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Title: The No-Grain Diet: Conquer Carbohydrate Addiction and Stay Slim for Life by Joseph Mercola, Alison Rose Levy ISBN: 0-525-94733-7 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 24 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (41 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Logical Explanations, But Not Easy to Implement
Comment: I think Dr. Mercola is awesome and has a lot of useful things on his website that have aided me in obtaining good health. His book was easy to read and the explanations were reasonable and easy to understand.
However, I didn't find following his diet recommendations quite as easy to follow. As a working full time mom of 2 young children and a husband, it wasn't practical. I did, however, find a way to eliminate grains from my diet much easier for someone with my lifestyle.
I realize that good health doesn't just come to a person so easily and does take hard work. Maybe providing some solutions that are in between because it's hard for many people to go from the bad habits to 180 degrees the other way.
I think he does a great job with the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) stuff which greatly can help people get over the emotional roadblocks that hinder a person from achieving success. This can apply to any area of one's life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eat More Variety, Be Healthy & Lose Weight
Comment: In "No grain Diet" Dr. Mercola provides a three-step program for losing weight and keeping it off. His experience is based upon research and his work as an Osteopathic physician. He's also the Director of the Optimal Wellness Center in the Chicago area. In other words, he's got the resumé.
Dr. Mercola is one of a growing number of physicians that conclude that the current USDA nutritional food pyramid is not conducive to our bodies' needs nor optimal health. In fact, it's flat-out not healthy. To Mercola, significant or excessive amount of carbohydrates are the major causes of weight gain, a number of diseases, illnesses, and disorders. However, this is not an exclusively anti-carbo diet or regimen, but simply a reduction. And, for the good, this is not an absolute no-grain diet. After some time on this program people can introduce grains back into their diet. What's new here is that Dr. Mercola is also not a proponent of the high protein diet programs that have become so prevalent in recent years.
There are three phases of this eating and living method. Three-day, fifty-day, and the long-term maintenance plan. Achieving the optimal weight and being healthy is the goal of this diet program.
You can learn a lot about foods and what they do to us. This seems to be more balanced and healthy than a lot of other programs out there today.
Rating: 1
Summary: Where has the concept of balanced eating gone?
Comment: I found this book in the library and checked it out because I was curious about the accupressure techniques. I already knew, and had been trying, the basics of low-carb eating for several months, but had not been able to get past the cravings for comfort foods such as mashed potatoes, a steaming bowl of real oatmeal on a cold winter's night, acorn squash, brown rice, thick crusty slices of fresh organic whole grain bread, and just out of the oven chocolate chip cookies.
This book had the opposite effect on me from the concept it was trying to prove. It helped me to think about food in a different way. What was making me such a "bad" person that I couldn't stay with a low-carb plan? Was I really addicted to carbs like an alcoholic is to alcohol, as this book states? Did I really need to use a technique the rest of my life to abstain from foods that certain so called experts have decided are bad for us?
What if there is another explanation for what has been going on for the past 20-30 years. What if our bodies actually have the ability to let us know when our habits have become unbalanced. What if cravings for real food (not junk) are actually the result of the huge increase in the consumption of processed convenience foods. I've certainly consumed my share over the years.
We are, everyone of us, individuals with individual needs. The problem with each diet program that is promoted, including vegetarianism, is that only a portion of the population can thrive on it. It is just plain misleading to state that a particular way of eating is best for everyone. Could it be that the real reason a person isn't able to stay with a diet in which a part of the food chain is missing is because this person's body needs those foods to thrive?
This book promotes an extreme and unrealistic plan for eating, then states that it must be used for the rest of your life to keep weight off. While I now eat mostly organic foods, Mercola takes even this a step further by stating that only grass fed beef should be eaten, that grain fed beef could make you fat. The constant reminders to only use this and not use that in his recipes was extremely annoying. The recommended foods list was confusing and contradicted itself in several places. And I was put off by the general tone of arrogance that ran throughout this book.
Do we really need another "expert" making money off of people by promoting fears about food and insisting that their's is the "right" weight loss plan? Take a long look around. None of the ideas promoted by the weight loss industry have worked long term, have they.
Canada has a national program guideline called Vitality. The concepts are: Eat well. (To me that means concentrate on real foods for the majority of my meals.) Live actively. (What do I enjoy doing that gets me moving around?) Think well of yourself. (Accepting yourself as you are right now is how long lasting changes have a chance to begin.)
Do you think you could live the rest of your life eating well, living actively and thinking well of yourself (and others)? How about making our own choices instead of following someone else's rigid plan? Please listen to your own body. Pay attention to how you feel when you eat this or that. This is what I chose to do. Now the extra weight and inches are beginning to come off of me on their own.
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