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Title: Fat Blocker Diet: The Revolutionary Discovery That Removes Fat Naturally by Arnold Fox, Brenda, M.H.A. Adderly, Arnold, M.D. Fox ISBN: 0-312-17102-1 Publisher: St Martins Pr (T) Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (5 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: gives nutritional downside of many popular diets
Comment: The idea of "dieters beware" below is that I actually liked the chapter of the book with that same title, which somehow got omitted from my review below. It gives you the nutritional downside of numerous popular diets that you probably won't get in the books that promote or endorse those diets. This knowledge could be quite useful even if you do not choose to go with the chitosan plan. You should keep in mind however that the information does appear to be slanted in favor of high carbohydrate diets, and attacks extra fat in food as being the main source of our nutritional problems, whereas most sources I have read agree that excess energy is stored in our bodies as fat regardless of what type of food the energy derives from.

Rating: 3
Summary: "dieters beware"
Comment: The basic idea of the fat blocker diet is to take the supplement chitosan before meals to absorb a high percentage of fat so that you do not end up ingesting it in the first place. The plan also calls for a high-carbohydrate/low-protein/low-fat diet. The book focuses on establising good eating habits for life and is not supposed to be a fad diet that you will abandon in a few weeks or months.END

Rating: 1
Summary: Don't waste your time
Comment: The book is a lot of fluff surrounding two very basic messages: 1)Take one gram of chitosan for every five grams of fat you don't want to be absorbed, and 2)follow a high-fiber, low-fat diet to lose weight. The former is readily available info that you could get at a health-food store or on the web, the latter is common sense. I can't vouch for Chitosan's weight-loss benefits (I have a few colleagues who swear by it, and they're pretty stable folks, so...), but I recommend you buy a good book about basic nutrition instead of this one...you'll learn more and will be able to apply it to your lifestyle more constructively.