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Summary: How You Can Give Up a Fad Diet and Get Healthy
Review: Hey no kidding! An editorial review from a chiropractor? Makes sense, since no respectable dietician would recommend this fad-diet concoction. Yes, you will lose weight-mostly water weight-and don't even think about going off the diet once you've started to lose weight!!! You'll watch those pounds come back twice as fast! The best is yet to come! Bet you can't wait for the halitosis, fatigue, constipation, mood swings, light-headedness and trouble focusing-not to mention an increase in risk of kidney disease and heart disease due to the increase in keytone and cholesterol production. All this while you starve your meat filled cadaver of essential fiber, antioxidants, and phytochemicals!!!! The simple reality is this: the only truly effective way to lose weight and stay healthy is to eat a WELL-BALANCED diet-rich mainly in fruits vegetables, and yes carbohydrates. No doubt, protien is also important, but you don't need it as your main staple-much less from fatty, grease ladden sources such as hamburgers and 20oz steaks. And don't forget the most important tid-bit- Exercise regularly-nobody likes to hear that one, but it really is the only way to keep yourself in shape and feeling fit and trim for the long term. Don't fall prey to scams like this, you'll end up losing much more than that extra 10 pounds. Don't believe me? Ask a reputable dietician or consult a health information website like WebMD or the AMA. You'll see that most of the studies done to support diets like this are sketchy at best. Happy eating!
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Summary: EXCELLENT DIET INFO!
Review: I treasure my autograhed copy of this book. The author, Dana C. is enthusiastic and Very knowledeable about this carbo diet. She has tested every theory and recipe so you don't have to. Trust her! I have lost 70 pounds and am keeping it off for three years using this book and the recipe book. Good luck. Thank you Dana!!!
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Summary: Low carbs may be dangerous to your health
Review: Please understand going on low carbs may be dangerous to your health.Being on any diet without a doctors permission is dangerous period.If on a low carb diet too long you may and will damage your kidneys,liver and your breath smells badly.Is it worth damaging your organs? Then after your on the diet for awhile then go off you get right back to being fat again.Eating right is the only way.Mary Ann C. Golden
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Summary: Thank you Dana!
Review: I too have read all the others. Dana's book is the first one that explains it to me like one friend to another. Not a doctor to a patient. If you are even a bit interested - I would get this book. It will be worth your money.
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Summary: One of the best low carb books on the market!
Review: Great book! What it lacks in editing, it makes up in really wonderful info.
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Summary: So grateful for this book!
Review: Dana is not a doctor, a dietician, or fitness *guru*. (THANK YOU GOD!) She's "just" someone who was like you and me and 75% of the rest of the people we see everyday: addicted to carbo's, tired, fat, and miserable. I started my low carbing a few days before beginning this book and it's so informative, that I almost wish I had waited to start. Almost but not quite, because I wouldn't take back the weight I'd already lost for anything in this world. I love this book! It gives a thorough review of each of the well known, popular low carb/high protein diets that you've heard about, as well as referencing the low carb body of works over the last 150+ years - to show you that this healthy lifestyle is certainly no passing fad. It concisely spells out how to analyze all of these programs to customize a low carb solution that works best for y-o-u. This is how to get and stay healthy. In just a few short weeks, I look and feel(!!!) so much better than I have in a long, long time. Potatoes, rice, and grains can kiss my shrinking body goodbye forever. No matter what I tried to restrict (read low fat hell), I was always hungry, and getting fatter and fatter still. I thought that there was no hope, and that I'd be fat forever. I'm so glad that I know better now. Thanks again, Dana, for the wonderful book! Here are three tips that I would like to include from personal experience: First, I'm very glad Dana recommended using Stevia instead of one of the nasty tasting chemical sugar substitutes. We've used Stevia for four years, and now white table sugar tastes really odd to us. But, for staying low carb, be aware and cautious when buying Stevia. 95% of retail brands come with it boxed as a teeny,tiny amount of Stevia suspended in a large pile of maltodexterin - a high carbo item if ever there was one. Just look for 100% pure Stevia. It's available all over the Net. Second, many people who begin low carb eating express concern about the fatty meats that are the end product of factory "farming"'s grain (usually corn - again, high carb!) fed animals. Dana references this as Barry Sear's The Zone writings on sensitivity to AA (arichidonic acid). He didn't have an answer either. A solution for most people is at hand. Simply research and try switching over to grass fed (aka pastured, grazed) meats. You'll be pleasantly surprised to find that they contain lots of Omega 3's and are superior in many other ways to grain fed factory meat. And lastly, like Dana, I hated exercise and did lots with no visible results. Then I discovered the slow burn fitness movement. There are two books currently just out, and available on Amazon, about slow burn fitness: One by the Drs. Eades and Fred Hahn, and the other by Adam Zickerman. (The idea's not entirely new, but the older books touching on the subject are long ago out of print). No more jogging for miles, or doing aerobics for hours is necessary. Unless you're just crazy about those activities and love to do them for fun so much you just want to anyway, you can stop. With slow burn fitness, you do very slow, deliberate movements just past the point of muscle fatigue, with barbells (or heavy weights if you're a man and/or already in decent shape) for twenty to thirty minutes once or twice a week and that's it. Your muscles work so hard in that twenty to thirty minutes, that you NEED to rest for four to ten days between sessions. You can see and feel appreciable results within two weeks, and dramatic improvements within a couple of months. Look up the books if you want to know more.
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Summary: This may be the best on low-carb eating
Review: I have read them all! I have read Atkins, Protein Power, Carbohydrate Addicts, and Sugar Busters. This may be the best one of all. Dana writes intelligently but in a friendly style. I found it to be very informative and inspiring. I thought her comparison of the various diets very helpful and really appreciated the section on the benefits of ketosis. I think if you read this along with Life Without Bread you will have pretty well covered the subject of why low-carbohydrate eating is definitely the best choice for weight management and over all health. Dana sounds like the kind of person I would like to get to know personally. I highly recommend this book! Good luck and "hold the toast".
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Summary: There is Hope
Review: Dana gives hope to those of us who have tried just about EVERY diet! I have bought many of the "locarb" diet books and hers is by far the best. It's easy to read, VERY informative, and motivating. Thanks Dana!
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Summary: An Interesting Book
Review: This is an interesting combination or personal experience and review of low carbohydrate diets in the popular press. It gets a little wordy in places but is generally quite readable. I would like to have seen a little more science in it. As an obesity specialist, I have found it useful and have recommended it to selected patients.
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Summary: Easy to follow, entertaining to read.
Review: This diet may not be for everyone, but I feel like a million bucks on it. This food-o-phile has thoroughly researched many low carb diets and presents the pros and cons of many. She also presents in layman's terms simple principles of nutrition and anatomy. I found her book to be very inspirational and I can't wait to get her cookbook. Carb addicts - there is hope, and this book can help show you the way.
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