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Rating: - Persuasive Facts not Hype
I've been eating "health foods" and taking nutritional supplements for 40 years due to the advice of my grandmother who had a long and vigorous life and was years ahead of her time. Many well-known scientists, among them Linus Pauling, have written of the devastating health affects caused by diets high in refined flours and sugars.I had never had to watch my weight until about 5 years ago. I started using a low-fat diet and was exercising (I've always been active) like a fiend. I had a horrible time keeping my trim figure, and even though I eventually did lose weight, my body fat was higher than it had ever been. A friend suggested I try the "Sugar Busters" diet, which I did with great results. Then I found this book and was ecstatic to discover a thoughtful and convincing guide that addressed both my interest in nutritional supplements with my desire to eat a healthy diet, and keep off the fat! I recommend this book highly, and will continue to use it as my dietary "bible". As a side-note: take a look at the difference in sugar content between the regular and low-fat versions of many pre-packaged foods. You may be as amazed, and angered as I was to discover that the food processors are making up for the bland taste of low-fat products by cramming them full of sugar.
Rating:  - Will get you thinking about your diet!
Heard DR. ATKINS' AGE-DEFYING DIET REVOLUTION,
written by Dr. Robert C. Atkins . . . he is the somewhat
controversial doctor who people seem to either love or
hate--but whose methods work . . . in fact, a friend
recently told me how she lost 60 pounds by following
his advice!I'm not interested in losing any weight, but I am trying
to reduce my cholesterol . . . and I wanted to
find out how Atkins said this could be done, while
eating a diet high in fats . . . also, like all of us, I'd like
to live longer and feel better. Atkins cogently points out that:
* Whatever causes today's heart disease epidemic was not
there eighty or more years ago. Heart attacks are a modern
phenomenon that occurs in Western cultures. * Cleave's Rule of Twenty Years warns that whenever refined
carbohydrates become a major addition to a culture, two
diseases begin to emerge twenty years later: diabetes and
coronary heart disease. * The rule of blood lipid levels most likely to result in a heart attack is the combination of high triglycerides and low
HDL cholesterol. * By restricting carbohydrates, my heart patients almost
always report improvement in symptoms and are able to reduce
or stop medications for heart disease, high blood pressure,
and/or diabetes. In addition, he says trans fats are "the worst" . . . these are
polyunsaturated vegetable oils that have been processed to make
them solid at room temperature--these fats are known as partially hydrogenated oils. Heated polyunsaturated vegatable oils, as you do when you deep-fry foods in corn, safflower, peanut, and other common oils, is another way to produce trans fat. . . . And of course, margarine, even the low-fat kind, is by definition nothing but a stick or tub of trans fat. Overall, Atkins certainly got me thinking about my diet, and that's a good thing . . . I'm not quite ready to adopt all that he proposes; however, I will make it a point to get more protein in my diet.
Rating: - Atkins seems to have reviewed some of his extreme views
Having read Dr. Atkins "New Diet Revolution" and "Omega Diet" I now feel as if Dr. Atkins is taking back, in a sense, some of his extreme views on things. Sure this is a book about a diet to defy age, but he's certainly showing himself considerably more open to eating fruits (the healthy ones of course) and the idea that not all fats are created equal (Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids concept, touched in extensive detail in the book "Omega Diet"), which happened to be the two things that bothered me the most about the "New Diet Revolution." The book also gives a very detailed account about the role played by all antioxidants (natural and supplements) and vitanutrients needed to defy aging. I have made it my reference book when it comes to eating and living healthily.
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