Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low-Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health--in Just Weeks! - Softcover

Michael R. Eades; Mary Dan Eades

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553380788 ISBN 13: 9780553380781

Publisher: Bantam, 1999

Synopsis

Join the thousands who have experienced dramatic weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and improvement or reversal of the damages of heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and other major diseases by following this medically proven program.

Protein Power will teach you how to use food as a tool for

· Dramatic and permanent weight loss
· Resetting your metabolism and boosting your energy levels
· Lowering your “bad” cholesterol levels while elevating the “good”
· Protecting yourself from “The Deadly Diseases of Civilization” (including high blood pressure and heart disease)

And best of all, Protein Power encourages you to

· Eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon, and burgers), cheeses, and eggs
· Rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!)
· Stop shocking your body with breads, pastas, and other fat-inducing carbohydrates

So prepare yourself for the most dramatic life-enhancing diet program available!

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Review

If smoked salmon and cream cheese omelets, sautéed jumbo shrimp, and double-patty burgers suit your palate, belly up to the Protein Power diet: "Not a high protein diet" but "an adequate protein diet." Doctors Michael R. and Mary Dan Eades make a persuasive case in favor of "the diet we were meant to eat."

Similar to Dr. Robert Atkins's New Diet Revolution, the authors cite insulin as the main culprit in weight gain and expound the benefits of a diet extremely low in carbohydrates. Carbohydrates, which are changed into sugar during digestion, stimulate the body to store fat, making weight loss virtually impossible. The most revolutionary idea put forth in Protein Power is that the fat you eat has very little bearing on the fat you gain: in other words, we aren't what we eat after all. Researchers have found that eating larger portions of protein in conjunction with severely reduced portions of carbohydrates causes people to burn the excess fat stored in their bodies.

Protein Power is packed with helpful charts and formulas, so you can estimate your body-fat percentage and your ideal weight for your particular body composition. There are worksheets to calculate your protein need and carbohydrate and protein equivalency charts, as well as charts that allow you to track your fat and weight loss. But this book is not all grams and percentages: it also shows you what a day of eating on this diet would look like and includes sample menus and 70 pages of recipes. If you've been starving yourself for years and just can't seem to lose weight, this may be the diet for you. --Jhana Bach

From the Back Cover

"The nutritional primer of the nineties."
--Barry Sears, author of The Zone

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0553380788
• ISBN 13: 9780553380781
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 429