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Dr. Cohens New Hippocratic Diet Guide

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I hate diets. Suffering and deprivation is not something I do well. After being diagnosed with severe sleep apnea, it was clear the extra weight had to go. Bariatric surgery was not an option I would consider, soooo what to do ? I was advised that Dr Cohen was advocating a low carbohydrate diet that goes beyond popular diets such as Atkins. The alternative serious weight loss programs in town were expensive calorie based programs that wanted me to buy thier expensive diet food. Suffering and going broke seemed a bad idea. I chose Dr Cohen and his diet which is published in this book. It is a serious, scientific, yet practical approach that makes sense and is easy to both monitor and execute. In approximately 18 months I lost 112 lb and I am still losing. I am never hungry. You can test easily with ketone strips to see if your body is in the fat burning mode and adjust accordingly. It helps to eliminate temptations around the house.

I have read every diet book out there for many years, searching for answers. I finally found my answers and a diet that works in Dr. Cohen's book! Well written, easy to read and understand. Best of all, it works!

Reading through this "diet guide" from Dr. Irving A. Cohen certainly reminded me of when I was reading Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution which promoted a high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carbohydrate nutritional approach. And while Dr. Cohen promotes eating healthy high-fat, low-carb foods in his plan, he dismisses the Atkins low-carb diet because it put the emphasis on protein.

With all due respect, the Atkins diet does not do this. Contrary to popular belief in most media accounts and from so-called health "experts" in their description of the low-carb lifestyle, it is not and never has been a "high-protein" diet. At best, you can call it a moderate and even low-protein nutritional approach. More accurately, it is high in dietary fat which is very similar to the method of eating outlined in Dr. Cohen's book.

I wish for once people who comment about low-carb diets would at least do the minimal research activity of reading the book first before assuming they know what it is all about. Overall, this book is outstanding for anyone wishing to follow an effective high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. I'll just have to forgive Dr. Cohen for his haphazardness on what the Atkins diet is.