Beyond the Zone

This guy might be on the nerdy side, but he gives you the sources for what he says is fact, not his opinion. I have been reading alternative health books from many different authors for 40 years and none have done the research this guy has. The info has made me healthier and slimmer in the last 9 months without trying. When you eat the right foods, you don't get cravings for binges, so it's not about dieting, it's about getting healthy. I'm convinced!

Exposing the carbohydrate poisoning of America over the last 30 years, this book has allowed me to develop the energy and overall well-being to quit a vitamin program. Very similar to Atkins. June 2002 Consumer Reports article grudgingly admitted that patients on a high protein diet as recommended here lost more weight without worsening their cholestrol scores, than did patients on a low fat diet (who lost very little weight). This book well worth the effort to get it!

Peskin takes the conventional "healthy" high-carbohydrate diet and blows it out of the water. Largely because of its effect on the hormones insulin and glucagon, he convincingly demonstrates how eating too much of this macronutrient has contributed significantly to America's epidemic of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity.The author stresses a diet with plenty of high quality protein, essential fatty acids (EFA's), and low in carbohydrates - especially processed.Peskin's arguments are based on, and well supported with a myriad of references and footnotes to scientific documents. My one big criticism of the book is that he tries much too hard to trademark the science, and repeatedly peddles his own brand of supplements, which gives the book an "infomercial" feel to it.Still, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about eating healthy and willing to set popular opinion aside.

Excellent book - I highly recommend it.