Book Review: The Home Edit Life

The authors show you the most common spaces, items they come across, and how they go through the process of organizing it. The focus is on function first and then beauty. The goal is to use your space to honor and highlight what you love.

The book has an Introduction, Part 1: Adopting the 360 Mindset, Part 2: Organizing for How You Really Live, and the Finishing Touches.

Check out my book review and golden nuggets on LinkedIn.

Shearer, C. and Teplin, J. (2020) The Home Edit Life: The no-guilt guide to owning what you want and organizing everything. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers.

Book Review: Tiny Habits

 

The book is thorough and meant to be a step-by-step guide to help you craft new behaviors, stop unwanted behaviors, and influence others’ habits. The examples, stories, and exercises ensure that the reader has ample opportunities to digest and apply the principles of tiny habits. I highly recommend this book if you are prepared to do some work and follow through for success.

For my full review--including golden nuggets--go to LinkedIn.

Fogg, BJ. (2020). Tiny habits: The small changes that change everything. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Book Review: Sacred Cow

Sacred Cow: The Case for  (Better) Meat explores the intersection between optimal human food and regenerative agriculture. To cover the case for “better meat,” the authors address the three main criticisms against meat: nutritional, environmental, and ethical. 
They take a thorough dive into each issue and make a convincing case that animals are essential to healthy, sustainable food production. The shortcomings in our current industrial, agricultural systems can be remedied through methods of regenerative agriculture. 

I recommend this book to all eaters. Check out my full review on LinkedIn.

Rodgers, D. and R. Wolf (2020). Sacred Cow: The case for (better) meat. Dallas: BenBella Books, Inc.

Strategies for Weight Loss and Improved Health

Check out a one-hour presentation, Strategies for Weight Loss and Improved Health, that I shared with the World Bank Group. The body is complex--affected by what you eat, when you eat, how much you eat, hormonal balance, and the interaction with the gut. We will attack the topic through a three-pronged approach: diet, behavior, and lifestyle. Tune in to see what strategies you can implement today to lose weight! Follow me on Instagram, @SimpsonNutrition.

Book Review: The Fatburn Fix

Family physician Catherine Shanahan, MD, provides a plan to help reboot your fatburn potential. She explains how to restore your ability to burn body fat and how you can shift your metabolic health by following five core rules: eat natural fats, eat slow-digesting carb, seek salt, drink plenty of water, and supplement with vitamins and minerals.

There are three parts: Achieve Your True Health Potential, Meet Your Metabolism, and The Fatburn Fix Plan. I appreciate how the information is presented and generally agree that most people would find the plan doable. It might be appealing to the person who wants to slowly ease into low carb and not give up some of the higher carb foods like legumes and grains.

I would not recommend this book. Check out my full review on LinkedIn.

Shanahan, C. (2020). The fatburn fix: boost energy, end hunger, and lose weight by using body fat for fuel. New York: Flatiron Books.

Book Review: Ingredients

This book provides insight regarding how scientific data is collected, disseminated, and consumed regarding ingredients. The author shares the journey of uncovering information about what we eat, drink, inhale, and put on our bodies.

He offers this summation: “Pay attention to safety alerts from the CDC or the FDA. Other than that, if you read something about food and health—especially individual foods, like kale and eggs—on the Internet, treat it like a kitten: have fun playing with it, but don’t let it change your life” (245).

I would only recommend this book to someone who wants the details on why you cannot believe every headline or study that comes out, especially regarding food.

Check out my full review on LinkedIn.

Zaidan, G. (2020). Ingredients: The strange chemistry of what we put in us and on us. New York: Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC.

Strategies for Healthy Eating While Working from Home

Sharing a 30-minute presentation given to WBG on Strategies for Healthy Eating while Working from Home. Discover how to structure your time, control your environment, keep it simple, and optimize nutrition while working from home. Follow me on Instagram, @SimpsonNutrition.