Too religious for my taste.

I don't want anything from the bible myth telling me how to live any part of my life. ( sorry it wouldn't let me just say it wasn't for me)

The Essential Oils Diet features a sensible, evidence-based, two-phase program—first, the 30-day essential fast track, which helps you banish excess pounds quickly, followed by the essential lifestyle, a gentle, practical maintenance program you can follow for life. Featuring delicious, easy recipes, meal plans, and strategies to keep you on track, you’ll learn how to harness essential oils and bioactive foods to help your body reach the homeostasis necessary to help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight and abundant health.

The author has very strong opinions and some descriptions are not practical.

Eric Zielinski has again crafted an amazing resource for essential oil lovers everywhere. The Essential Oils Diet builds on the success and thorough research that has placed Zielinski as the essential oils expert. In the 2 part diet you will learn to lose weight and add essential foods and natural products to your diet to help heal your body from the inside.

This is the perfect combination of information I've been searching for to help me on my health journey all in one book! Recipes and information to help jump start and maintain health.

This is a book about christianity, lifestyle, and some strongly held opinions on foods and how quickly women should bounce back to pre-pregnancy weight postpartum. As a clinical aromatherapist I had some curiosity about why someone would write a book with such a title so I requested an advance review copy through NetGalley. Some of the recipes, like adding basil essential oil into compound butter, pass the test of food flavoring but other recipes encourage the use of essential oils in coffee, tea, et cetera. Despite studying aromatherapy the authors must have missed the chemistry lecture on water and oil not mixing. I routinely use aromatherapy in my practice to support clients with a variety of gastrointestinal challenges but struggled reading this book.

This book wasn't exactly what I thought it would be and seemed to touch more on different diets and nutritional, rather than on essential oils. The author seems to have some strong opinions on different types of diets and includes a list of many things you "aren't allowed to consume." Which some of which are of course healthy, like no meat or no dairy, however I feel like the information provided in the book was different from the synopsis. Overall I didn't find the book to be very helpful and it also seemed a bit unorganized to me. Some of the information the author presents, like no drinking coffee and even some lifestyle choices, like no cell phones, just didn't seem practical to me. I wish the author had touched more on essential oils and how they can be useful in health and well being.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for sending me an ARC of this book.

Very interesting book. I had already implemented some of the things this book talks about into my diet and there are others that I probably won't ever. I like that it uses essential oils but also makes it easy for anyone to incorporate into their life.

Have you ever picked up a book that you have high hopes for – you want to fall in love with – but, when you read it, it isn’t 100% of what you wanted it to be? That’s my experience with The Essential Oils Diet. There are a lot of things that I like about this book – but, truth be told, it isn’t everything I hoped it would be.

The problem begins with the title. Essential Oils are taking America by storm, and like many Americans, I am currently reading everything that I can get my hands on to learn more about how to use Essential Oils to improve my health. Based on the title, I expected essential oils to be the sole focus of the book, but it wasn’t. Instead, this was more of a Christian-based book that teaches you how to transform your health through several means, including removing toxins from your body and environment, incorporating bioactive foods and incorporating essential oils into your diet.

Now, this doesn’t mean that The Essential Oils Diet is a bad book – but it wasn’t 100% accurate in its description for me. In addition, while there is a lot of good information in the book, there are certain things in the book (such as the inclusion of stevia in the recipes) that just do not work for myself and my family.

So, check out the Table of Contents before you delve in and preview the book firsthand if possible.

The Essential Oils Diet is not going to be the right book for everyone – but hopefully, it will be the perfect book for you!

I rate this book 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC of this book from the publisher. My comments reflect my personal experience with this book!

What I love about THE ESSENTIAL OILS DIET is that it is not designed to make you thin, it is designed to make you healthy and in balance with your body's natural state. I read this in conjunction with LLEWELYN'S COMPLETE BOOK OF ESSENTIAL OILS and they complemented each other perfectly. As I age, and experience depleted hormones, more soreness after exercise and other mild maladies, my interest in and use of essential oils has greatly increased and these two books make it simple to find homeopathic solutions. Definitely worth owning!

I have the power of essential oils book by dr. Z, which I really enjoyed, so I was excited for this book. It came up a bit short for me. The are definitely some good tips but not as many ideas for incorporating essential oils as I expected. I received an arc copy of this book via netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

The writing and the way this book was set up just didn't flow the way it should have. I'm sorry I did not finish it, but I read most of it and there seemed to be gaps that never really did get filled in.

This was a lot different than I had anticipated. As a christian, I don't have a problem with the religious aspects. I, in fact, welcomed it. I just don't really know if I can see how this is a good guide to a strict diet. I think there is a lot of helpful information in here, but it's missing more of how this works as a mainstream diet.

This was a very enlightening book about the different uses of essential oils. I thought that this book was very informative and I will enjoy reading it again. Thank you for allowing me to read this book.

I found the recipes, meal plans and strategies in this book easy to follow. Something the average person can understand and work with. It really is a gentle, practical maintenance program you can follow. I haven't tried it out personally but I think it's something that I think I can work with. I love working with essential oils and could easily incorporate them into my diet.

“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”

I am a longtime reader of Dr. Eric Zelinski’s website and his previous book The Essential Oils Revolution, so I was very interested to read this new book, The Essential Oils Diet. As a certified nutritionist I am very well educated in healthy eating and living principles. I am always on the lookout for new books that will be of help to my nutrition clients and website readers. There are some worthwhile things in this new book.

I agree with most of the nutrition prinicples in this book and I also agree that essential oils can be a helpful adjunct to a whole foods diet. However, I do not agree that pasture-raised pork or wild caught shellfish are unhealthy foods. There are many excellent nutrients in shellfish, especially, and as long as you get them from a healthy source they can be part of a healthy diet. Animal foods, in general are not a problem in a healthy diet.

This book is actually mis-titled in my opinion. It is more of a healthy lifestyle and eating guide and not truly a diet book. I would have appreciated a little more guidance for those who want to lose significant amounts of weight. This book might not be very helpful to them in giving clear guidance. I have found that most of my clients who need to lose weight benefit from a lower carbohydrate diet. This book does not give good details on how to do a low carb diet and in fact, does not recommend it.

The Zelinskis teach from a Christian viewpoint, which is great for me because I am Christian. It might be offputting for some readers who are not aware of this, however. There seem to be a lot of additional resources available on line as links from the book, but these were not yet available when I read the book, so I can’t comment on their usefulness. The recipes are very good however.

I recommend this book for someone who want to adopt a healthier lifestyle and may have a small amount of weight to lose. For someone with serious health issues or a large amount of weight to lose, this book may not give you everything you need.

I received a complimentary advance reader copy from #netgalley.

As a fan of Dr. Z’S book on essential oils, I was hoping to find a similar book full of well-researched nutritional and diet information coupled with valuable anecdotal material.

Alas, this book is so heavy in biblical references that after reading the first few chapters, I could not stomach it any longer. This is not a book for the mainstream EO enthusiast. I can not recommend it.

I struggled giving this book any stars. Not really a diet book. It seemed to be more of a religious book.