Eat Chew Live, how you eat matters more than what you eat by John M Poohillil, MD. The central premise of this book is that conventional wisdom on diabetes, weight loss, and nutrition is wrong. In order to lose weight and control your diabetes or pre-diabetes you must return to the way you ate when you were a toddler, or pre teen, before you were trained to crave high carb grain based fast food, and when knew enough to eat only enough to supply your body with the nutrients it needed. You return to this ideal state by training your brain to listen to your taste buds, by eating slowly enough to taste your food. When the food loses it flavor that is the body signaling you have had enough eat . Your ability to assess the nutrients in your food is directly proportional to the amount of time nutrients remain in contact with your taste and smell receptors. You should as an adult eat the widest possible variety of foods to get the nutrients body needs and your is driving you to eat Poothullil contends that there are 3 reasons why people overeat. People eat for pure enjoyment even when they are not hungry, when they are hungry they ignore the body’s signals to stop, and finally they eat to reduce stress, when they should reduce stress by other means. While Poothullil is pro a wide variety of foods he very anti-grain based foods pastas, breads, anything that contains carbs. He feels that overeating carbs is the major cause of weight gain and diabetes. Much of what Poothullil says seems like things your doctors have told you, chew your food, eat less bread, and eat only when you hungry. The material on returning to eating like a toddler seems strange. His argument seems reasonable but the book has few footnotes and no supporting bibliography. Reader has no means of verifying his claims independently. The end of each chapter is summarized and the book has a good index. ( )