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Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life |  | Authors: Christian B. Allan, Wolfgang Lutz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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ISBN: 0658001701
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Publication Date: July 1, 2000
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 50
 Excellent apologetic for the low-carbohydrate dietary September 4, 2010
Joanne of joanneunleashed-dot-com (Pennsylvania)
For over 40 years we've been told that fats and protein make us fat and cause heart disease. And yet here we are: obese and diabetic, and the cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor is the bestselling drug worldwide generating $12.9 billion annually in sales. So we're told to lower the fat in our diets even more.
The USDA food pyramid encourages us to consume grains, fruits, and vegetables in large quantities, and meat, dairy, and fat in small quantities. Yet this is the opposite of what our ancestors ate prior to the agricultural revolution (excepting dairy) when we were hunter-gatherers. Has our physiology caught up with our ingenuity?
Life Without Bread demonstrates how the human body runs better on fat as an energy source than it does on sugar. Much of the information presented is based on Dr. Lutz's clinical practice over 40 years treating thousands of people with a low-carbohydrate diet. The authors debunk the conclusions of many scientific studies that are based not on the actual results but on their dogged determination to vilify fat despite the facts.
The book provides commentary, charts, and data showing how the low-carbohydrate diet:
* Lowers fasting blood sugar, blood insulin, hemoglobin, blood pressure, uric acid levels, blood cholesterol, and body weight
* Improves glucose tolerance, cardiac abnormalities, and diseases of the colon, such as constipation and diarrhea, diverticulitis, Crohn's, and ulcerative colitis
Also included are chapters on cancer, vitamins, minerals and co-factors, evolution, and how to safely switch to a low-carbohydrate diet.
One fascinating chapter discusses how high-carbohydrates cause production of insulin, an anabolic hormone. As the body seeks balance, it either increases the catabolic hormones (corticosteroids, T3, and T4), or decreases other anabolic hormones (growth factor and sex hormones). For example, decreased growth factor affects the immune system, musculature, cartilage, bones, and arteries.
My favorite chapter described how the body produces energy using either glucose or fat in the production of ATP in the mitochondria. This is the most technical chapter and exciting for those of us who like to understand exactly how things work. Based on this chapter, it's obvious the body makes much better use of fat than glucose, and all without the detrimental effects of excessive insulin production.
I personally lost 18 pounds when I went on a low-carb, paleolithic diet, and muscle aches I had lived with for years vanished, my nails are growing, and I avoid the fluctuations and hunger associated with a high-carbohydrate diet. I highly recommend this book for those who believe the USDA food pyramid is reliable and that fat will make them ill.
An Invaluable Book May 5, 2010
Dana Carpender (Bloomington, IN United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a truly invaluable book. Many people, myself included, have written about low carbohydrate diets from the perspective of our own personal success with them (How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds (Revised and Expanded Edition)), and that of friends. We speak from personal knowledge, and are confident, because of our own tremendously improved health, that carbohydrate restriction is healthful.
But we are not doctors, and the media has spread so much misinformation about low carb that people are afraid. Dr. Atkins was a Cornell-educated cardiologist, and Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades are physicians who have been treating people for obesity for many years. But they have written diet books -- excellent diet books, with very useful information -- but diet books nonetheless, and to much of the population all diet books are suspect, a part of the "diet industry."
Dr. Wolfgang Lutz has written Life Without Bread solely from the perspective of a doctor who has been treating patients for over forty years by carbohydrate-restricted nutrition. He is not a "diet doctor," but a doctor who uses diet. This is not a book touted to make you lose weight, but a serious exploration of the dramatic health benefits of a low carbohydrate diet. Because of that very difference, it will be taken more seriously by many.
And it should be. The studies demonstrating not only the safety but superiority of a low carbohydrate diet over a low fat diet continue to stack up, and will continue to stack up. But so long as people see low carb only as "that fad weight loss diet," they will be vulnerable to the misinformed nonsense the media spews.
Have you been scared away from a low carbohydrate diet by that misinformation? Please, read Life Without Bread.
 Life Without Bread April 29, 2010
Michael Hedlesky
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book starts out with a overly simplistic explanation of the effects of carbohydrate consumption on the human body but then progresses into a lot of really interesting histories of actual patients and their diseases and how they were treated with low carbohydrate diets. It paints a compelling argument for controlling carbohydrate intake.
Easy and delicious way to long and healthy life March 15, 2010
Health Reader (Illinois, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
LWB is a great read. You learn how the body works and a delicious way to feed it to stay healthy and live longer. It's easy and simple and an eye opener. It's one of my health bibles now. I had to give it some time because I used to low carb many years ago until brainwashed by the low fat media. Then I was a low fat eater, eating lots of carbs and gaining weight and losing health in the process. But now it is as if my body thanks me every time I eat. For some, great results happen quickly. But for others, it may take many months for the body to adjust. It's as if it's unbelieving that you are giving it what it needs. You may not see results as quickly as you would like and that is explained why in the book. But note that your insides are healing even if you don't see it on the outside at first. I think this is how nature intended us to nourish our bodies. Once you get over your bad carb shopping and cooking habits, it's easy and simple. One more note, it's difficult to find good, rich butter. I suggest shopping at a health food store or buying it online. Same with eggs and meat if possible.
this book saved my life (not hyperbole) February 20, 2010
bookloverFLA (south of Sarasota FL)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
These two authors deserve the Nobel Prize for bringing this science to the attention of the public and me specifically. I have had ulcerative colitis (UC) for almost 10 years with no remission and condition getting worse over the years. Conventional medicine says there is no cure and treats ONLY with prescription drugs.
I have been a good patient for that whole time, taking what was prescribed, with never any improvement, just deterioration.
Thankfully through an online support group I heard about this book. I had already begun some diet modification using SCD diet principles but it was not quite enough of a modification for me. Removing all carbohydrates from my diet was extremely difficult, in fact the authors of this book recommend eating more than I do currently, but after 6 weeks and incredible improvement I can say without question that carbohydrates are the root of my illness.
I have often wondered why my grandparents, country people, could eat eggs, butter, bacon, ham etc and live long lives. Their son, my father just died, after many years of ill health at an earlier age.
This country is in deep trouble with rampant obesity, diabetes and multitudes of ailments. If only this information was made standard knowledge we could solve our health care crisis. These are real doctors with real scientific background for their principles. Why has none of my doctors ever told me to at least try this diet?
Perhaps it is better for them that I remain their patient year after year. It certainly suits the pharmaceutical companies, my Rx costs a LOT.
I have never been so positive about a book and how it can improve a person's life without drugs. Buy this book. It's not easy for a non-scientist (like me) to read but I got the basic idea. Cut out carbohydrates and get healthier.
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