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 Blood Sugar Blues:
Overcoming the Hidden
Dangers of Insulin Resistance
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By Miryam
Ehrlich Williamson, R. Paul St. Amand M.D.
Williamson (who wrote The Fibromyalgia Relief Book), offers an overview
of various medical conditions diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol related
to insulin resistance, a phenomenon caused by diet whereby people become immune
to their own insulin, causing their blood sugar levels to fluctuate. While
diabetics are usually aware of their dietary restrictions, Williamson believes
that millions of other people are suffering, sometimes needlessly, because they
eat the wrong foods, especially carbohydrates.
With anecdotal and scientific
evidence, she advocates a low carbohydrate/high protein diet for everyone. Much
of the book focuses on several medical conditions (rather than on one sensationalized
condition like "Syndrome X") and various treatments. Williamson reviews several
popular diets, offering pros and cons, but lets readers decide which is for them.
In clean, engaging prose, Williamson ably explains complicated jargon.
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The Secret to Low Carb Success!
How to Get the Most
Out of Your Low Carbohydrate Diet
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By Laura
Richard
The author does a great job of introducing low-carb dieting in all its different
forms. She begins by listing the points that all the low-carb book authors agree
upon. Then she provides encapsulated summaries of the most popular low-carb diet
plans, defining the focus of each and highlighting what people liked most about
each plan and what they liked least.
This is not a low-carb diet book in and of itself; it simply gives hints on how to
make whatever diet you have chosen to follow work better for you. And unlike most
of the diet book authors this author lays it out straight as to what the dieter
can expect, including the negative aspects of stalls and plateaus.
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Dr. Atkins' New Diet
Revolution Revised and Improved: 12/01
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By Dr. Robert C.
Atkins
Revised December 2001 with great new information, products and concepts, you
won't want to miss Dr. A's latest! Contrary to the rather "uninformed" people
that reviewed the book at Amazon to "save" you (they don't know what they're
talking about...), this latest edition is a must-have for any serious
low carber. Even if you primarily follow another LC plan, this book is
filled with useful info!
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Dr. Atkins' New Diet
Revolution (UPDATED 1999)
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By Dr. Robert C.
Atkins
A revolutionary formula for changing metabolism offers weight loss without counting
calories or feeling hungry as the body automatically adjusts to a new way of
burning fat, as well as a maintenance diet that insures slimness for life.
This is the newly updated version of his famous book and includes 3 new chapters
and tons of updated info.
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Life Without Bread:
How a
Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life |
By Wolfgang
Lutz, MD
This is the book I personally recommend more than any other. In my opinion, it belongs
in the hands of anyone on -- or considering -- a low carbohydrate diet.
Life Without Bread accomplishes a number of important things. First, it collects a body
of evidence for the low-carb way of eating that is carefully thought out, and based on
sound research and extensive clinical experience. Second, it debunks the pervasive
cholesterol neurosis that has made much of the developed world phobic about fats. This is
very important, since there are still relatively few scientists willing to put their
reputations on the line in opposition to the cholesterol theory of heart disease. Allan
and Lutz join their ranks. Third, it offers good arguments for the positive virtues of
saturated animal fats, perhaps the most maligned dietary suspects of the past 100
years. Finally, they refute the many lame and ill-informed criticisms of low-carb
diets that one encounters again and again in the popular (and, unfortunately,
sometimes also in the scientific) literature -- such as the claim that these diets
harm the kidneys or cause muscle wasting.
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Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet
Revolution
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By Dr. Robert C.
Atkins
Dump the food pyramid that the American Dietetics Association, the American Academy
of Pediatrics, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Cancer Society
all implore you to follow for the sake of your health. Free radicals, insulin resistance,
sugar--these are the reasons we age, get sick, and get fat, insists Atkins, not
dietary fat. Eggs are good for you. The cholesterol you eat does not affect the
cholesterol in your blood, he says. He scoffs at "the unholy alliance among the
American Heart Association, American Medical Association, American Diabetes
Association, and U.S. government in its many manifestations (FDA, Department of
Agriculture, NIH, et al.)."
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Permanent Results Without Permanent
Dieting:
The Curves For Women
Weight Loss Method |
By Dr. Gary Heavin and
Jane Manley
The book presents in a concise and interesting format the "Curves" philosophy of losing weight and,
more importantly, keeping it off permanently. It differs from most "diet books" in that it offers a
realistic approach to dieting and, unlike most diet programs; it presents the reader with either a low
carbohydrate or a low calorie option. In addition, Mr. Heavin's weight loss method is proven safe,
effective, and nutritionally sound.
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Dr. Atkins' New Diet
Revolution
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By Dr. Robert C.
Atkins
Designed to catapult your body into a state of fat meltdown, Dr. Atkins's diet
has taken America by storm. It targets insulin, the hormone that regulates blood
sugar levels. The bodies of most overeaters are continually in a state of
hyperinsulinism; their bodies are so adept at releasing insulin to help convert
excess carbohydrates to fat that there's always too much of the hormone circulating
through the body. This puts the body into a bind; it always wants to store fat. Even
when people with hyperinsulinism try to lose weight--especially when they cut
fat but increase carbohydrate consumption--their efforts will fail. This is
why Dr. Atkins refers to insulin as "the fat-producing hormone."
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Dr Atkins' Vita-Nutrient
Solution
Nature's Answer to
Drugs |
By Dr. Robert C.
Atkins
Long a champion of complementary medicine and nutritional therapy, Dr. Robert
Atkins, author of the #1 best-seller Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, presents
the scientific basis for the use of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, and
hormones in the treatment and prevention of many of the chronic illnesses that
plague us today. These vita-nutrients harness the body's ability to heal itself,
rather than resorting to conventional drugs and invasive procedures, and address
the true causes of disease instead of temporarily alleviating symptoms, promoting
longer-lasting and more effective healing.
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Living Low-Carb
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By Fran
McCullough
Everything food-loving dieters need to know to achieve
lasting success, including strategies for controlling binges and
cravings, dealing with sudden weight gains, and secret metabolic weapons.
If you loved Fran McCullough's fabulous cookbook, this is a must-have!
Includes over 175 new recipes as well!
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Leaf Your Weight
Behind
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By Nancy Barnes and
Marina Volynets
Discover how 2 opposite cultures, Russian and American, miraculously came together
to create a natural and healthy approach to losing weight. "Leaf Your Weight Behind"
is a "normal protein" / low carbohydrate diet that is bursting with fresh fruits
and vegetables. Fiber is definitely not a problem on this plan, neither is protein
overload. This lifestyle of healthy eating is what Americans need.
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How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost
40 Pounds!
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By Dana
Carpender
Subtitled "Everybody's Guide to Low Carbohydrate Dieting", How I Gave Up My
Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! is a breezy, chatty,non-technical, fun-to-read
explanation of low carbohydrate dieting -- why it works, the surprising health
benefits, and most importantly, how to "do" the diet. Or, rather, diets,since the
book details three very different main approaches to controlling carbohydrates.
Funny, easy to read, and hard to put down. Dana talks like one of us - because
she is.
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The Smart Guide to the Low-Carb Anti-Aging
Diet
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By John Morgenthaler and
Mia Simms
Reflecting the medical breakthrough in understanding the role of lower insulin
levels in general good health, The Low-Carb Anti-Aging Diet encourages fat loss,
increases energy, enhances mental clarity, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol,
and slows aging. The authors show how this plan works through a combination of diet,
exercise, and nutritional supplements.
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NeanderThin:
A Caveman's Guide to
Nutrition |
By Raymond V.
Audette
Not just another weight-loss diet guide, NeanderThin presents a rational case for how
humankind's digestive genetics have not caught up with the radical changes in diet since
the start of the Neolithic era (10-20 thousand years ago). A clear, well-stated argument is
made for elimination of modern foods that need to be cooked or processed to be edible,
or which couldn't be obtained by a hunter-gatherer on the savanna, 'naked with only a
sharp stick.' Well done, and totally workable recommendations without demanding too
much in the way of dietary sacrifice or lifestyle change.
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NeanderThin:
Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve
a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body
MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
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By Raymond V.
Audette
See text above for full description.
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The Crazy Makers
How the Food Industry
Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children |
By Carol
Simontacchi
The Crazy Makers is an indictment of American food processors and what they are
serving the nation. Are they distributing food, or manufacturing products that
redefine what we think food to be? How far afield of true food has the search
for profit and the need to meet consumer trends led food manufacturers?
Nutritionist Carol Simontacchi shows how the pseudo-foods being promoted today--from
infant formulas to health-conscious prepackaged meals--are, in fact, physically eroding our
brains. While it has been proven that food choices contribute to degenerative diseases like
cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, Simontacchi maintains that our mental condition
is also at risk.
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| Healthy Nuts
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By Gene
Spiller, Ph.D.
This guide to the helpful benefits of nuts subtitles itself "Discovering the
power of nature's nutritional bounty."
The author tells about the healthy benefits of eating "all natural" nuts as a part of
everyone's diet. He details how tree nuts and peanuts are a great and provide a
satisfying snack and compliment food--that will help you lose weight. You'll learn
the fat in nuts is healthy... And that the "low fat/fat free" free diets make
you eat twice as much to get half the satisfaction. Great recipes and ideas!
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Low Carb Diets:
Easy & Healthy Weight Loss Programs That Really
Work! |
By Susan
Somerset Webb
This book is for everyone who wants to learn why low carb diets actually work. And,
why an ever-increasing number of health care professionals consider them healthier
than low-fat diets. In easy-to-understand language, Low Carb Diets briefly
explains the scientific principles underlying these popular diet plans. Author
Susan Somerset Webb begins by providing a short synopsis of how America got itself
entrenched in the low-fat mentality.
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The Oil Protein Diet Cookbook:
Use of Oils in
Cooking |
By Dr. Johanna
Budwig
Contemporary nutritional science owes a great deal to Dr. Budwig's early discoveries on
Fat Metabolism and Healing. This brilliant scientific mind has put together a wonderfully
imaginative "cookbook" - a practical guide for the use of oils in daily meal preparation.
You can discover over 500 delicious meal possibilities using the healing powers of Flax
Oil while learning about "Good" fats and "Bad" fats - and the proper use of fats in
daily cooking - all from a high protein diet slant. A practical guide written by
seven-time nobel prize nominee.
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Your Body's Many Cries for
Water
You Are Not
Sick; You Are Thirsty! |
By F.
Batmanghelidj, M.D.
The average American is woefully uninformed about water. Most people think they
drink enough water, but they don't. The body
possesses many different thirst signals. A dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of your
body's water needs. This book shows how to recognize the various thirst signals, and
helps you learn to understand when your body is calling for water. In this way, you
can prevent, treat and cure a variety of conditions of ill health, at no cost, with
nature's miracle medicine: water. The book explains how much water one needs to drink
a day to stay healthy, and why tea, coffee, and sodas are not good substitutes for
water.
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The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy Heart
Program
Break Your
Carbo-Insulin Connection to Heart Disease |
By Drs. Rachael F. and
Richard F. Heller and Dr. Frederic J. Vagnini
The aim of this program is to "help balance insulin levels and reduce the insulin
resistance that leads to carbohydrate cravings, easy weight gain, high blood
pressure, abnormal blood fats, adult-onset diabetes, and heart disease." The
program involves three basic steps: (1) reducing the high-carbohydrate foods that
you eat and increasing their quality; (2) choosing supplements that balance insulin
levels; and (3) choosing insulin-regulating physical activities. The writing is clear
and inviting. The authors explain medical concepts such as Insulin Resistance Syndrome
simply and clearly. They also narrate their own health and weight-loss struggles,
adding a personal touch. About 60 recipes are included.
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Carbohydrate-Addicted Kids:
Help Your Child or Teen Break Free of
Junk Food & Sugar Cravings-For Life! |
By Drs. Rachael F. and
Richard F. Heller
Does your child crave cookies, ice cream, candy, and sodas? He or she may be suffering
from carbohydrate addiction: "a compelling hunger, craving or desire for
carbohydrate-rich foods; an escalating, recurring need or drive for starches, snack
foods, junk food, sweets." In Carbohydrate Addicted Kids, Richard and Rachael Heller,
authors of The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, have developed a program specifically for
children and teens to free them from their dependence on carbohydrates and improve
their attitude, weight, learning, and self-esteem.
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The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy For Life
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By Drs. Rachael F. and
Richard F. Heller
From the authors of the bestseller The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet--a revolutionary
breakthrough in medical science and a sure-fire program for avoiding and reversing
diseases. Drs. Richard and Rachel Heller inspire and motivate as they reveal an
astonishingly easy three-step plan for putting into practice this important
breakthrough in medical knowledge.
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The Carbohydrate Addict's
Diet
The Lifelong Solution to
Yo-Yo Dieting |
By Drs. Rachael F. and
Richard F. Heller
If you've been a yo-yo dieter for years or if you can eat a pound of pasta at one sitting,
this book may very well be an eye opener. In simple--but never
condescending--language, it explains the roots of carbohydrate cravings and teaches you
how to normalize your insulin levels to prevent future food binges. Regulated insulin
levels in turn help to temper serotonin levels, so food cravings and mood swings are
prevented. The authors, both research scientists (one a health psychologist, the other
a pathologist), have lost and kept off a total of 200 pounds between them. They've based
this book on nearly a decade's worth of research, during which they've helped nearly 80
percent of their patients lose weight and keep it off for at least a year.
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The Carbohydrate Addict's
Lifespan Program
Plan for Becoming Slim, Fit & Healthy in Your 40s, 50s, 60s &
Beyond |
By Drs. Rachael F. and
Richard F. Heller
"If you are carbohydrate addicted, this book will give you the information you need to
literally eliminate your cravings for starches, snack foods, or sweets and get control
over your eating and your life--at any age, through all the decades to come--and without
sacrifice. You will be able to lose weight and greatly decrease your risk for virtually
all of [America's] top killer diseases. You will get the guidance you need to make the
lifestyle change you have been waiting [for] for so long. And, in addition, you will
gain the courage and conviction that your hunger, cravings, and weight problems are not
your fault, and as the pounds fade, so will your guilt and self-blame."
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The Carbohydrate Addict's
Program for Success
Taking Charge of Your
Life and Your Weight (Companion
Workbook) |
By Drs. Rachael F. and
Richard F. Heller
As the authors of the phenomenally successful Carbohydrate Addict's Diet know,
losing weight is hard work. Even harder, however, is keeping the weight off -- sticking
to the new patterns of eating necessary for success. Now Drs. Heller and Heller provide
the additional support that every carbohydrate addict needs to succeed.
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Your Fat Can Make You Thin:
The Revolutionary Weight Loss Program
That Turns Your Body into a Fat-Burning Machine |
By Calvin Ezrin,
Kristen L. Caron, and Robert E. Kowalski
Dr. Calvin Ezrin, author of The Type II Diabetes Diet Book does it again.
He continues the fight to cure diabetes with a sensible low-carbohydrate nutrition
approach. Dr. Ezrin and his colleagues explain the physiologic process by which
reducing carbohydrates frees your body to burn its own fat reserves, and ultimately
achieve permanent weight loss...presents a program based on dietary balance.
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Protein Power:
The High-Protein/Low
Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight,
Feel Fit, and Boost Your
Health-in Just Weeks! |
By Drs. Michael R. Eades
and Mary Dan Eades
Based on cutting-edge research, this revolutionary, medically sound, deliciously
satisfying plan has already helped thousands of patients lose weight and achieve
other lifesaving health benefits, including lower cholesterol and blood pressure
readings and an improvement or reversal of common disorders such as heart disease,
adult-onset diabetes, and gout. Developed by Doctors Michael and Mary Dan Eades,
the simple regimen calls for a new way of eating: a protein-rich, moderate-fat,
low-carbohydrate diet that will have you feeling better and more energetic within
a week, and correct blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol
within three weeks.
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Protein Power Lifeplan:
A New Comprehensive
Blueprint for Optimal Health |
By Drs. Michael R. Eades
and Mary Dan Eades
A New York Times bestseller for over a year, Protein Power sparked provocative
debate with its assertion that our mainly carbohydrate-based diet-and not one
rich in protein-is responsible for rampant obesity and heart disease among
Americans. Now the authors of this exciting guide expand both their theory and their
nutritional program, and show how The Protein Power Lifeplan can combat diabetes,
high blood pressure, auto-immune disorder, and more. Whether you're a Protein Power
veteran looking to fine-tune your dietary lifestyle or increase your success, or a
newcomer to the plan, astonishing health benefits can be yours with... The Protein
Power Lifeplan ..
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 Protein Power Lifeplan (audio
cassette):
A New Comprehensive
Blueprint for Optimal Health |
By Drs. Michael R. Eades
and Mary Dan Eades
See description above.
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The Type 2 Diabetes Diet Book: The Insulin
Control Diet
Your Fat Can Make
You Thin |
By Robert E. Kowalski and
Calvin Ezrin, MD.
Proven to be remarkably effective for both Type II diabetics and nondiabetic
people with chronic weight problems, the Insulin Control Diet -- based on
low-carbohydrate and low-caloric intake -- allows patients to decrease insulin
production and convert stored fat into fuel. In this new edition, Dr. Calvin
Ezrin provides updated ADA recommendations and complete section of revised recipes
and meal plans.
Previously entitled The Endocrine Control Diet, this new edition provides
updated ADA recommendations and a complete section of revised recipes...shows
how both diabetics and nondiabetics can limit insulin production to lose weight.
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Beat Diabetes!
How I Overcame Diabetes and
You Can Too! |
By Margaret
Blackstone
This book is one woman's story of beating a disease that will affect one in
ten Americans by the year 2000. Following the program found in this book -
a low carbohydrate, yet flavorful and exciting diet - may help readers prevent
the consequences of diabetes and prevent the onset for those at risk.
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GO-Diet: The Goldberg-O'Mara Diet
Plan
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By Jack Goldberg and
Karen O'Mara
Over 54% of the adult U.S. population are overweight or obese. The GO-Diet is a high
monounsaturated fat, very low carbohydrate, normal protein diet
plan which ensures safe weight loss without calorie restriction or muscle wasting
while promoting heart healthy foods. The book is based on the research program
conducted at a major Chicago community hospital to test its efficacy. It is divided
into 10 chapters giving the reader the background knowledge to understand why other
diet programs fail, details about the diet, shopping and cooking guidelines and a
variety of tasty recipes to get the reader started on a new way of life.
The chapters on the scientific basis of the diet examine why the current conventional
dietary advice advocating low fat and high carbohydrate diets are doomed to failure.
Indeed, they may be the cause of our current epidemic of overweight and obesity
because they do not address the underlying hyperinsulinemia, which may central to
the development of obesity.
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Life on the Go: The Key to Weight Loss and Healthy
Eating
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By Jack Goldberg and
Karen O'Mara
The companion audio tape which supplements the GO-Diet book and gives you many practical
hints to get GO-ing and stay on track.
Dr. Jack Goldberg is a practicing Ph.D. clinical biochemist and research scientist.
His interests are primarily in nutrition and especially cholesterol metabolism. He
invented and patented the first commercial diagnostic kit for HDL cholesterol. Dr.
Karen O'Mara is a specialist in intensive care medicine. As a teacher and intensivist
she deals with the disastrous end product of unhealthy eating on a daily basis. Author
of many scientific articles, she brings special insights to the GO-Diet.
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Eat Fat, Be Healthy:
Understanding the Heartstopper Gene and When
a Low-Fat Diet Can Kill You |
By Matthew
J. Bayan
At forty-five, Matthew J. Bayan appeared to be in robust health. He
exercised daily, ate a low-fat diet, never smoked, and avoided excess stress. But
in the early hours of May 9, 1996, he was jolted awake by a massive heart attack.
Rushed to a nearby hospital emergency room, Bayan was close to death; in fact, he
did die - his heart was restarted by doctors more than six dozen times.
As he recovered, Bayan received the usual treatment for heart patients, which
included a very low fat diet - one that Bayan followed faithfully. But to Bayan's
and his doctors' growing concern, his bad-cholesterol and triglyceride levels
worsened on the very low fat diet. Something was clearly wrong...
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Lights Out:
Sleep, Sugar, and Survival |
By T. S.
Wiley and Bent Formby
With research gleaned from the National Institutes of Health, T.S. Wiley and
Bent Formby deliver staggering findings: Americans really are sick from being
tired. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression are rising in our
population. We're literally dying for a good night's sleep. Our lifestyle wasn't
always this way. It began with the invention of the lightbulb.
The lightbulb put us out of sync with nature. Way back when, people spent the
summer sleeping less and eating heavily in preparation for winter because
light triggers the hunger for carbohydrates. Now, with light available 24
hours a day, we gulp down carbohydrates all year long.
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Overcoming Syndrome X:
The Silent Killer That Can Give You a Heart
Attack |
By Gerald
Reaven, M.D.
As Dr. Gerald Reaven, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, explains, insulin
resistance is part of Syndrome X, a once-mysterious killer of millions. Someone with
Syndrome X has very high insulin levels, along with high blood fats and unusually small
and dense particles of LDL (low-density lipoprotein)--the dangerous stuff. Diets high
in carbohydrates or protein--like the American Heart Association and Zone diets--actually
lead to more insulin production - starting a chain reaction in people with
Syndrome X that leads to damaged arteries and eventually to heart attacks.
The solutions to the problem start with a low-carbohydrate diet that's high in
unsaturated fats. The payoff? A longer, healthier life. And the superiority that
comes with actually knowing what "insulin resistance" means.
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Syndrome X:
The Complete Program to Prevent and Reverse This New
Epidemic |
By Jack Challem,
Burt Berkson, M.D. & Melissa Diane Smith
The mysterious-sounding "Syndrome X" refers to a group of health problems
including insulin resistance ("the inability to properly deal with
dietary carbohydrates such as sugars"), plus at least one additional problem,
such as abnormal blood fats (elevated cholesterol or triglycerides), overweight,
and/or high blood pressure. Insulin resistance is "a diet-caused hormonal logjam that
interferes with your body's ability to efficiently burn the food you eat."
Syndrome X takes seemingly unrelated symptoms and puts them together like the pieces
of a puzzle to reveal a silent and devastating epidemic. The mystery has finally been
solved and practical effective solutions provided.
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Thin for Good:
The One Low-Carb Diet That Will Finally Work
for You |
By Fred
Pescatore, M.D.
Dr. Pescatore was Associate Medical Director of the world-renowned
Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine for five years before founding the
prestigious Centers for Integrative and Complementary Medicine, based in New
York and Dallas.
Thin For Good offers an innovative approach to losing weight and keeping it off
safely and effectively. Dr. Pescatore not only provides excellent information
on what to eat -- he also sheds insight on the emotional aspects of eating which,
if not understood, can sabotage even the best weight-loss efforts.
The first low-carb diet to include
a revolutionary mind-body plan including affirmations, self-evaluations,
exercises, and an inspirational discussion of dieters' emotions and cravings.
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Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim
Fat
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By H. Leighton Steward,
Morrison C. Bethea, Sam S. Andrews, Ralph O. Brennan and Luis A. Balart
Sugar Busters! was first independently published in New Orleans and sold an amazing
100,000 copies by word of mouth. Its advice may be hard to swallow for most Americans,
as it advocates squelching your sweet tooth in order to lose weight. Those who follow
the diet, however, swear by it, and no wonder: excess sugar consumption has been linked
to depression, impaired immune function, and, of course, weight gain, as the body can
almost effortlessly convert sugar to fat. Because sugar comes in so many different
forms and hides out in unexpected places (carrots, beets, and white bread, among
others) the authors list what foods are safe and which ones should be avoided and
include a two-week menu plan for getting started.
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Sugar Bust for Life: With the Brennans
Part II
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By Ellen C. Brennan,
and Theodore M. Brennan
Both companion guide and a cookbook based on the diet principles found in
Sugar Busters! . Ellen C. Brennan and Theodore Brennan of the
world famous "Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans" and co-authors
of the best selling cookbook Sugar Bust for Life with the Brennans
Part I have included over 300 new recipes here, easy one-dish
meals, an updated Shoppers Brand Name Guide, new menus and an extensive
wine list, plus weight loss and good health "tips for success."
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The Ketogenic
Diet
A Complete Guide for the Dieter
and Practitioner |
By Lyle
McDonald
'The Ketogenic Diet' is a complete resource for anyone interested in low-carbohydrate
diets (such as Atkins, Protein Power, etc.) It looks objectively at the physiology
behind such diets, including potential negative effects, and gives specific recommendations
on how to optimize such a diet assuming an individual has chosen to do one. Exercise is
discussed in great detail, including background physiology, the effects of exercise on
fat loss, exercise guidelines and sample workouts. A great deal of basic physiology
information is included so that readers without a technical background will be able
to understand the topics discussed.
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Diet
Evolution
Eat Fat and Get
Fit! |
By Charles J.
Hunt
Charles Hunt's Diet Evolution is admirable in that it takes a simple, friendly approach
to a topic which has often inspired great flights of technical jargon. Instead of
complicating the matter unnecessarily, Hunt cuts to the chase, and tells you how to
do a low carb diet -- which is, after all, what most folks want to know about the
subject. This book will teach you more in one short reading about what a truly natural
human diet looks like than anything in the thousands of gimmicky, dogma-ridden books
about low-fat high-carbohydrate diets ever will.
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| Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight
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By Suzanne
Somers
Years ago, Suzanne Somers lost the chance to appear on a hit television series because
she was "too chunky." That missed opportunity started her on a "diet roller coaster,"
trying all kinds of diets. Now Somers believes that diets and deprivation do not help
people lose weight in the long-term. In Eat Great, Lose Weight, she explains the
food-combining plan she calls "Somersizing": eliminate "funky foods" such as
sugar ("my body's greatest enemy") and white flour; eat fruits alone on an empty
stomach; eat proteins and fats with vegetables and without carbohydrates; eat
carbohydrates with vegetables and without fat.
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| Suzanne Somers' Get Skinny on Fabulous
Food
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By Suzanne
Somers
In the second volume of the series (the first being Eat Great, Lose Weight), the
lessons on Somersizing continue, along with the testimonials. Essentially, it calls
for a very specific combination of foods--fruit alone, protein and vegetables
together--as well as the elimination of sugars and alcohols. Much of the text is
taken up with justification; there's a comparison with other diets, with various
medical facts and research, and even with ingredients in alternative foodstuffs.
Tips for dining out and for menus complete the instruction--and lead into more
than 130 recipes, designated either for losing (level one) or for maintaining
(level two) weight.
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The Schwarzbein
Principle:
The Truth About Losing
Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger |
By Dr. Diana
Schwarzbein
Books on weight loss and nutrition are often either impenetrable or sappy, loaded
with science that confuses the reader or filled with platitudes. This book is
informative, highly intelligent and engrossing. You move through it quickly
because the stories and principles are well developed and easy to read.
The latest evolution in low-carbohydrate health and fitness, the unique,
proven "Schwarzbein Principle"
will revolutionize the way millions of people look at eating, losing weight, and
maintaining optimal health.
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| Starch
Madness |
By Richard L.
Heinrich
Starch Madness offers healthy eating guidelines that really work! By eating enough
protein and choosing foods that balance our blood sugar, we can eliminate the urge
to overeat. Also, by limiting the amount of sugar and certain carbohydrates in our
diets we can significantly reduce heart disease, high blood pressure, and many other
serious illnesses. Water is another element our modern bodies lack. Over-the-counter
drugs are being used for many conditions that can be alleviated by drinking more
water.
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| Sugar
Blues |
By William
Dufty
The classic, best-selling exposé on the dangers of sugar reveals how this
commonly ingested ingredient in countless foods is highly addictive and causes
a host of medical problems from depression to coronary thrombosis.
This book shows that numerous ills of refined sugar (sucrose). It is an extremely
important book because it represents the first step in a realization that sucrose
is much worse for you than the billion-dollar sugar industry wants you to believe.
There are very important statistics and valid points hidden among this text.
In Sugar Blues, William Dufty doesn't just lift the historical mask on sugar, he
pulverizes it.
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| Lick the Sugar
Habit |
By Nancy
Appleton
There's the old saying that sugar is poison. After reading Lick the Sugar Habit, you'll
be convinced of that. Americans each consume more than 150 pounds of sugar and related
sweeteners each year. It's pretty easy for it to add up when you consider that there
are 17 teaspoons of sugar in a single can of Coke. Author Nancy Appleton delineates
how this sugar overconsumption wreaks havoc with our immune and endocrine systems,
leading to chronic conditions including arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, asthma,
and hypoglycemia, along with the usual suspects such as cavities and periodontal
disease. Appleton admits that she herself used to be a sugar addict, preferring to
take her sweets in the form of chocolate, and consequently suffered from numerous
allergies, plus bronchitis, pneumonia, and even a chest tumor that turned out to be
a huge calcium deposit that resulted from her body's inability to process the pounds
of sugar she consumed.
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Sweet
Poison
How the World's Most Popular
Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us |
By Janet Starr
Hull
After a personal illness caused by the artificial sweetener aspartame
found in NutraSweet/Equal, Hull exposes the hidden truths behind the dangers of
this popular sugar-substitute. Don't pick up another diet drink sweetened with
NutraSweet until you have read her riveting story.
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Deadly
Deception: Story of Aspartame
Shocking Expose of the World's Most Controversial
Sweetener |
By Mary Nash
Stoddard
What you and your Doctor don't know about Aspartame could fill a book - and it
has! Get the facts about Aspartame also known as (NutraSweet/Equal) in Stoddard's
hard-hitting 200 page report. Deadly Deception - Story of Aspartame is a serious look
at this issue and could save your life or that of someone you love. Author, Mary
Nash Stoddard, Founder of the world's massive anti-aspartame consumer movement and
Director of Aspartame Consumer Safety Network since 1987, has been featured in print
and electronic news stories around the world and is a favorite guest/resource of talk
show hosts and producers.
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Excitotoxins:
The Taste That Kills |
By Russell L.
Blaylock
Primarily for the lay public, but also for those trained in medical science and
biology, neurosurgeon Blaylock releases a well-researched bombshell--that excitotoxins,
substances added to food and beverages and including glutamate (MSG) and aspartate
(NutraSweet), damage nerve cells in the brain, and are particularly dangerous to the
elderly, children, and those at high risk of neurodegenerative diseases. Must have the
food industry flacks working overtime.
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Eat Right 4 Your
Type
The Individualized Diet
Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight
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By Dr. Peter J.
D'Adamo
As recently as five years ago, any talk about the healing powers of alternative medicine
would have produced considerable scoffing. Today, many patients of alternative
practitioners can relate at least one true curative tale. The time is ripe, then,
for naturopathic physician-researcher D'Adamo to promote his family's two-generation
investigation into the alliance between blood type, diet, exercise, and health. His
premise is that the four blood types--O, A, B, and AB--are the key to our immune
systems. There is a strong and proven chemical reaction, positive or negative, between
blood type and the foods one eats. Each type, he (and his co-author) says, requires
its own diet, exercise, and meal plans; vitamin supplements; and personality profile.
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Eat Fat, Lose
Weight
The Right Fats Can Make
You Thin for Life |
By Ann Louise
Gittleman
Fifty-four percent of Americans are overweight and 22 percent of them are considered
obese. With many of us practicing a low fat diet why are we still gaining weight?
According to Ann Louise Gittleman, it's not too much fat in our diets, but too
little of the right kind of fat. In reality, many Americans are suffering from
a massive fat deficiency that is contributing to the rise of obesity, diabetes,
arthritis, breast cancer, and many more ills common today. Believe it or not,
it takes fat to lose
fat. Gittleman believes this is the problem with many low fat diets. Medicinal fats,
known as essential fatty acids, actually increase our metabolic rate. EFAs can help
you stay fit and healthy.
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Essential Fatty Acids in Health &
Disease
Using the Essential Fats w3 and w6 to Improve Your
Health, Lower Your Cholesterol, and Prevent Cardiovascular Disease |
By Dr. Edward N.
Siguel
Comprehensive description of the role of essential fats in health and disease for
people who want to live long and healthy lives, patients, professionals, and news
media. The author discovered why low-fat diets can be harmful, and invented a test
to diagnose deficiencies and imbalances of essential fats. Based on original research
by the author published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, presented at
scientific meetings, and cited by international news media such as CNN, Time, The New
York Times, etc. Reveals how to use the essential fats w3 (like fish, flax oils) and
w6 (like soybean, evening primrose, borage oils) to improve your health, prevent
cardiovascular disease, improve your IQ, get a healthier, trimmer body, and have
younger looking skin. Discusses guidelines on fat, cholesterol, cancer, and diabetes.
Advises on lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and dangerous blood
levels of trans fatty acids.
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Smart Fats
How Dietary Fats and Oils Affect Mental, Physical and
Emotional Intelligence |
By Michael A.
Schmidt
Written by a research scientist in the field of nutrition, this book describes how the
body's digestive, communication, and nervous systems function, and links fatty acid
intake to memory, mood and behavior. Schmidt explains how most "low-fat" diets are
actually unhealthy. Technical details that other authors apparently thought were
too difficult for the average reader are covered in this book. But that doesn't make
the book difficult to read. If we followed the excellent suggestions of this
book, I wager there would be less Alzheimer's, better memory in aging adults,
and smarter kids.
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Nutrition and Evolution:
Food in Evolution and the
Future |
By Michael
Crawford and David Marsh
They bill it as "an amazing new look at human evolution - and the unsuspected
power that may impel it." The authors take a page from Ray Audette's Neanderthin
(above) and look at the effects that modern diet has had on our human bodies - created
to eat a more carnivorous caveman diet. While they dabble in theories of origin
here, skip right to the biochemistry set out in this book which can literally
restore your health if you have a Western degenerative disease. Crawford and
Marsh elucidate an emerging paradigm.
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The Zone:
A Dietary Road Map to Lose
Weight Permanently, Reset Your Genetic
Code, Prevent Disease & Achieve Maximum
Physical Performance. |
By Dr. Barry
Sears
Barry Sears looks at why Americans still have dietary problems in spite of
following the advice of experts. Challenging the current recommendations for
a high carbohydrate diet, Sears looks into man's history as well as the diets
athletes succeed best on, to build a new dietary picture. Anyone looking for
better health through an improved relationship to what they eat should put
this book on their list.
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Mastering the
Zone:
The Next Step in
Achieving Superhealth and Permanent Fat Loss. |
By Dr. Barry
Sears and Mary Goodbody
Flying in the face of conventional dietary thinking, and after years of
comprehensive scientific research, Dr. Sears discovered that "eating fat doesn't
make you fat." His phenomenally successful first book, The Zone, introduced the
world to to groundbreaking health plan that for hundreds of thousands of readers
has become the magic key to maintaining a consistent level of physical and mental
well-being a healthful state known as "The Zone." Now Dr. Sears takes his breakthrough
scientific discoveries and stunning success a step further with Mastering the Zone,
which not only presents delicious, completely original Zone-favorable recipes that
are easy to prepare and taste as good as they are good for you, but also offers a
practical guide to fine-tuning your place in the Zone.
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