- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing; Lrg edition (Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0375431942
- ISBN-13: 978-0375431944
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,021,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The verdict is in: those simple carbohydrates we've been living on are killing us. For good health, we've got to get our blood sugar under control and stop the incessant cravings. Or so says Dr Arthur Agatston, author of The South Beach Diet. The first half of the book details the science behind the diet. Most of the explanations revolve around why things you thought were healthy--orange juice, wholemeal bread, carrots--are actually evil. To avoid blood sugar surges, Agatston created a modified carbohydrate plan, recommending plenty of high-fibre food, lean protein and healthy fat and reducing bread, rice, pasta and fruit. Major differences from other diets include a lack of concern over portion size and a serious indifference to exercise. Feeling full while on a diet is a beautiful thing, but it seems odd that a cardiologist buries his exercise recommendations in a solitary sentence.
The last half of the book covers his three-stage plan; daily diets are mixed with recipes, some of which are from South Beach restaurant chefs. The most restrictive period lasts just two weeks, enough time to stabilise your urges and lose a few pounds; stage two adds fruits and a handful of other carbs, while stage three is meant to last the remainder of your life, with occasional lapses for white bread or birthday cake.
While the diet is sound, the book could be better organised. The first half mixes scientific study with anecdote in a seemingly random way, while the mix of meal plans and recipes can be confusing. Still, the recipes are varied and tasty and you'll never feel deprived, unless you currently happen to live by bread alone. --Jill Lightner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Great food that's good for you--that's the foundation of the South Beach Diet and the reason millions of people around the world have adopted it as their lifelong eating plan, shedding unwanted pounds in the process. Created by leading Miami cardiologist Arthur Agatston, M.D., the diet emphasizes good fats and good carbohydrates, the kind that stave off cravings for unhealthy sugary food and promote long-term weight loss. It's not "diet" food--it's satisfying, flavorful dishes that are good for your health and your waistline.
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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not just another celebrity fad,
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This review is from: The South Beach Diet: A Doctor's Plan for Fast and Lasting Weight Loss (Paperback)
Don't be put off by the name, it's not just another one of those 'nibble a celery stick and you'll be in a bikini in 1 week' diets. This is a serious diet created by a cardiologist (in conjunction with a nutritionist)to help his patients, which happened to also help them lost weght. You have 3 meals a day, snacks in between (hoummus, fruit, peanut butter, nuts etc) but fundamentally are reducing your carb intake. I'm on week 7, have lost 17lbs and loving it. I'd recommend it to anyone provided they are willing to give it a try!
58 of 63 people found the following review helpful:
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Sound Science, Good Lists, Expensive Recipes and Hope!,
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This review is from: The South Beach Diet (Hardcover)
If you have never read a book about healthy eating, you will find The South Beach Diet to be a helpful resource for outlining what we know now about healthy eating. Dr. Agatston is a cardiologist and has made sure that his suggestions will make you more heart healthy. He does a fine job of summarizing what we know about how the body absorbs food and develops healthy and unhealthy reactions. The discussion of insulin resistance syndrome is especially good. In this area, I compared the book to Sugarbusters! and found The South Beach Diet to be more helpful.If you have read many books on dieting, you will probably be most interested in the idea of dropping all high glycemic foods for two weeks as a way to start a diet. The book also has reasonable goals for your diet. The key innovation is to get off essentially all high glycemic carbohydrates for two weeks. This helps your body stop having problems with creating too much insulin too frequently. I thought that approach was a fine innovation. Nice job! The book is less good at providing specific daily diets to follow. The ones in the book look tasty and interesting. They have two drawbacks: Expensive ingredients and lots of preparation time. But they do make the point that you can eat foods that you will enjoy while starting a diet. The book would have benefited from having some daily suggestions that are inexpensive and easier to prepare. You can, of course, just follow the advice of what foods to avoid and probably get similar results. But that will require more imagination in creating new menus that many dieters may find frustrating. One of the strengths of the book is that there are lots of recipes from top chefs so you will certainly get a nouvelle cuisine sense of what can be accomplished from the book. I enjoyed reading those recipes. I still haven't figured out what menu I will follow to try this. But some of the menu items will clearly help me. I liked the extensive advice in the book for how to follow its guidelines while eating in restaurants (including McDonald's). The book is filled with testimonials of people who have had success with the diet over many years. That was encouraging. I thought that the book's main scientific weakness was its lack of reference to the many studies cited in Live Right 4 Your Type about how blood type affects the mix of foods that will help you be most fit and healthy. This diet does seem like one, however, that most Type O eaters could have success with . . . unlike many other popular diets. I had originally avoided the book because I assumed it would be all about how overly thin models who live in South Beach stay that way. That wasn't for me. Actually, the book is more aimed at those who have picked up 30 or more extra pounds and find themselves with a rubber tire where their abs are. In particular, it can be a life saver for those who are starting to become diabetic or have unhealthy signs of developing cardiovascular disease. So it's for the rest of us after all. I haven't read the newer books that Dr. Agatston has published, and it may be that those provide the missing ingredients in this one. If so, you may need to read more than one to get the most from this diet. Whether or not you use this diet, I do hope you will learn the lessons here to avoid high glycemic foods, and saturated and trans fats. Eat delicious foods, look wonderful and feel great!
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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South Beach vs. regular low calorie diet.....and the winner is..........,
This review is from: The South Beach Diet: A Doctor's Plan for Fast and Lasting Weight Loss (Paperback)
This is a diet book whose plan is to get you to lose weight by limiting your carbohydrates- essentially another low-carbohydrate diet. It has 3 phases where your carbohydrates are severely restricted at first, and then re-introduced.
I have personally read three controlled trials comparing low carb diets to your regular calorie restricted diets that were published in scientific journals. The results? Low carb diets produce more weight loss during the first 6 months, but at one year follow-up, both groups had lost THE SAME amount of weight. Therefore, it really doesn't matter which diet plan you choose, the South Beach diet or your standard low calorie diet, because if you can stay on either of them for a year, you'll lose the same amount of weight. To that end, then, the South Beach diet is a fairly healthy diet plan and a good one to choose from- but the bottom line if you want to lose weight is to cut your calories with ANY diet plan and absolutely stick with it and make it a part of your lifestyle. Readers who can't seem to stick with a diet plan long enough to see results might also want to check out The Sixty-Second Motivator. Good luck!
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