Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

One Sunday afternoon while flipping through the channels, I stumbled upon a Discovery Channel television program, Second Opinion, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, world-renowned Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center cardiovascular surgeon. In this particular episode of Second Opinion, Dr. Oz interviewed Dr. Joel Fuhrman about the relationship between nutrition and health. It was during this interview that I was introduced to Dr. Fuhrman’s book, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss. Many of the concepts discussed by Dr. Fuhrman resonated with me, since just a year ago in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Thursday Night Clinic I was treating numerous overweight patients with various ailments from diabetes to high blood pressure and/or cholesterol. Routinely, I would recommend alterations in nutrition and exercise as front line measures, yet almost invariable my patients lacked the motivation, nutritional education, and environment to implement my suggestions. Consequently, I prescribed medication to control their given condition. I decided to read Eat to Live as a medical student genuinely interested in dietary physiology and the well-being and education of my future patients as well as a health enthusiast interested in my own physical condition.