Travel Healthy: A Road Warrior's Guide to Eating Healthy Paperback – December 10, 2013

This book starts with a made up term "nouri" which is okay since it is asking one to look for a certain set of qualities in what we consume. Okay, I can deal with that. An author can make up a word to get you to reframe your thinking and encourage a new perspective. And from there the book has some good suggestions for making decisions about what to consume and how to weigh the consequences. This was fairly sound advice and if that is all that folks get out of this book then I would give it three stars.Before reading the rest of my review, if you are looking for a new belief to get you beyond where you are currently, then this book could work for you. It does not have bad ideas, just ideas that are not based on scientific evidence. And in my long journey for optimal health and weight loss sometimes I do just need to change my beliefs for a little bit to be able to move on.Okay, so after the part about weighing the consequences to decide what to ingest, all the redeeming qualities in the book were outweighed by things that I cannot accept with my methodical and analytic science mind.The next topic of the book goes on to show that one can measure their antioxidant level. Yeah, not the antioxidants in food, but the antioxidants in one's own self.I was also a bit turned off by the fact that GMO food falls between fast food and processed food. Hmmm. While GMO food may not be sustainable, I'm not sure GMO foods are going to have negative health effects equivalent to fast food and processed food.In the appendix in section I. called "Beware of Slow Poisons: Top GMO Foods the second GMO food listed is aspartame. This is curious. I always believed that aspartame was an artificial sweetener, made in a laboratory, not a genetically modified organism that is grown.Also, there are supposedly superfoods that we should be consuming that are the best types of foods out there. I think that they are found in juice bars according to this author. I guess those might be healthier than fast food, but I'm pretty sure that juice bars remove a lot of the fiber in fruits and vegetables so that they really are very high in sugar and may have some vitamins and nutrients that are not found in cake or candy, but I would not consider this the healthiest food to consume.And then there was this couple of sentences about airport food. "Airport food is the biggest challenge. Not only is it mostly processed food that is available -- it is also x-rayed, which reduces any nutrient value of the food." Huh. I surely was not aware of this phenomenon.There are not any footnotes in this book or an official bibliography. There are documentaries and a lot of websites cited. I did not see any peer-reviewed articles cited.I have considered writing a travel and diet book. I am so relieved that I do not actually have to write the book based on any scientific research. That will make it so much easier!!

This book is far from being another diet-fad bible. It's a practical, fact-based and empathetic guide, written by an experienced business traveler for her traveling colleagues. In unpretentious no-frills ways, the author shows us that it doesn't take that much effort to eat well, feel well and do well when we travel. To do that, the book gives us cheat sheets that keep us from doing harm to ourselves as we are confronted by mass-produced food in a speed-and-efficiency focused travel world. It also gives us a language system that is easy, plain and fact-based - no marketing jargon here. And, most importantly, the book gives us useful tips on how to train our brains to make good choices: What do you need to ask yourself when you're starving as you step off the plane? How can you get quick but healthy comfort for your late-night appetite as you settle into your hotel room? When and how do I engage in nutritional compromise? It's so simple that it's almost trivial: In business, we are trained to put quality resources into our businesses to get quality products out - why would be do anything different with our bodies?

Natasha Leger is one who "walks her talk". She has been researching, experiencing, and living (!) THE HEALTHY LIFE for as long as I've known her (about a decade now).As a colorectal cancer survivor (and the Founder of a community of cancer survivors called COLONTOWN), I'm more than slightly interested in helping (me and) others learn how to nourish our bodies with the foods that can honestly make us feel better, fight off disease, be more productive in our work, and to pass along the good news to those who seek the better life.Leger has done this work for us!Read the book!erika hanson brownmayor: COLONTOWN[...]

Worse diet book going. Complete nonsense from start to finish, with no real practical benefit.

This book gives road warriors a much needed shorthand for managing eating on the road no matter the setting. That short hand is Nouri. Focus on Nouri and you won't go wrong. Seeking Nouri has always been the purpose of good food. It's great to see this concept brought up to date in the world of business travel. I think if enough of us demand Nouri food choices while on the road we can get those demands met and create better choice for all of us, more so than what is easily available now. Let's all ask for Nouri.

I certainly wouldn't recommend this book to any one wanting a healthy travel read.I didn't find a lot in it, it took just a few pages to master the general concept of what I found to be poor quality information, the standard of research is more opinion based rather than health recommended quality facts. From 'detox' to 'cleaning out your intestinal tract' to 'Nouri' alternatives, I found to be more faddy than helpful information. Tips such as 'look out for the juice bar at an airport' wasn't exactly a stunner.... And there were few pages of actual tips with any new ones I would actually follow.I'm not sure why one would brother to invent a new word for what is essentially in a nut shell a so called 'healthy' eating book....