The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan That Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds Hardcover – 25 Feb. 2009

Would highly recommend this book to anyone, even meat eaters, the recipes are well thought out and idiot proof! Every recipe has gone right. We are on week 2 of being vegan. Something I have wanted to achieve for a long time, but found it difficult to cook vegan food with enough flavour, so alway went back to a vegetarian diet. However this book is truly amazing, I love the recipes and don't feel I am missing out on anything and feel great for it! More people need to own this book!

A wonderful book which should be read by all those seriously interested in improving their health and avoiding debilitating conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. It dispels the myths that meat,fish and dairy are 'good' for us and explains the virtues and life-saving principles of a plant-based diet and life-style. Packed with vital information and tasty recipes, this book is a must for all health conscious individuals.

I found this a really good book and made a lot of fantastic points for health, wellbeing and weight loss. I'm now reading his father's book which is also great.The only thing I would say would be helpful for a book that does sell outside the US is more input for other countries. He talks about certain kinds of breads for example that are ok per this book, but we don't have that brand here and it takes a little detective work to find out what type of bread that is, what it's ingredients are and what the UK equivalent might be.A simple solution would be a explanation of what style of food it is when mentioned to make it easier to find outside the US.Also the recipes were very much geared to Texas likes and didn't really take in to account a more international palette and it would have been nice if a healthy chef had consulted on that side of things to give some other ideas.However - that doesn't change the principals of the book that a plant-based eating style is incredibly healthy for the body and that eating junk and processed foods plus too much animal foods takes a toll on our health.Once you have the guiding principals it's not hard to look online (such as Pinterest) for inspiration for whole food plant based recipes, or raw vegan or however you choose to apply the information to your own diet.

I have read Rip's father's book 'How to prevent and reverse heart disease' and learned a great deal. It didn't engage me in the same way as 'Engine 2 Diet' which develops his Dad's core message of plant based eating and makes it fun. The recipes are tasty and easy. There are not too many fancy niche vegan ingredients and I have enjoyed experimenting with them. Rip has a likable style of writing and way of persuading the reader that switching to a plant based diet makes sense in so many ways. I hope this book becomes big in the UK!

Interesting book. Full of compelling evidence and easily understood. Recipes are amazing as I've tried a few. Would recommend to anyone looking to follow this way of eating.

A fantastic book. Unlike some commenters, I loved the references to Rip's fire station and found these added interest to the already interesting subject of a plant-strong diet for optimal health. Brilliant!

Having received my latest Q Ratio % and with a health service keen to pump you full of statins I was keen to research less drug fuelled paths and more preventative natural remedies.This was amongst a number of volumes purchased to drive up the motivation.In truth I was disappointed.It seems to struggle in its direction between populist easy answers and medical data led logic.It is, by nature of its author and focus audience, very “American” which though understandable (and an obvious focal point for the need to investigate alternatives to the costly drug biased American way to deal with an obesity/cancer/heart disease pandemic) is frustrating for a European reader to re-qualify facts and quoted data into relatable measurements and targets.The biggest deflation, and frustration, though is left for the ending and the recipe section.After reading the extolled virtues of a fully plant-based diet, allied to reduced/zero added fat and complementary exercise, as a lifetime health programme you’re are then confronted with conflicting recipes at the end.Breakfast Tacos extols the virtues of 1/2 tube of vegetarian breakfast sausage, then there’s an Omelet (sic) with egg replacer, branded pancake and muffin mixes, vegetarian hot dogs for lunch and a plethora of burger substitutes, sloppy joes & burritos with meat substitute.I’m sure all this stuff is valid for transitioning, much as the omnipresent Braggs Liquid Aminos could be, but when the primary message in the opening chapters appears channeled towards plants deliciousness and how it’s possible to thrive with all the essential nutrients, minerals and vitamins using just the infinite variety of plants, seeds, nuts, grains and legumes then it’s a bit of a “whoa there” moment when (admittedly a small minority) recipes are thrown up suggesting the opposite.I’ve soldiered through to the end but feel it will sit idly on our library shelves, in contrast to others like How Not to Die, as it merely supplemented the messaging of others rather than supplanted it (pun intended).I’m sure there are those that will be enthused and fired up by the message but for me it didn’t “grab”.I guess that’s the underlying reason why there’s so much choice (and my particular copy was mint) in the used section available on Amazon.

Apart from a good, humorous read, a way to live better and longer. Simple tasty recipes each with anecdotes to make the point fix.