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Christopher Allen (Santa Monica, CA) has been a database professional for almost 20 ears. He is an OCP DBA and an OCP Application Developer and has worked on numerous Oracle Financials implementations. In addition, he has taught several hundred computer classes to adults, resulting in extensive experience communicating technical information in ways that are easy to absorb and easy to remember. His published works include the Oracle Certified Professional Application Developer Exam Guide (co-author, Oracle Press), Hard Disk Smarts (John Wiley Publishing), and four books on Lotus (Que). He also served as technical editor for Microsoft's DOS 5 and DOS 6 manuals. He is currently employed at Metier, an Oracle partner company that provides consulting services in the Los Angeles area.
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CONTRARY TO CURRENT POPULAR WISDOM, it is carbohydrates, not fat, that contribute to many dietary related diseases. Read the first page
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a breadaholic I rather wish this book had sailed by under my radar but perhaps it was meant to be?
It is easy to read, even for a non-scientist (like myself), and contains all the latest research findings of diet and nutrition which may well prompt even a casual reader to adopt a radical change to their daily food habits.
The authors explain the dangers of the Western diet in which refined carbohydrates have disproportionally supplanted our protein and vegetable intake to a frightening degree over the past century, prompting the explosion in obesity and Type 2 diabetes which the medical profession is now struggling to reverse.
Following the tips contained in this excellent book, I lowered my carbohydrate intake to 10% and upped my protein over six days and lost 8 pounds without starving or getting off my couch!
So there's food for thought...
It is easy to read, even for a non-scientist (like myself), and contains all the latest research findings of diet and nutrition which may well prompt even a casual reader to adopt a radical change to their daily food habits.
The authors explain the dangers of the Western diet in which refined carbohydrates have disproportionally supplanted our protein and vegetable intake to a frightening degree over the past century, prompting the explosion in obesity and Type 2 diabetes which the medical profession is now struggling to reverse.
Following the tips contained in this excellent book, I lowered my carbohydrate intake to 10% and upped my protein over six days and lost 8 pounds without starving or getting off my couch!
So there's food for thought...
102 of 107 people found the following review helpful
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This is a high level analysis of the health benefits of low carbohydrate eating. It is not primarily a diet plan to lose weight, but an explanation of all the benefits of sticking to a maximum of 72 grams of carbohydrate a day. Though Drs Allan and Lutz have written for the non specialist reader, the book is complicated to follow in all its detail. However, those who stick at it may well find it persuasive, as I did, in the arguments and research to which it appeals. Low Carbohydrate appears to have remarkable health benefits for avoiding or improving Diabetes, Heart Disease, Gastro Intestinal Disorders and even Cancer. There is an easy to follow everyday plan for units of 12 grams of carbohydrate which the authors term "Bread Units". Six of these a day and you have your carbohydrate maximum. There is a chart as an appendix which is a whole lot easier than the average carb counter booklet. This is an ideal book for those completing a low carb diet who want to understand its medical benefits and carry on cutting the sugars for life. A handy book also to give your doctor, should your physician have any doubts about the science involved!
35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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This book covers a lot of ground that other books have already covered, and makes a persuasive case for low carb dieting. But there are two areas where it sheds new insight that isn't available elsewhere, as far as I know.
Lutz himself has been treating a number of ailments with low carb diets for forty years or so, and has a vast reservoir of experience and data, much of which is shared here.
Furthermore, the book is candid about the fact that low carb dieting is not for everyone. Those over 45 and/or female may not benefit so much from the diet.
The arguments for low carb dieting are well made and realistically put.
It's the best book on low carb I've read.
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Useful book, highly recommended
This was a very useful book in getting an understanding of why a high carbohydrate diet that we have adopted in modern times is slowly hurting our health in many different... Read more
Published 13 days ago by Brett S
Misleading!
This book Contradicts itself! It is supposed a high protien/fat diet-which it is in the first few pages. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Karen
covers wider ground than most low-carb books
The authors are clearly highly knowledgeable about low carbohydrate lifestyles. They cover the usual ground plus much more, since this is not a book about weightloss but about... Read more
Published on 17 April 2010 by D&D
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Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life a must for all persons who are looking to extend their life without the normal hardships of a total change of... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2010 by Mr. Anthony D. Piers
Bread, what bread?
We all love something tasty and scrumptius I am sure you'll agre BUT, in finding what an individual is 'hung up' over, its usualy BREAD of an undisirable nature, one that we have... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2010 by P. Mitchell
Low Carb Diet book review
This book is a good read. It has a lot of great information about why some people should eat a low carb diet and to do so. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2009 by Te4t0n
life without bread
So the big question about life without bread is does it work,dieting is a multi-million pound business, can the answer to slimming be that simple!
well yes it is! Read more
well yes it is! Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2009 by Dusty Miller
A useful introduction for the neophyte.
To anyone approaching this subject for the first occasion then undoubtedly this book will prove to be a useful primer, but, to those who have an inkling of the subject they may... Read more
Published on 11 April 2002 by Robert Park
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