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The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger | 
 enlarge | Authors: Diana Schwarzbein, Nancy Deville
Publisher: HCI
Category: Book
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Edition: 1
Pages: 380
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1558746803
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9781558746800
ASIN: 1558746803
Publication Date: May 1, 1999
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From her work with insulin-resistant patients with Type II diabetes, Dr. Schwarzbein concludes that low-fat diets cause heart attacks, eating fat makes you lose body fat, and it's important to eat high-cholesterol foods every day. Picture cardiologists and dieticians tearing their hair out and overweight people cheering as they dive into Eggs Benedict with sausage. According to Schwarzbein, the high-carbohydrate, low-fat, moderate-protein diet that most dieticians and disease-prevention organizations recommend is the culprit that turns people into diabetics, makes them age faster and get degenerative diseases, and keeps them fat and unhealthy. She supports her theory with case studies of people who were sick and miserable on high-carbo, low-fat diets and who sprang to life when they "balanced" their diets with more fat and protein. Schwarzbein recommends avoiding "man-made carbohydrates"--processed carbs--in favor of those you could "pick, gather or milk." She instructs patients to eat "as much good fat as their body needs": eggs, avocados, flaxseed oil, butter, mayonnaise, and olive oil. Sorry, but fried foods and hydrogenated fats are "bad fats," or "damaged fats," as Schwarzbein calls them. You can eat as many eggs a day as you want on this plan, plus meat (even sausage--as long as it's nitrate-free--and pate), saturated fat, cream, and nonstarchy vegetables. The book includes a four-week meal plan and about 15 recipes.
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The latest evolution in health and fitness, the unique, proven "Schwarzbein Principle" will revolutionalize the way millions of people look at eating, losing weight, and maintaining optimal health.
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 A common sense approach to nutrition December 5, 2008
John Cain (Mesa, AZ USA)
What impresses me so much about this book is how much sense it makes. The author's clear reasoning, scientific basis for what she says, and clear writing is what made me change my diet.
The author is an M.D. who formulated this program based on her experience in treating diabetics. She also had her own history in her youth of eating a lot of candy, which caused her many problems - she devotes a chapter to describing that experience.
It is obvious from her writing that she is not against carbohydrates, just that they should be eaten in moderation and that they should come from "real" sources, like vegetables. They should not be consumed from man-made sources such as donuts and ice cream.
She also states very convincingly that stimulants, like coffee, should also be left alone because they cause insulin levels to spike.
The author is in favor of a balanced diet of proteins, fats, and, in moderation, carbohydrates. This is what make sense to me. That is the way man ate before so many foods were overly processed, and before our country had such a problem with obesity, diabetes, and heart problems. Eating too many carbohydrates, as the author shows, causes insulin resistance, which in turn contributes to these problems and more.
Very Satisfied November 11, 2008
M. Roe (Forked River, NJ USA)
I was happy with my purchase an it end up being cheaper by purchasing on this wed
This book, not the others April 5, 2008
S. frank (NC US)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I actually got this for a friend - I wouldn't part with mine. What I like about this is that there's no counting. You look at your plate and understand what your body will do when you eat it. While I don't agree with everything (good luck taking away my coffee and beer), the principle is sound. Like all diet plans, take what works for you and merge it with the rest of your knowledge to create a balanced diet that works for you.
I did get a few of the later books, and got the feeling that the publisher found out there was money to be made. Not much new in the cookbooks.
 Very straightforward message March 31, 2008
L. Dreyer (Palmerston North, New Zealand)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has a very straightforward message. The message essentially is that too much carbohydrates, refined sugar, gluten and alcohol is the real culprits in terms of poor health/disease and weight gain and not so much meat and fat. The second message is that you need oils and that meat and fat are good sources of oil. Main idea is that man-made carbohydrates like artifical sweetners, wheat and gluten cause elevated insulin reactions and low glucagon levels which lead to storage of fat and will over time will result in insulin resistance, inflammatory reactions and autoimune disease. The book basically recommends that you eliminate refined sugar and man-made sweetners and carbohydrates and that you should increase your intake of essential oils. I am a vegetarian and lost 18 kg in 4 months essentaily following the advice in this book namely eliminating all bread, strarch, gluten, alcohol and refined sugar in my diet. I eat meat once a week but do eat lots of seeds, flaxeed oil and, tofu. The book in my opinion overemphasize the idea that you should eat animal fat and meat but do state that meat eating is not the only way to ensure adequate intake of fats, protein and oils.
The book to start with; Easy to follow! March 28, 2008
Klyde (Yakima, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent program and has helped me to feel better and lose weight on a diet I can maintain. It combines the best of low carb diets with lots of vegetables and some healthy carbs like fruits and grains. This book explains her program in a clear and concise way unlike its successors. I highly recommend The Schwarzbein Principle Cookbook as well.
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