Healthy Weight Loss Diet Plan: The Dakota Diet: Health Secrets from the Great Plains [Paperback] Review

The more we see the onslaught of modern diseases as a result of our poor nutritional habits over the past 50 years or so, it has spawned a movement of getting back to the original diet of our early ancestors. We've seen a lot of paleolithic diets that hearken back to the days of the caveman, but even the diet consumed by native Americans such as the Plains Indians in the Dakotas was filled with a much healthier selection of foods than what we see in the Standard American Diet (SAD) today. That's the basis for The Dakota Diet by Dr. Kevin Weiland.

The diet itself includes an excellent selection of high-quality food that helps to bring the omega-3/omega-6 fatty acids into the proper balance. Dr. Weiland accomplishes this by promoting healthy fat consumption that comes from grass-fed buffalo, flax seeds, fresh fish, and wild game. He claims that the lower-fat content of these good fat sources provide fewer calories in conjunction with nutrient-dense foods like fruits, vegetables, soy, whole grains, and fiber-rich foods including beans, barley, and oats.

Overall, I think the message of choosing better quality meat choices from bison and even beef is a good one. But I'm concerned with Dr. Weiland's commentary about high-fat low-carb diets such as Atkins. As someone who lost 180 pounds on that particular plan created by the late, great Dr. Robert C. Atkins, I was stunned to read what he had to say about this healthy way of eating. He claims the Atkins diet is too high in saturated fat and too low in fruits, whole grains, fiber and calcium. Ummm, what's wrong with saturated fat since science is showing it is a perfect fuel source for your body when you remove the excessive carbohydrate from your diet? As for fruits, I eat blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, cantaloupe, and honeydew all the time. Whole grains are a crock! And calcium is plentiful in the cheese and cream you consume eating low-carb.

Dr. Weiland believes that a diet high in saturated fat such as Atkins "causes your body to produce too much LDL cholesterol and reduces HDL cholesterol in the body." With all due respect, this information is just dead wrong. When you consume a deliciously healthy high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carb diet, your LDL may rise, but the preponderance of the LDL particles will be the large, fluffy and protective kind, not the small, dense and dangerous ones. As for HDL "good" cholesterol, it goes way up. My HDL went from the lower 20s when I weighed 410 pounds up to an incredible 72 after my 180-pound weight loss success on Atkins. This is the kind of health benefits that people who eat this way get to enjoy.

The scaremongering over diets like Atkins and Protein Power is just unnecessary Dr. Weiland. I think your diet is certainly an improvement over what is being promoted as "healthy" out there today. But rather than slam these other more successful diet plans to try to make yours look good, why not embrace the lessons we have learned from the success of the people who have been on them? This is an awful trend happening among new diet books to throw jabs in at Atkins at how bad it is supposed to be just to prop up their nutritional program. Tell us what's good about your diet and let people decide what is best for their dietary needs.

If you want to improve your menus from your current SAD diet, then certainly The Dakota Diet can set you on a better path. But you can just about ignore all of Dr. Weiland's unnecessary negative opinions about livin' la vida low-carb because he is not citing all the preponderance of the evidence in support of saturated fat consumption, the concerns with carbohydrates even from so-called healthy whole grains, and the misinformation he is providing about the popular low-carb diets. It's shameful and disgusting to make the kind of negative health claims about Atkins and other low-carb regimens that Dr. Weiland does in his book. I would only hope that future editions of this book provides just the facts about The Dakota Diet and leaves the pontificating over the diets to others.

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You may have tried numerous diets over the years in an attempt to lose weight, only to regain the pounds after going off the diet. The problem with popular diets is that they are not nutritionally sound. "The Dakota Diet" is different--it is a way of eating that provides you with nutritionally satisfying foods to help you lose weight, improve your cholesterol levels, and add healthier years to your life.The foods that the Plains Indians hunted and gathered were rich in healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Today, our diet contains low levels of omega-3s and is loaded with omega-6s. As we forage at the grocery store, the foods we bring home contain up to 20 times more omega-6s than omega-3s. Omega-3 fats counter the unhealthy effects of omega-6s and are found in abundance right here in America's backyard, on the plains of the Dakotas."The Dakota Diet is not a fad diet; it can help you rediscover the benefits of healthy fats and enjoy hearty American foods while losing weight and improving your health. It is high in good omega-3 fatty acids found in abundance in flax seed, soy, buffalo, fresh fish, and wild game. The diet focuses on nutrient-dense, low-calorie foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains. The meat is from animals that are allowed to graze on grasses, such as buffalo, which has less fat and fewer calories than meat from grain-fed animals. And, the diet is also high in soluble fiber found in beans, barley, and oats--foods that help balance cholesterol.This book will show you how to find and prepare wonderful foods full of healthy fats, featuring delicious recipes for grass-fed buffalo and wild game, vegtables, grains and salads straight from the prairie.

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