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21. There seems to be a lot of confusion about this book. The book is not a diet book at all. You won¡¯t find recipes, sample meal plans, or a list of supplements, etc. The book is an intensely comprehensive(full of material/extremely dense) investigation into the history of diet and nutrition research over the past 150 years. The book explores how the present day well ingrained low fat, high carb dogma was established and how its efficacy is not supported by the evidence. He effectively argues that the low fat, high carb diet that has been pushed on the population for the past thirty+ years is most likely the reason for the obesity epidemic plaguing the world today. Based on the evidence Gary develops an ¡°alternative hypothesis¡± of what constitutes good diet and nutrition and he challenges scientists to test it out using sound scientific practices. (Something that Gary shows has not been done to support the present day Low Fat, High Carb Hypothesis.) The book is very enlightening and extremely well done, imo. Mark 22. In the past few years, I've gone from 290 pounds to 180 pounds (I'm 6'2", 31 years old) and kept it off. I did it with daily, vigorous exercise and a balanced diet that strongly emphasizes carbohydrates and vegetables, with much less protein and fat than I used to eat. 23. I see a lot of people thinking that this is a diet book. It's not, it's only information about diets. And I mean diet as in what we eat, not a specific diet. He obviously thinks that Low-Carb diets are the way to go, but he doesn't give any recommendations. 24. What we are talking here is sheer common sense. When I was a child my mother made almost everything we ate from scratch. We had little in the way of processed foods, we actually ate real butter and she even used lard on occasion. We had beef, chicken, fish and pork, potates, rice beans, vegetables, cheese and everything under the sun to eat. It was always in porportion and we were never told to clean our plates. It was take no more than you will eat. This is the way i fed my children when they were growing up. They were not and are not over weight, nor am I. The reintroduction of common sense in the american diet....what a concept |
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