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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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I got this book on a recommendation. I had low thyroid type symptoms and just couldn't seem to lose weight, despite exercising and trying to eat heathily. I also felt really tired all the time.
However thanks to following the 5 very simple rules in this book, the weight feels like it is falling off me without my having to starve myself and I feel great - loads of energy, skin looks great etc. It is fairly early days but I really feel like I have struck gold with this book. Thank you so much Richard and Mary!!
Not just a book for weight loss by the way, it is a must for all those looking to improve their general health and well being.
However thanks to following the 5 very simple rules in this book, the weight feels like it is falling off me without my having to starve myself and I feel great - loads of energy, skin looks great etc. It is fairly early days but I really feel like I have struck gold with this book. Thank you so much Richard and Mary!!
Not just a book for weight loss by the way, it is a must for all those looking to improve their general health and well being.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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If, like myself, having read numerous books about dieting, it will be found that this book is simply the same old theme based this time on leptin rather than insulin. There are three parts to the book but the second part is all that requires to be read and this could be reduced further for those who lead a busy life to the chapter summaries. The five rules mentioned could easily be encapsulated in one short sentence; don't eat between meals nor after dinner; end of story! Its premise is still that of low-carbohydrate dieting. The remainder is padding! To those not so well versed in dietetics then it should prove to be a useful primer and a worthy read.
PS This is an addendum to my earlier submission. Now into my fourth day on this dietary method and, interestingly, it works! My weight, which had been steady for some months has, today, dropped by over 3 lbs and already I am beginning to have that feel-good factor back into my life again. Staying with the diet takes a bit of discipline especially the bit about not snacking between meals and it is actually more difficult than it sounds! The best part about it is one can take larger meals and with one exception eat almost anything that one chooses. An interesting dietary method indeed!
PPS Having reached my 6th day on the diet the weight loss seems to have stabilised although it is too early to make any sound judgement about this feature. What I have found is that my BP has dropped from around 120/70 to 111/65 and my blood sugar level has also dropped by a reading of 9 on the meter. As my BS level tends to be constantly high and around the prediabetic level or above this drop in unusual. Whether those improvements are coincidental, I am unable to say. The only change to the food I eat is that I take slightly larger meals and a larger amount of carbohydrates (but never too many). I now find it easier to manage the diet. It should also be added that as a regular sufferer of (almost continual) nocturnal cramp that since being on the diet this problem no longer troubles me; interesting!
PS This is an addendum to my earlier submission. Now into my fourth day on this dietary method and, interestingly, it works! My weight, which had been steady for some months has, today, dropped by over 3 lbs and already I am beginning to have that feel-good factor back into my life again. Staying with the diet takes a bit of discipline especially the bit about not snacking between meals and it is actually more difficult than it sounds! The best part about it is one can take larger meals and with one exception eat almost anything that one chooses. An interesting dietary method indeed!
PPS Having reached my 6th day on the diet the weight loss seems to have stabilised although it is too early to make any sound judgement about this feature. What I have found is that my BP has dropped from around 120/70 to 111/65 and my blood sugar level has also dropped by a reading of 9 on the meter. As my BS level tends to be constantly high and around the prediabetic level or above this drop in unusual. Whether those improvements are coincidental, I am unable to say. The only change to the food I eat is that I take slightly larger meals and a larger amount of carbohydrates (but never too many). I now find it easier to manage the diet. It should also be added that as a regular sufferer of (almost continual) nocturnal cramp that since being on the diet this problem no longer troubles me; interesting!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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The author has a ton of technical information, yet seems to draw some weak conclusions; it's like he can't see the forest from the trees. The best example of this, and the worst part of the book imo, is when he shows a graph of what happens when you don't eat more than three times a day... just as things start to look good he adds another meal to mess things up again. The fact that he thinks eating "only" three times a day is a form of meal control that will magically solve everything reveals just how out of he is with the rest of the world non-nutritionist world. This is because he was taught that eating 6 meals/day was the optimal way to eat and he somehow thinks everyone has the dedication to eat this way... news flash: most people already eat 3x/day or less, this isn't going to help. We've fat reserves and an amino acid pool that can last us 2-3 days before eating our muscles, why not tell people to eat 1x/day in a large meal or a small eating window of a few hours like the promoters of intermitten fasting do? (or to eat 2 days' worth of protein, calories every other day) - this along with eating as few carbs as possible may even extend your lifespan if emerging studies are to be believed.
Another way he plays it too safe is to arbitrarily dismisses low carb/ketogenic diets because his inadequate government food pyramid-approved nutrionitist training said so. Wouldn't want to rock the boat and upset all your misguided nutritionist friends, now would we?
He also identifies the leptin-stress-insulin connection yet completely ignores insulin and acts as if it's all about the leptin; here's a hint: if someone has low-grade hyperinsulinaemia, from genetics and eating an evolutionnary inappropriate amount of carbs, just enough to keep the fat in fat cells from circulating in the blood, guess what happens when their enlarged fat cells secrete more leptin to tell your brain they need to lose fat? Nothing. The brain can tell your body to burn as much as it wants, and in the presence of elevated insulin fat cells can make all the leptin they want but nothing will happen except gradual leptin desensitization/resistance. To add insult to injury, your body will secrete large amounts of adrenaline to temporarily raise blood sugar levels when your sugar/carb metabolism starts to break down and you begin to experience reactive hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) as part of the viscious cycle of hyperglycaemia (too much blood sugar), insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia (elevated insulin levels) that makes us fat and, based on our genes, can ultimately give us Type II Diabetes.
Unless an overweight person eat meals of raw fructose 12x / day chances are they're insulin resistant not leptin resitant, especially when you consider that we modern humans eat way too many carbs, especially the hepatoxic fructose sugar that slows down your liver's ability to respond to dangerously elevated glucose. (The average hunter-gatherer only ate about 80 grams of digestible carbs/day) - this isn't even mentioning eating plant-based foods whose chemical defenses we've never adapted to properly (i.e. grains, soy/legumes), or our messed-up Omega-6:3 ratios...
If you want some good information don't buy this book, go look at blogs on paleolithic/evolution-based nutrition (which won't cost you anything), and go read Gary Taubes' DD
On the plus side, he does provide a lot of technical information... too bad he can't get beyond his basic nutritionist training, which is based on dangerously outdated government-mandated dietary guidelines
Another way he plays it too safe is to arbitrarily dismisses low carb/ketogenic diets because his inadequate government food pyramid-approved nutrionitist training said so. Wouldn't want to rock the boat and upset all your misguided nutritionist friends, now would we?
He also identifies the leptin-stress-insulin connection yet completely ignores insulin and acts as if it's all about the leptin; here's a hint: if someone has low-grade hyperinsulinaemia, from genetics and eating an evolutionnary inappropriate amount of carbs, just enough to keep the fat in fat cells from circulating in the blood, guess what happens when their enlarged fat cells secrete more leptin to tell your brain they need to lose fat? Nothing. The brain can tell your body to burn as much as it wants, and in the presence of elevated insulin fat cells can make all the leptin they want but nothing will happen except gradual leptin desensitization/resistance. To add insult to injury, your body will secrete large amounts of adrenaline to temporarily raise blood sugar levels when your sugar/carb metabolism starts to break down and you begin to experience reactive hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) as part of the viscious cycle of hyperglycaemia (too much blood sugar), insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia (elevated insulin levels) that makes us fat and, based on our genes, can ultimately give us Type II Diabetes.
Unless an overweight person eat meals of raw fructose 12x / day chances are they're insulin resistant not leptin resitant, especially when you consider that we modern humans eat way too many carbs, especially the hepatoxic fructose sugar that slows down your liver's ability to respond to dangerously elevated glucose. (The average hunter-gatherer only ate about 80 grams of digestible carbs/day) - this isn't even mentioning eating plant-based foods whose chemical defenses we've never adapted to properly (i.e. grains, soy/legumes), or our messed-up Omega-6:3 ratios...
If you want some good information don't buy this book, go look at blogs on paleolithic/evolution-based nutrition (which won't cost you anything), and go read Gary Taubes' DD
On the plus side, he does provide a lot of technical information... too bad he can't get beyond his basic nutritionist training, which is based on dangerously outdated government-mandated dietary guidelines
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my view of mastering leptin
Loved this book, lots of scientific information on how the body works and why we should be eating 3 meals per day instead of permanently snacking and grazing on food. Read more
Published 13 days ago by wendy
Very disappointing.
I read this book, and followed the principles for 4 weeks, and did not get on with it at all. I didn't lose any weight, and I found that waiting 5 hours between meals left me... Read more
Published 14 months ago by mojo
The correct way to eat
The book opens your eyes to the whole concept of controlling your weight. The book will change my life. Not, so much what I eat, but when I eat. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2009 by Mr. J. Garrett
A very informative and valuable book
I bought this bacause I had never heard of Leptin and was curious. I wasn't disappointed, it provided me with a valuable insite into my own health. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2005 by Nicki Penaluna
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