to be healthy, so you can live a long and happy life.This is definitely a book to highlight passages and tips and revisit them as often as needed.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It would be easy to dismiss this one as another fluffy celebrity diet book but it's much more than that, it's a level-headed book about knowing yourself, doing your best with what you have and eating, moving and thinking in ways that make you better at living. This is a sensible, smart book written as if Cameron is your big sister offering advice. Not preachy, just sensible. I would love this to get into the hands of many young women who are struggling with self-image. It doesn't say that this weight or that weight is right, but that there is an ideal weight where you can do things with yourself and feel good and that's where you need to aim.Cameron Diaz admits to bad habits that she's working with changing, but that occasionally she does indulge herself but she knows that she can't do that all the time to herself and that we should follow suit. It's probably not for everyone but I found it had a lot of food for thought for me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is a really interesting book to understamd the basics of your body and she is really happy to share what she knows, the only thing I did not like is that she repeats the same stuff over and over and over again, after a while it is annoying, butreally good information otherwise. glad I read it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An amazing book to explore your body at your own, for more healthier, happier life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The information is nothing new, it's common sense - which in itself is refreshing. But her enthusiasm and motivation is inspiring.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was more of an easy-reading biology textbook. It covered nutrition, biology, chemistry, anatomy, and the importance of sleep, nutrients, fitness, and mindset. Everything was well laid out and easy to follow, I just wish there were details or suggestions for clean eating on a budget.