The Complete Book of Food Counts

I belong to Weight Watchers. I recently reached GOAL. This book of Food Counts has been immensely helpful in figuring out the points for certain foods. Even if you're not doing Weight Watchers (which I strongly recommend) this book will enable you to know what foods are helpful to you in losing weight. Good luck and enjoy this wonderful, helpful book. I buy a new book every time a new edition comes out.

Very good book for counting calories and carbs. Highly recommend it especially to diabetics.

I just bought the latest edition of this valuable resource, my third upgrade of the book in the past 8 years. As an adherent of the Atkins diet, I wouldn't be without the information this provides me on the carbs, fat, and protein in my foods. It lists sodium and calories too, in case you want to know those. Seldom have I looked for a grocery-store food that isn't listed (I don't eat at restaurants much, so I can't attest to how comprehensive its data is in that area). If you want to know what your food is providing in the above areas, this is definitely the book to which to refer.

Together with a calculator, this book is indispensable in monitoring one's intake of the major macronutrients, etc. I first heard of it at the website of Dr. C. Everett Koop after learning how many grams of protein, carbohydrates, fat and fiber I should have every day for my age, height, sex, frame size and activity level, and I am glad that I was able to find it on this website and buy it. Despite the fact that under Fat only the Total number of grams of fat for each food item is listed rather than this as well as the number of grams of saturated (bad--cholesterol-raising) and unsaturated fat which is information I need from time to time, it gets five stars because it is so comprehensive and well organized. Not only does it list many unprocessed foods, but also many packaged and processed foods as well as fast foods, and its size and format enable the reader to find out what he need to know quickly and easily (and just about anywhere that he happens to be). Because I had had high cholesterol and need to watch my intake of saturated fat as well as total fat, I did buy another book here which does provide that information, The Food Bible by Judith Wills which I also recommend if you can buy two on this subject. However, I wouldn't want to be without this one especially since it is so complete and includes such a wide variety of foods in such a user friendly manner. It is been especially helpful to me in keeping my weight under control ( I am female, 5' 3 1/2" tall and I am just plain unhappy if I weigh more than a pound or two more than 107--which, with this book at hand, does not happen--it is NOT always necessary to count every calorie-just getting an idea of the number of calories in the foods that one eats on a daily basis can help one to exercise enough portion control so that problems don't arise in the first place. This book is the best resouce that I have for that). Highly recommended for implementing a healthy, balanced diet!

I HIGHLY recommend this book for any diabetic (Type I or II). With this book and a calculator, you can calculate the carb content of just about any food you come across.This is most useful for people who carb-count as opposed to follow a strict diet, but anyone will benefit.(Carb-counting involves estimating the carbohydrates in the food you're eating and taking the proper amount of insulin to cover it. With practice it's possible to achieve EXTREMELY tight control without having to worry about any special "diabetic diet" -- I know I couldn't live without it ;-) )