The Food Report Card: 12,000 Favorite Foods--Including Brand-Name Products--Graded A, B, C, or D for Nutritional Value

by Thomas Yannios

Book Overview

"The Food Report Card" rates 14,000 foods, including brand name products, and assigns them a simple grade from A to D, based on fat, sugar, calories, fiber, and sodium. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020389655
• ISBN13: 9780020389651
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Food Report Card

Deciphering labels can turn food shopping into a real hassle for many of us. Thomas Yannios, M.D. makes it easier to decide which products to purchase in The Food Report Card. Dr. Yannios has analyzed the labels of thousands of foods, and compiled his results in a simple grade of A, B, C, or D. "You can make an enormous impact on your long-term health, and even on your appearance," Dr. Yannios writes, "if you do nothing else during your normal food shopping but select the A- and B-rated foods, and leave the C's and D's on the shelves back at the store." Dr. Yannios believes that atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is the number one health problem for many Americans. He says that "food significantly impacts" atherosclerosis, and that we can reduce the negative impact by carefully choosing what we eat. "People are confused," Dr. Yannios says, explaining that he wrote The Food Report Card to help eliminate confusion and enable people to choose foods that are good for them. He has grouped foods into categories, such as beverages, cereals and grains, milk and dairy products, and meats. Each food within a category is then listed in alphabetical order, such as chocolate milk and vegetable juice in the beverage section. Foods are then evaluated by brand name. For example, five brands of vegetable juice are analyzed and graded. He maintains that pattern for each food category, analyzing 12,000 foods altogether. All you have to do is look up a specific food to quickly determine whether it is an "A" food that you want to consume or a "D" food you want to avoid. People who want to choose the healthiest processed foods, but don't want to spend a lot of time calculating nutritional values from confusing labels, will find The Food Report Card informative and helpful.

Finally, an easy food guide!

This book makes eating well easy. If everyone followed the book obesity would be gone for good.

Excellent !

This is an excellent book! Its food rating system gives you a nice easy way to see how healthy the food you're eating is for you! After I read through the book and looked at the ratings for some of the things I usually eat, I was surprised! I'm going to make some significant changes to my diet! Bon appetit!

Excellent!! Provides a simplified strategy for healthy diet

I'm going to make some significant changes to my diet! I was quite surprised at the ratings on some of the food that I've been eating! This is an excellant book. It grades the nutritional value of the food you're eating and provides guidelines, based on what kind of diet you are trying to maintain on how much of a particular food, based on its grade, you should eat. It takes into consideration cholesterol, fats, salt fiber, vitamins and other factors that can effect your health.

Outstanding

This book should have been published eons ago. Not only have I re-evaluated my diet, it has provided me a source reference document to live by for a more healthy and productive life. Kudos to Dr. Yannios. Long live and prosper.