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Mixing Bible Sales and Nutrition Advice If you are looking for serious dietary information, do not buy this book. You will get much better information in reading THE ZONE, THE SCHWARZBEIN PRINCIPLE, LIVING THE LOW-CARB LIFE, SYNDROME X (Challem, et al), and ATKINS' NEW DIET REVOLUTION. If you are diabetic, pre-diabietic, hypoglycemic, or have sugar cravings, read ATKINS DIABETES REVOLUTION, and for insulin dependent diabetes diets, read DR. BERNSTEIN'S DIABETES BOOK. For a hormonal analysis, read THE AGE-FREE ZONE. For an evolutionary analysis of diet and heredity, read THE METABOLIC TYPING DIET. For further details on the danger of grain and sugar consumption, read THE NO-GRAIN DIET. THE MAKER'S DIET'S nutritional guidelines, insofar as they are present in the text, mimic Atkins in the beginning and then move toward The Zone. However, the author gives very short shrift to these guidelines or to true nutritional analysis. The majority of the book is a blend of half-baked biblical commentary and poorly-rendered theology, accented with pictures of an emaciated Rubin, in a seeming attempt to create shock value akin to looking at gory portraits of the crucifixion. As noted in another review, perhaps part of this shock is designed to spur the reader's purchases from Rubin's nutrition company. If true understanding of nutrition is important to you, do not rely on THE MAKER'S DIET to any extent. In fact, the book is not worth reading. It is noteworthy that the bookstores do not even keep "THE MAKER'S DIET" in the "Diet, Health, and Nutrition" sections of the store; they keep it in the "Religion" section... There are many superb texts on religion and profound treatises concerning biblical analysis. There are many books containing moving accounts of personal religious convictions and philosophies. However, Rubin's book fails both at dietary analysis and religious insight; moreover it smacks of the worst kind of commercialism, which takes advantage of an unhealthy person's search for help.