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

Bantam, 1997. Very Good. 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 t o eat." Similar to Dr. Robert Atkins's New Diet Revolution, the authors cite insuli n as the main culprit in weight gain and expound the benefits of a diet ext remely low in carbohydrates. Carbohydrates, which are changed into sugar du ring digestion, stimulate the body to store fat, making weight loss virtual ly impossible. The most revolutionary idea put forth in Protein Power is th at the fat you eat has very little bearing on the fat you gain: in other wo rds, we aren't what we eat after all. Researchers have found that eating la rger portions of protein in conjunction with severely reduced portions of c arbohydrates 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.