Healthy Living Books Books

Rating: - Welcome addittion to the debate
Very interesting and enjoyable book and I am suprised it didn't get more publicity, perhaps because it's not pushing a diet. It's interesting that again and again it is refined carbs in the form of sugar and refined flour that appear as the culprits in humans trying to obtain optimal health and not neccessarily fats as is so often the general view. Also frightening how the medical profession and goverment health organisations respond to the propaganda from the food manufacturers and ignore the facts presented by researchers who don't always have the backing of large budgets. I read Tiger Lilly's review with interest, I am not vegitarian as it has never seemed to suit me but I hear what she is saying but nit sounds like she clearly has her own agenda, however I didn't come away from this book thinking it was all about meat, It's simply saying that evidence suggests that over consumptiopn of cabohydrate makes you fat that certainly seems to be the case, if we ate as closely as we can to what our hunter gather forefathers ate which seems to have been a litttle meat, shoots,green veg, nuts,berries and some other fruit and avoided as much of the foods that only became available as a result of mass farming and edible only as a result of cooking methods then we would be better for it. One final point worth thinking about is that I don't imagine the current apple, pear or bannana bears much resemblance to the fruits our hunter gatherer forefathers ate, they too have been "improved" by selective breeding to a point where I guess and correct me if wrong, that the sugar content of modern fruit is well in excess of what would have been in our ancient diet and should therefore be eaten in moderation. Over all a good well thought out book for any one confused about the current debate on what is and isn't a healthy diet.

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Rating: - This book is fantastic
It confirmed what I suspected. I ve spent years eating whole grain healthy stuff with pretty low fat intake and I still put on weight - even though I was going to the gym daily. It s only in the past 3 months by eating low carbs (always accompanied by some fat and protein) and a lot more fat (olive oil, coconut oil as well as meats and full fat dairy products) that I ve lost over 3 stone. I haven t exercised more or starved - just lost weight.
Everyone is different of course - but try eating along the lines this book suggests and CHECK IT OU BY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
The book is a must have - it certainly taught me never to trust any scientist completely, especially dieticians/nutritionists - they ve all got an agenda and a reputation to make.

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Rating: - Updated. Evidence to support we've wrongly been sold a bad diet!
This book is one of those books which once you read you cant really put down!
He has facts & evidence to support the truth that the LOW FAT DOGMA IS WRONG! With even evidence showing that the Government spent a fortune trying to flaw the Low Carb against the Low Fat dogma but failed (and so badly!) so it was all hushed up and forgotten.
But they can continue to say that they're right. But with more and more people following the low-carb hypothesis, and seeing overwhelming results, pretty soon they'll have to admit they're wrong.
This book is a great read but it'll make you angry as all the scientific evidence, with facts and proof, will make you question what you've been told by the medical profession.
UPDATE - I've now lost 6st following a low-carb diet! I will be buying this book for my Dr this Christmas. To the people who just say all i've lost is muscle 6st(All from my waist?) - well try telling my family that i had 6st of muscle there; I kept trying to convince them that it muscle not fat there they never believed me!
I'm so glad i came across his 'what if its been one big fat lie?' article. Its changed my life this. The science explains it clearly - adipose tissue production/fat accumulation occurs when the body fails to burn off all its insulin its made. Why does it make it? to break down carbohydrates. Your body tries to get rid of the insulin but when you have something else high in carbs e.g. pasta it produces more insulin and has to get rid of that. What it fails to get rid of = Adipose tissue/FAT.
G.Taubes even explains why the current belief doesn't even match the 1st law of thermodynamics - because they are not independant variables. Also, it doesn't have arrows of causality and he shows, again, how it can't be similar to it even when corrected with them.
If you want an interesting read buy the book. I dont need any more proof, with the weight i've lost, that my Dr was putting me on the wrong diet. If you need the proof though, G.T gives you lots of evidence for it - actually too much its overwhelming as it shocks you because you see how much the so-called 'medical experts' have ignored.

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Rating: - Insufficient Superlatives
Thank you, Mr Taubes, for presenting a critical analysis of the evidence published so far, for although my own researches had drawn me to similar conclusions as your own, you have argued the case more eloquently, thoroughly, and accurately than I can.

The only distressing aspect about reading this book is that if one has to deal subsequently with so-called professionals and experts - such as my wife's 'diabetes team' - one discovers what Mr Taubes illustrates so well, namely that most of them appear to be blissfully ignorant of either the historical facts or the latest research.

I could write at some length extolling the value of this book, but other commentators have done the job for me. Apart from which, I doubt that I could find sufficient superlatives to do Mr Taubes justice.

Suffice to say, for anyone who is suffering from a chronic, life threatening disease, such as Type II diabetes, I cannot stress enough that reading this book will be of more benefit to you than the advice you are likely to receive from your medical team, since they are still pushing the high-carb, low fat and low-protein diet that they know simply does not work for over 95% of their patients. Any other so-called 'scientist' who persisted in performing the same unchanged experiment that had proved itself to have only a 5% success rate (with a better than 95% confidence limit), yet proclaimed that this was the 'answer' to the problem, would have his claims dismissed out of hand.

Take control of your life. Read this book so that you can defend yourself from the ignorance, prejudice and political bias you will undoubtedly encounter from the medical establishment when it comes to dealing with your diabetes and its complications. After all, it's not their life they are jeopardising, it's yours.

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Rating: - Alas!
All I can say is FAB, much needed and scientific. Also confirms the 'ridiculousness'of the cholesterol hype and furthermore the good cholesterol bad cholesterol rubbish.

A must read for any health professional.

Thanks Mr Taubes!