The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flour-Free Eating [Paperback]

Keith Wayne Berkowitz M.D. (Author), Shelly Vaughan James (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2010 | Series: The Complete Idiot's Guide

A healthy choice ... includes more than 125 recipes.

The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Flour-Free Eating has all the information readers need to easily and comfortably get on, and stick to, a healthier eating plan. It explains to readers what they can eat and what they should avoid, including important guidance on how to identify hidden flour in processed foods and how to stay flour free while eating out. Readers get advice on incorporating into the diet whole grains, nuts, beans, and other flour alternatives the body will love.

* Includes more than 125 flour- and sugar-free recipes

* Labels the more than 100 recipes that are gluten-free

* Diabetes now affects over 18 million Americans, and since flour = sugar, eliminating flour is a must to help combat this and other illnesses

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Alpha (June 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1615640274
• ISBN-13: 978-1615640270
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Shelly Vaughan James has enjoyed a smorgasbord of opportunities. Her food features have appeared in numerous national publications. Shelly served as editor of Home Cooking magazine; she also held the editorship of Recipe Digest magazine. In her syndicated food column "Serving Up Midwest Memories," Shelly shared her passion for the foods she grew up eating in southeastern Ohio. Shelly is an author of several Complete Idiot's Guides cookbooks and has provided expert spots on television and radio programming.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars healthy baking at it's finest, December 29, 2011

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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flour-Free Eating (Paperback)

I picked this up at my library and was pleasantly surprised at what it contained. So

much so that I had to have my very own copy! I know I will be making many items

out of this book. I am eating gluten free and this is a helpful addition to my

new way of eating.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Truly Healthy Recipes That Skip The Insulin-Spiking Flour And Sugar, December 4, 2011

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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flour-Free Eating (Paperback)

For decades in the United States, we have been led to believe that all of the health and weight woes people have been suffering with is a direct result of their consumption of one thing--dietary fat. But we are now discovering that assumption was dead wrong as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more have all gotten worse. How can this be? Well, you never hear about this in mainstream health reporting, but when they removed the fat from our diet they replaced it with something even more detrimental--carbohydrates!

Dr. Keith Berkowitz, one of the leading physicians in America using low-carb diets to help his patients get optimally healthy, says it's American staple foods like white flour and sugar that spike blood sugar and insulin levels that have led us down this path to destroying our health. But the good news is you can still eat amazingly healthy and delicious foods by going flour-free and sugar-free as he outlines in this awesome book!

The only thing I was disappointed about in this book is the use of "fat-free milk," "fat-free yogurt," orange juice, bananas, raisins, and other high-carb, low-fat foods in his recipes after he railed against them at the beginning of the book. Unfortunately, this is probably something the "Complete Idiot's Guide" publisher forced Dr. Berkowitz to do which is such a shame. The recipes would do just fine using real heavy cream, full-fat sour cream, and skip the high-carb fruits by using low-glycemic ones like berries instead. While this book attempts to shift the paradigm of healthy eating, in the end it just continues to perpetuate it.