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A review by tgestabrook
Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome by Will Bulsiewicz
3.0
The writing style is a bit annoying, but this book is overall a pretty accessible summary of the latest discoveries about the gut microbiome. I particularly liked the refutation of elimination diets via the notion that we can train and improve our own microbiome just as we can every other part of our body.
The book makes a strong case for eating a large and diverse selection of vegetables, but the argument against eating meat and dairy felt a bit thin and glossed over - I'm drastically cutting meat consumption for a variety of other reasons, but I wasn't convinced by the arguments here. More elaboration would have been welcome.
The worst part of the book is the author's insistence that plant based eating will automatically result in weight loss. I'm sure a balanced microbiome makes it much easier to eat under your TDEE, but implying that weight change is anything other than calories in - calories out is discouraging at best and disingenuous at worst.
Lastly, the food plan seems like a pointless gimmick, but some of the recipes do seem pretty great.
The book makes a strong case for eating a large and diverse selection of vegetables, but the argument against eating meat and dairy felt a bit thin and glossed over - I'm drastically cutting meat consumption for a variety of other reasons, but I wasn't convinced by the arguments here. More elaboration would have been welcome.
The worst part of the book is the author's insistence that plant based eating will automatically result in weight loss. I'm sure a balanced microbiome makes it much easier to eat under your TDEE, but implying that weight change is anything other than calories in - calories out is discouraging at best and disingenuous at worst.
Lastly, the food plan seems like a pointless gimmick, but some of the recipes do seem pretty great.