The Hay Diet Made Easy - A Practical Guide to Food Combining

"this book is totalling confusing it certainly does not make food combining easy just the opposite would not buy"
~ Written on 2008-05-18

"although i'm pretty savey when it comes to nutrition, i have no idea what i'm supposed to be doing with the whole protein-alkeline, starch-alkeline, protein-acid, starch-acid gubbins. very unclear and confusing. will be trying another hay diet book though as i've heard such great weight loss stories."
~ Written on 2005-01-07

"The title lets you think that this is a book which makes the Hay system of food combining easy to understand and manage. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. I was completely baffled by the structure and content of this book.

The author also seems to enjoy millet, which appears everywhere! I spent a couple of hours looking though the receipes exclaiming "Yuck" and laughing at some of the combinations. I think the sandwich suggestions made me give up altogether: (a) Cream cheese, yeast extract & salad cress. (b) Yeast extract & egg yoke. (c) Lettuce & yeast extract.

What is it with yeast extract?

If you want to read a more sensible book on the Hay diet, I recommend "Food Combining for Health" by Doris Grant and Jean Joice. It won't scare you they way this one does and will even tempt you enough to stick with the method for a few weeks - which is all you need to see whether this method works for you!

The bottom line is: if you're interested in the Hay diet, stay away from this book as it will only put you off!"
~ Written on 2002-06-17

"I also found the alkaline meal concept hard going. However in practice one ends up with three meals a day. One is mainly Carbohydrate, one is Protien with veg and sald but no carbohydrate and one is just veg and sald. I also found I needed somecarbohydrate at bed time. I wouldrecomend going fromthis book to "The Tao of Health Sex and Longetivity" which goes futher, takes longer toreadand understand but somhow seems more usefull and autorative in the long run.

If the drastic change in diet here recomended is just too much to do inone go thenyou need the other book "Potatoes Not Prozac"."
~ Written on 2002-02-23

"I have been and on and tried evry type of diet, both assisted nutritionists and non assisted self read books. All have had limited success. Hay is a way of life and not a diet, however the original works are too time consuming and not really motivating to get people going. It's not easy to abandon baguettes and Brie de Maux! I lost 8 kgs in the first 12 weeks, never hungry eat and drank as I wished, although today I cannot eat as much as I used to and I the thought of a protein and carbohydrate meal makes me feel heavy and bloated at the thought. This is something I would never have imagined possible before this book got me to re-adopt Hay. My rating is based on the concise practicality of the book."
~ Written on 2001-07-29