Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health [Bargain Price] [Hardcover] Review

After all the controversy about "Low-Carb" diets it's good to get the story straight from the man who started it.This book lays out the ground rules and provides a good overview of the science behind the hype one reads on the Internet and hears from the media.

I found that just a few minutes with Dr. Atkins' book answered a lot of my questions about how carbohydrates affect your diet and overall health.It also set me straight on a number of misconceptions I had formed out of ignorance or from the half-truths spouted by diet "experts".

If you're thinking about a low-carb diet like Southbeach, you owe it to yourself to get Atkins' perspective on nutrition and food-related health issues.

Bottom line...there's a lot information in this book.It has a reasonable number of good meal plans and great recipes.Only shortfall I found was the lack of cross-referencing so finding all the parts to a meal takes a bit of effort.

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5 Square Low-Carb Meals: The 20-Day Makeover Plan with Delicious Recipes for Fast, Healthy Weight Loss and High Energy (Hardcover) Review

I purchased Monica Lynn's book to help me create healthy meals for myself and my husband. I was surprised at how easy Monica's meals are to create. I have lost 8 pounds and my husband has lost 17 pounds in 3 weeks!I am so thrilled!I have bought a ton of diet books over the years and I must say - this one works with ease. The recipes are so simple - I double them to save myself time with cooking.Lynn suggests saving the leftovers for the next days meals and portioning them out - brilliant.It is never easy to change ones eating habits and I must say - I rebelled at first...thankfully my husband is one of those people that get really focused and he motivated me to stay on track.I had sugar withdrawals the first 2 days as Lynn said I would...thankfully by day three I felt leaner and had more energy than I have had in years.This book is a no-brainer.

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"Eat more, eat clean" for fast, healthy weight loss and high energy!
Have you been looking for a healthy way to eat, without all the hassle of counting calories, calculating percentages, cutting out the foods you love, or regaining the weight? If so, Monica Lynn, founder and CEO of 5 squares#153;, offers the perfect plan to change how you eat -- and to change your life. 5 squares delivers five healthy, balanced meals -- or "squares" -- to clients each day. Now, you too can make the meals that have helped thousands of happy customers -- including members of the Yankees, Mets, and Rangers -- lose weight and increase their energy. Lynn's philosophy is simple: "Eat more, eat clean, and plan ahead." Eating five satisfying but smaller meals a day helps to keep your metabolism running smoothly and continuously, rather than shocking your system with a load of calories from larger meals. Developed especially for your kitchen and based on tried-and-true nutritional information, 5 Square Low-Carb Meals eliminates "empty calorie" foods that contain wheat and sugar in favor of those that help build lean muscle mass. The result: Your extra pounds will drop off safely and easily, and your energy will increase by leaps and bounds!
In 5 Square Low-Carb Meals, Lynn takes the guesswork out of healthful eating with twenty days' worth of easy-to-use recipes packed with flavor. Divided into five parts -- one for each "square" or meal -- the book provides a host of delicious options for your breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, and dinner. The combination of carbs, fat, and protein has already been calculated to create a healthy balance, so you can use the sample menus provided, or simply mix and match your own daily five squares according to the recipes and foods you like best.
Lynn also provides food diaries for charting your progress; information on how to create your own balanced recipes; and tips on dining out while on the plan, setting exercise goals, and staying on track long after you#146;ve completed the first twenty days.
Looking and feeling great are within your reach. 5 Square Low-Carb Meals gives you all the tools you need to change your lifestyle for the better, for good.

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Genocide: How Your Doctor's Dietary Ignorance Will Kill You!!!! (Paperback) Review

I have tried the two main low carb diets that are available and though they work, why I should remain on the diet was never fully explained.I read the books, followed the diet plan, and after a tremendous effort, I would eventually go back to the foods I was eating before.After reading Genocide, I now understand WHY I can't eat those foods.Genocide is a no nonsense approach to healthier living through correct nutrition and the application of simple scientific facts.In our society of instant gratification, plentiful amounts of any food, and the ability to buy most anything, sticking to the dietary example of Dr. Carlson is hard, but it is truly worth the effort.I understand the need to keep my distance from sugars and carbs, and because I do I have no problem sticking to the dietary changes offered by Dr. Carlson.Once you read this book, you will want to buy copies for your friends.You could pass on your copy, but then you wouldn't be able to read it again and again.

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Setting the record straight once and for all, Genocide: How Your Doctor's Dietary Ignorance Will Kill You!!!! by Dr. James E. Carlson breaks the chains of ignorance when it comes to dieting and staying healthy. Concern for his patients led this medical doctor to unveil common misconceptions regarding carbohydrates, fat, proteins, sugars and cholesterol that are perpetrated and perpetuated by the medical community. Regrettably, with the advice of doctors millions of Americans are eating themselves into an early grave. Now, avoiding a priori reasoning, readers are able to draw their own conclusions on what lifestyle is best for them and how to initiate the most sensible diet possible. Take back your life-the fact is that low fat, low cholesterol diets are dangerous. With humor, wit and a good dose of common sense, this guide shows readers that a diet with daily sources of fat, cholesterol and protein is effective in treating disease.

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The Low-Carb Gourmet: Recipes for the New Lifestyle [Paperback] Review

This is one of the best cookbooks I've bought in a long time, and I buy a lot of cookbooks.I made the Haricots Frites with Tarragon Sauce for a small cocktail party I had recently, and everyone raved.It was great to be able to tell my guests that they shouldn't feel guilty because these frites are low-carb!I also just tried the Seared Scallops with Cauliflower Florets, since scallops are in season, and the recipe was flawless. Whether or not you intentionally eat low-carb, these recipes are great!

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From Hollywood to South Beach, the latest craze in the diet world is low-carbohydrate, high-protein meals. However, until now, low-carb cookbooks have been decidedly lowbrow, more concerned with prepared ingredients and overly simplistic recipes than with flavor or presentation. In THE LOW-CARB GOURMET, Brigit Binns proves that it's possible to follow a low-carb regime and still eat well-in fact, exceedingly well. With 70 recipes for sophisticated yet approachable dishes like Gratin-Style Spinach and Aged-White Cheddar Souffle, Hazelnut-Crusted Freshwater Trout with Preserved Lemon Relish, and Star Anise Flan with Blackberries, THE LOW-CARB GOURMET takes low-carb eating beyond the hamburger sans bun and explains how to maintain a healthy, gourmet lifestyle that will leave you looking and feeling great. Complex enough to impress foodies and discerning guests yet simple enough for everyday family meals at home, THE LOW-CARB GOURMET raises the concept of "diet food" to new culinary heights.

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Dr. Atkin's Diet Revolution (Mass Market Paperback) Review

My wife and myself both started the Atkins program in Sept of 99.Now Dec 99 and we both have lost inches and at least 25 pounds each.We even cheat on weekends.If there is a special event going on, like Thanksgiving, wedidn't miss a thing.We enjoyed any food we wanted and then went back to amaintences program the following week.This past week was my ten yearsolds birthday and I enjoyed cake and icecream like everyone else.But Iknow that on Monday I must go back to a maintences program and it works.Itruely believe if I didn't cheat at all, I would have lost a lot moreweight, but I didn't gain it over night, so I don't expect to lose it overnight.It's a great program, don't give up before you've started!

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The Atkins Shopping Guide: Indispensable Tips and Guidelines for Successfully Stocking Your Low-carb Kitchen [Mass Market Paperback] Review

First off, my credentials:I lost fifty pounds on this diet.This is a review of this guide, not of the diet.
The beginning part of the book gives a brief, peppy rundown on the diet itself.It has some good information, but the tone is irritating.The phrase 'doing Atkins' may be colloquially understood, but it sounds amateurish and is heavily overused.No opportunity to pimp Atkins brand products is passed up.The result had me on edge by the time I began reading the actual shopping guide, and then it got worse.
The useful parts are those dealing with raw foods, ones that don't involve 'branding' (that's corporate newspeak for "ramming the product name into your head and keeping it there," folks):fruits, basic meats, cheeses.Gouda is gouda; tofu is tofu; beets are beets.Unfortunately, even these parts suffer from some degree of measurement inconsistency.
If you're going to compare nutritional facts from item to item, you have to use the same size portions for each item in a class.It is no good referring to 1/2 cup of most vegetables, then switching to 'half a baked potato' or 'two tablespoons'.Sure, the reader can convert, but isn't that why I bought the book? Pick a half cup and stick with it.Or an ounce.A ton.I don't care, as long as it's consistent, and the book's measurements are often so inconsistent as to be impractical for reference.
Where the book really begins to go south is when it comes to any form of 'branded' food.Atkins Nutritionals, or whichever branch of the Atkins empire put this out, has naturally listed Atkins brand products first in every category.Okay, fine, we're big kids and can read past this obvious shill; but even so, a lot of the other name brand products evaluated are going to change as the market reacts.That's going to make a big chunk of this book obsolete.Plus, the obvious placement of Atkins brand stuff first leaves a lingering suspicion:how did they choose the brands for the book? I can't find a lot of them on my local shelves.Is it possible that the ones chosen were those that would look undesirable relative to Atkins brand products? I don't know; I'm not a professional nutritionist or supermarket chain buyer.All I know is that the array of choices sure makes the Atkins stuff look like the best in every category.Funny how that worked, eh?
The problem with low-carb dieting, at this writing, is that our food providers have decided to brand a lot of their products with the 'low-carb' label, as if merely saying so will make it so.The guide states, correctly, that this stems from a lack of regulation.A balanced, professionally written guide would have been a great step forward; the message urged upon the reader from nearly every page of this book--"Just buy ours!"--is a step backward.
Like any sales brochure, this should be free.Don't pay $7.50 for it.

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What should I eat, and where can I find it?
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Are there hidden dangers in seemingly "acceptable" foods?


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The 24 Hour Diet (Hardcover) Review

THis book reads like an infomercial.i can almost hear him yelling at me with his BOLD words jumping off the page.
he states that he spent years and years researching.Ok, great, but then he really doesn't say much in this book.
There is so much repetition in this book that after the first 2 chapters you can close it.cause he will repeat himself over and over in the later chapters.

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The 24-Hour Diet: The No-Denial Strategy of Fabulous Food to Make you Lean For Life.Filled with science-based, medical report-quality facts & information. This hardcover book will change your life!

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Dr. Cohens New Hippocratic Diet Guide (Paperback) Review

I hate diets. Suffering and deprivation is not something I do well. After being diagnosed with severe sleep apnea, it was clear the extra weight had to go. Bariatric surgery was not an option I would consider, soooo what to do ? I was advised that Dr Cohen was advocating a low carbohydrate diet that goes beyond popular diets such as Atkins. The alternative serious weight loss programs in town were expensive calorie based programs that wanted me to buy thier expensive diet food. Suffering and going broke seemed a bad idea. I chose Dr Cohen and his diet which is published in this book. It is a serious, scientific, yet practical approach that makes sense and is easy to both monitor and execute. In approximately 18 months I lost 112 lb and I am still losing. I am never hungry. You can test easily with ketone strips to see if your body is in the fat burning mode and adjust accordingly. It helps to eliminate temptations around the house.

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Have you been made to feel it was your fault when you could not lose weight? It is likely that you did not fail at dieting; your diet failed you. This book is for everyone who has tried other diets and failed. Dr. Cohen explains why bad weight-loss diet advice, worsened by changes in the food industry, is responsible for the worldwide obesity epidemic. His answer is an effective, natural diet, based upon a modern computer model, yet confirming weight-loss principles first described more than 2,000 years ago by Hippocrates, the physician considered to be the father of rational Western medicine.

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