The premise of the book is great and the author really delivers. Great read. Highly recommended. .

This book does not offer anything new in terms of insights or advice. I'm concerned about the dietary suggestion as eating once a day is often a sign I'm getting ill and allowing my anxiety to get on top of me.

What did I just read? While I understand that diet has a lot to do with a persons mood and 2ell being, but this book?! It didn't offer any insight on how to cope or even deal with anxiety. It's all about this doctor's so called diet that will do it for you. Are you kidding me? In the past year I have lost 65lbs from changing my diet and exercise, but I still deal with anxiety. I eat very little carbs and sugar, but my anxiety is still there. I rarely drink alcohol anymore and drink at least 96oz of water daily and guess what my anxiety is still there. This book was a bunch of baloney and quite frankly a waste of an afternoon.

I did not find much new information in this book. The book seemed to focus more on explaining how stress can cause anxiety rather than telling you how to fix your medical issue. Several times the author encouraged the reader to read another of his books.

I did not agree with his one meal a day diet to reduce anxiety.

For me, it wasn’t enough new or useful information to make the book worth taking the time to read.

I received this galley from NetGalley.

When it comes to mental health, I always feel that advice from someone with firsthand experience, particularly someone who has qualifications to support that advice, can speak louder than that of someone who hasn't. Altshuler is a doctor who has experience of anxiety and shares in this book how he has come to manage that through dietary and lifestyle changes, so I was interested to read this book. However, for anyone who has read around the subject previously, there isn't a lot of revelatory advice in this book - take up hobbies, make connections with other people, reduce your intake of processed foods and sugar. This is all good advice. But I did struggle with how this advice was put across, both in terms of writing style and the form the advice takes. On numerous occasions Altshuler expounds the benefits of eating just once a day, which is unsustainable for most people and borders on dangerous. It is also not backed up by any research beyond personal experience, which is odd for a medical professional. Also odd is that the Dr Lecar diet this all appears to be based on isn't featured in any medical or other articles I could find. I felt the writing was disjointed and at times I struggled to understand the point being made. The delivery and soundness of the specific advice is quite poor, and I wouldn't recommend this book when there are more considered alternatives out there.

Thank you to NetGalley, Books Go Social, and the author for an ebook copy to review. As always, an honest review from me.

Unfortunately I cannot recommend this book. While it discusses ways to help with anxiety, most of the ways are not psychologically based or considered safe by most physicians. The author recommends extreme dietary changes to deal with anxiety, that are considered unhealthy by many people.

The book is mostly his personal story, which is valid and may work for him. The author also recommends to do daily relaxation and psychological work to help with anxiety. This would be very helpful for those with anxiety or anyone in general.

Overall, the book tells the author’s journey with anxiety, what’s worked and what didn’t. However, I can’t in good conscience recommend that most people make the dietary changes in the book. Of course always consult with your doctor first regarding your own health.

As someone with an anxiety disorder I was hoping this would be a different take on the usual self help book. It was easy to follow and some helpful tips, but it seemed as a promotion for the diet book by the same author. Short and easy read but not really helpful

This 'book' reads more like a medical /personal article written for a magazine. The so called 'diet' the author advocates is potentially harmful in the long term and is very similar to the current fad of no carbs. While the regimen he has written may work for him, one should seek advice from their primary care MD before attempting. Regular rest, meditation, prayer , exercise, along with healthy regular meals are proven methods to good physical and mental health. This seems to be the author's personal journey. I have read this book complimentary from the publisher via NetGalley. The opinions expressed are my own.

The author of this book offered information that I had already heard separately before and put them together in a way that made me sit and look at the root cause of my anxiety and how I can productively go about limiting it. This book is a great read if you have an open mind and are willing to take an honest look at your anxiety and lifestyle choices contributing to it.

I picked up this book because my eldest son who is diagnosed with Pervasive Development Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified or PDD-NOS, suffers from debilitating anxieties and now insomnia. He is desperate for help with these chronic illnesses. I am desperate to help him.
I found much of the information to be eye-opening and new. I have wondered if a change in diet and more exercise would be beneficial to my son.
We will be trying many of the suggestions found in the book. I recommend this book if you are seeking answers.
Thank you.

The title to this book instantly caught my eye as I have been a life long sufferer from anxiety, carb addiction and insomnia. Now I'm not going to say I learnt alot from this book as I did really already know what I was being told, but this made me actually think about what I am currently ignoring. The author explains very week how insulin resistance can affect your body and it made a world of sense to me. There is references at the end of the book to back up some of the facts and studies he is talking about, so it is clear the author has done some research. The writing style is very easy to follow but has some grammatical errors. I also noticed that in two separate paragraphs a word was repeated 5 times within 4 consecutive sentences which I feel is a little sloppy in the writing department. When I eventually got to read about the suggested diet I was very surprised and slightly skeptical. Not because of the smaller amount of food I would be eating but lack of green vegetables and meat, I'm wondering if restricting yourself to only the suggested meal for an entire month might result in some vital deficiencies. I'm thinking I may give this a go, but have the diet for breakfast and lunch and then have a very light dinner involving lowfat meat and green vegetables but no carbs. I'm interested to see how this goes in order to improve my life. I'm glad I read this as it has kicked my butt back into gear and to stop eating so much sugar!