''Eat This, Not That!'' is a media franchise owned and operated by
co-author
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David Zinczenko.
It bills itself as "The leading authority on food, nutrition, and health."
No independent authority has verified that claim.
The original book series was developed from a column from ''
Men's Health
''Men's Health'' (''MH''), published by Hearst Communications, Hearst, is the world's largest men's magazine brand, with 35 editions in 59 countries; it is the bestselling men's magazine on American newsstands.
Started as a men's health magazin ...
'' magazine written by David Zinczenko and
Matt Goulding. The franchise now includes a website, quarterly magazine, videos, e-books and downloadable PDFs.
''Eat This, Not That!'' brands itself as the "No-diet weight loss solution" and provides recommendations regarding food choices with the aim of improving health. Criteria for unhealthy dishes center on its levels of
calories
The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat. The large calorie, food calorie, dietary calorie, kilocalorie, or kilogram calorie is defined as the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one liter o ...
,
fat
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The term often refers specif ...
,
saturated fat
A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds between the carbon atoms. A fat known as a glyceride is made of two kinds of smaller molecules: a short glycerol backbone, and fatty acids that each cont ...
,
trans fat
Trans fat is a type of unsaturated fat that occurs in foods. Small amounts of trans fats occur naturally, but large amounts are found in some processed foods made with partially hydrogenated oils. Because consumption of trans fats is associated ...
,
sodium
Sodium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Na (from Neo-Latin ) and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 element, group 1 of the peri ...
, and/or
sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose
Glucose is a sugar with the Chemical formula#Molecular formula, molecul ...
content. The healthier alternatives often include higher levels of
fiber
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and/or
protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residue (biochemistry), residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including Enzyme catalysis, catalysing metab ...
.
A quarterly magazine, ''Eat This, Not That!'', was launched in 2015 and is distributed by Meredith nationwide.
Reviews
The original ''Eat This, Not That!'' was reviewed by
Tara Parker-Pope of ''
The New York Times
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.'' Well Blog writes, "The comparisons are always interesting and often surprising." However, critics did not agree with every comparison. Parker-Pope went on to write, "Chances are you won't agree with every item. For instance, in a comparison of choices for a child's Easter basket, I can't figure out why Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, with , are an 'eat this' while Marshmallow Peeps, with , are a 'not that.
Dawn Jackson Blatner, the spokeswoman for the
American Dietetic Association
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, said in ''
USA Today
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'', "There are several healthful options for the restaurants. These are real changes people can make to save hundreds of calories."
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