Eating Well (The Magazine & Web Site) www.eatingwell.com

This is the first time I've reviewed a magazine on this site.  As we all know there's no shortage of magazines.  I'm giving away my age here, but when I was a kid there was Look, Life and a handful of others, and that was about it.  The magazine rack in the mom & pop store was about five foot long and carried most everything.  Now the Barnes & Noble magazine racks are two hundred or so feet long and there's still a lot of things missing.  The beauty of all the magazines is that even relatively small groups of people can have well researched and written information that's geared to just their needs.

I'm very bullish on "Eating Well" magazine.  It was recently sent to Positive Results Studio as a free trial issue.  What perfect timing.  I have been working on a new diet for my clients I call The Real Diet, and I've been going through the diet with two particular clients to try to establish just what would be needed to implement the diet.  One of them was very glad to have the basic nutritional information I was giving her, but she felt that what she really needed was more detailed recipes.  These would have to be recipes that included basic nutritional breakdown, like calories, protein, fats, etc.  I started to work on these.  I soon realized what a huge amount of work making say ten recipes with the nutritional breakdown would be, it would take me days.  It was about that time that I stumbled across "Eating Well."  Here were great recipes (a lot better and more varied than I could come up with) that included the nutritional breakdown.  The whole slant of the magazine is not just "good," gourmet-like food, but good, gourmet-like food that's low calorie and nutritional.  What a find.  I'm hoping that this is just the first of a new wave of magazines that address not just eating, but eating well. 

For anyone that's reading this I'd like to direct you to their web site www.eatingwell.com .  The site has a lot of great stuff like a database of previous issues with recipes and recipes organized by category.  On the web page they call themselves, "an entirely new kind of food magazine, an intelligent ally for these times of unprecedented change in the ways we eat and think about food."  I have high hopes that this is true, that people are changing their ideas about eating and food.  I like to think that people are realizing that as far as the US goes there's more than enough food, what we really need is nutrition and health, those are the things we're short on.

I've been showing the magazine to many of my clients and it's created some excitement.  I realized that as far as nutrition goes I've been telling my clients a lot of don'ts, no wonder they couldn't get started.  I was kind of like a spoil sport; don't eat this, don't eat that.  I realize that what I need to do is help people with what they can do, with what they can eat.  So if anyone has some other books, or probably better yet, magazines that have "good" food with a concern for nutrition, please email me at rudy.rich@verizon.net or rudyrich_2@hotmail.com .  (That's rudyrich_2).

Thanks,

Rudy