Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Life Without Bread by Christian B. Allan, Wolfgang Lutz ISBN: 0-658-00170-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A MUST for low carb diet followers
Comment: This book was a real eye-opener for me. It completely blasts the conventional (low fat, high carb) lifestyle that we have been taught is so "healthy" - when, infact it may be what is causing us to be so fat, so diabetic and so riddled with heart disease.
One of the authors, Wolfgang Lutz, is a German Doctor who shares his 40+ years of treating more that 10,000 patients with a low carb high protein high fat diet.
A technical book as well as a "diet" book - not just to lose weight, but how low carb/high protein eating just might be able to prevent and possibly cure heart disease, diabetes and digestive troubles.
I know I will LIVE LONGER AND HEALTHIER for having read this book!
Update: 10/9/2003: Since reading this book, I have followed the tenents, and: 1) Lost 52 lbs 2) My blood sugar has returned to normal.
I feel better, eat well, am never hungry - and still believe I will live longer because of this book.
Buy - read - learn - live LONGER!
Rating: 5
Summary: Life Without Bread
Comment: Over the years I've read many of the books out there on low carbohydrate dieting, and in my opinion this is one of the best there is. The book is based on the many years of practice and studies done by German Dr. Wolfgang Lutz. It's very straight forward and makes a low carb lifestyle fairly easy to accomplish with few, easy to understand rules. It also gives a lot of good information on how a low carb lifestyle can positively impact many common medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, etc.
Rating: 1
Summary: I didn't like Life without Bread
Comment: As the previous reviewer mentioned, the main structure of this book is to limit your carbohydrate intake to 72 grams a day. That's about 280 calories or a little more. So if you are eating at 2000 calorie per day diet, they are recommending you limit your carbohydrate intake to about 13 or 14 percent of your daily intake. You will make up the remaining 86 to 87 percent in fat or protein, the other macronutrients.
The premise of the book, like all low carb books, is that limiting carbs limits insulin production. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to, among other things, regulate blood sugar. Overproduction of insulin, as the authors capably demonstrate, is linked with a number of health disorders such as diabetes,obesity, heart disease and other chronic conditions. So what's wrong with limiting carbs to keep too much insulin in your system?
The first problem is that the authors haven't provided any empirical evidence for their 72 gram number. Why not 50 or 100, or 200, etc. They should present the foundation of their basis, not leaving the reader to wonder if it is picked out of the sky.
Second, all carbohydrates are lumped together irrespective of their glycemic index. Refined carbs like sugar in cakes or bread which release their blood sugar quickly are counted the same as unrefined carbohydrates such as beans, whole grains and fruits which contain fiber, release blood sugar slowly, and add essential phytochemicals that help present disease. All of which leads me to my third point.
Third, Life without bread presents unlimited meat, cheese, dairy products, etc without presenting the total risks that these foods present (e.g. increased risk of cancer) while limiting foods that can reduce these risks based solely on the carbohydrate content without regard for the food's potential to stimulate insulin production.
If you want to limit refined carbs to prevent Syndrome X, it's a step in the right direction. Just don't throw out the baby with bathwater. Unrefined carbs shouldn't count the same as refined carbs. They are generally higher in fiber and needed phytochemicals (antioxidants) and don't stimulate your insulin to the extent that refined carbs do.
 |
Title: The Secret to Low Carb Success!: How to Get the Most Out of Your Low Carbohydrate Diet by Laura Richard ISBN: 1575668955 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
 |
Title: Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon, Mary G. Enig PhD. ISBN: 0967089735 Publisher: NewTrends Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
 |
Title: The No-Grain Diet: Conquer Carbohydrate Addiction and Stay Slim for Life by Joseph Mercola, Alison Rose Levy ISBN: 0525947337 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 24 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Dana Carpender ISBN: 1592330401 Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: Living Low-Carb: The Complete Guide to Long Term Low-Carb Dieting by Fran McCullough ISBN: 0316089761 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 02 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
