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Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life

 

Life Without Bread is an important addition to the growing body of

literature on the benefits and importance of the low-carb diet. Written by

Christian Allan, Ph.D., and Wolfgang Lutz, M.D., the book is based on Dr.

Lutz's

experience using carbohydrate restricted diets with thousands of patients

for more than 40 years. It is based on extensive research in medical and

scientific literature and provides ample references. The book presents a unified

theory of how high (and even moderate) levels of dietary carbohydrate

cause or exacerbate various health problems and how carbohydrate-restriction

can help people to recover from those problems.

 

 

The book Life Without Bread by Christian Allan, Ph.D. and Wolfgang Lutz,

M.D. has a chapter on gastrointestinal diseases. Don't let the title mislead

you to believe the cure is the simple elimination of bread. Mr. Lutz's

older book is out of print but has essentially the same information; it may

even contain more detail than his new book above. Fortunately _Chapter VII:

Gastro-Intestinal Tract_ (http://www.scdiet.org/7archives/lutz/lutz7.html)

of the older book can be read online.

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Good Calories, Bad Calories

by Gary Taubes

 

This is a must read book. Gary Taubes is an award- winning scientist who

has specialized in exposing misleading, incorrect, or fraudulent science.

His seven- year research in every science connected with the impact of

nutrition on health shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature

of a healthy diet is wrong. For decades we have been taught that fat is bad

for us, carbohydrates are better, and that the key to a healthy weight is

eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on the

advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes.

 

 

Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates

(white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) via their dramatic effect on

insulin -- the hormone that regulates fat accumulation -- and that the key

to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There

are good and bad calories. Taubes traces how the common assumption that

carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when fat and cholesterol

were blamed for heart disease and then -- wrongly -- were seen as the

causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these

unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition,

public health, and clinical medicine in spite of how well-conceived clinical

trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the dietary trials

of carbohydrate-restriction which consistently show that the fewer

carbohydrates we consume the leaner we will be.

 

 

With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies,

he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence

demonstrating that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease; that salt

causes high blood pressure; and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy

diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the

only healthy way to lose weight and remain lean is to eat fewer

carbohydrates or to change the type of carbohydrates we do eat and, for some of

us,

perhaps to eat virtually none at all.

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TNT DIET - Targeted Nutrition Tactics

by Jeff Volek, Ph.D., RD and Adam Campbell, Men's Health Magazine

The explosive new plan to blast fat, build muscle and get healthy.

 

 

The TNT Diet is a great book for bodybuilders and everyone else who wants

to preserve and build lean muscle while controlling body fat. This book is

a must read for anyone on the low-carbohydrate diet.

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Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution - Revised and Improved

 

The Atkins' New Diet Revolution is the best book for an initial dietary

change and quick weight loss, reduced blood pressure, and reduced

cholesterol. Look for the companion book for recipes. It has some very

interesting

case studies from the doctor's patients and includes data from past

civilizations which prove the low-carbohydrate diet is the most healthy. Robert

C.

Atkins, M.D.

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Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet Revolution

 

Dr. Atkins newest book is Age-Defying Diet Revolution. The main topics are

the cause, prevention, and cure for diabetes and heart disease which have

become major health concerns in the United States and many other developed

countries. Robert C. Atkins, M.D. with Sheila Buff.

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