PROTEIN POWER: The high protein/low carbohydrate way to lose weight, feel fit, and boost your health

Have been eating low carb since January 2013 and have lost weight easily! Am now on my desired and ideal body weight and have been maintaining this for past few months with ease! I have a collection of low carb diet books and I must say this is a very detailed book on the science of the diet! It has a bit more explanations to the advantages of the low carb way and it gave me more information to that in other low carb books including atkins! It can be somewhat too technical for one to use it as a first and only source to start the diet! It needs you to do a few calculations and can leave you confused. I am good at maths but for dietary purposes could not be bothered with the calculations! Good book though but get another title like atkins or other so that you can easily get satrted!

Useful details if you want to dig into this subject and change your lifestyle. If you are just looking to lose weight I would read the ‘the truth about lo carb diets’ too as this doesn’t tell you about what will happen if you fall off your diet.

This is a good diet, you certainly lose weight. However you have to do some calculations to determine how much you can eat and these can be a bit complicated. The carb tables are not always clear to understand so although there is a weeks worth of recipes already set out with values calculated you do need to go it on your own eventually. I did it for 4 weeks but found it had too little veg for me with the obvious unpleasant result. I am not prepared to live on laxatives so have returned to Dr. Michael Mosleys blood sugar diet. Similar principle but more sustainable.

Literally changed my life. Cannot thank the authors enough.If theirs one book on the low carbohydrate way of life that I'd recommend its this.I also loved other books such as Bulletproof diet (which involves a lot of marketing) and books by Tim Noakes. But this book beats them all hands down!

Berry informative

A super guide to protein eating whether you're eating keto, Dukan, Paelo or low GI very informative

It is the real thing. it works.

This is my second copy as I gave the first away to a friend who needed a guide to understand high protein diets.

My friend told me about this book & said it was the only diet she's gone on that made any sense! She has lost 30 lbs. to date. Loves her new self & I will be trying it come the New Year!

Wonderful book with predictable results

A tese central do livro é que a maioria dos problemas metabólicos (alteração do colesterol, do triglicérides, da glicemia, obesidade etc) são causados pelo excesso de insulina. Esta, por sua vez, pode ser controlada somente através da dieta, uma vez que não existe medicamento para isso.Os autores defendem que a dieta rica em proteínas e restrita em carboidratos é a mais indicada para controlar a insulina, daí o título "Protein Power". Apesar da fundamentação científica, discordo neste aspecto. O ser humano pode adaptar-se a qualquer dieta que não seja processada/industrializada: a evidência disso é que existem vegetarianos, veganos, adeptos da dieta paleolítica, da cetogênica etc muito saudáveis e vivem por bastante tempo. Por outro lado, independentemente da dieta adotada, se comermos demais teremos problemas, uma vez que o corpo será obrigado a produzir mais insulina para converter o alimento em energia e para "guardar" o excesso. Daí o acerto da tese central do livro: a necessidade de se reduzir os níveis de insulina.

Wirklich lesenswert wenn man einen Low Card Lebensstil angehen möchte. Alles zum medizinischen Vorteile wird super erklärt und es beinhaltet auch viele Rezeptideen.

Este libro pertenece a la corriente existente hoy en día dentro del fitness, nutrición y salud que aboga por restringir los hidratos de carbono, desmentir las maldades de las grasas saturadas y promover lo que llaman "la dieta natural del ser humano", conocida ahora por paleodieta, aunque el libro está escrito en los noventa, muchos años antes de este nuevo hype. De hecho la palabra paleodieta no aparece en el libro.Explica paso a paso cómo contruir una dieta baja en hidratos de carbono, con tres fases: la primera o más restrictiva, la de transición, en la que aumentan algo los hidratos permitidos, y la de mantenimiento. También explica cómo calcular el requerimiento adecuado de proteínas para cada persona basándose en su masa magra, y da consejos, trucos y ejemplos para la dieta. Pero no sólo eso, también explica las razones por las cuales los autores, un matrimonio de médicos experto en nutrición, piensan que esta dieta y no otras es la solución a las enfermedades de la vida moderna: hipertensión, dislipidemia y diabetes. Esta dieta ataca de raíz la causa de todos esos males, lo que ellos llaman la auténtica cabeza de la Hydra: la hiperinsulinemia, o los niveles crónicos altos de insulina que muchos sufrimos debido a la alimentación del mundo moderno occidental, tan rica en hidratos de carbono, y pobre en proteínas.Es un libro que enseña a cada página, imprescindible para todo aquel interesado en nutrición, entrenadores personales, médicos o simples curiosos en el tema.