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Lose the Weight You Hate

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I heartily promote reading Dr. Shoemaker's books. I have read his other books as well. He is so down to earth and accurate because of his background in Chemistry. Besides reading his books, I have taken his visual test on line, which proved I had a neurotoxin mediated illness. My weight gain was due to this. Then I fought for months to finally, after 12 years, to get a positive result for Lyme infection. He was too far away to go to for the problem, but my doctor followed his protocol. I also used his little less than $10.00 eye tests to monitor my recovery and also to test the rest of my household, who fortunately had no problem.

His diet and advice are great.

Full of original recipes, case studies and packed with chapters of new material, this book dares to actually give the reader the facts needed to make sense out of the media-spin dominated world that obscures the truth about the genetic basis of weight loss, maintenance, cholesterol, exercise, fiber, gout and other topics. This book will be your trusted guide to a new lifestyle (don't call it a diet) that emphasizes good food, prepared with gusto and served with style.
This book is a refreshing, reader-friendly look at the biochemistry of fat manufacture through the eyes of a primary care physician trained in molecular biology that leads to an approach to weight loss that works. Learn about the importance of the No-Amylose diet to lose weight and to keep it off.

Resetting genetic expression of insulin and leptin resistence is the treatment most likely to help people lose weight, when diets, exercise, herbals and thyroid hormone have not worked. We all know someone who can not lose weight despite eating low calorie diets and exercising religiously. Hypothyroidism accounts for about 12 percent of the population, yet about 50 percent of Americans are overweight, with about 33 percent, officially obese.

Many officially obese people actually suffer from insulin and leptin resistance. Insulin, adiponectin and leptin levels can be measured in blood samples to test whether they contribute to preventing weight loss. Leptin and Insulin hormone tests can be ordered, by essentially any physician. Although many of the biochemical and hormonal concepts in this book seem very abstract and theoretical, they are real. Florida Detox has measured excess insulin and leptin levels, in overweight patients, while some of our lean patients had very low leptin levels.

Barry Sears, PhD explains how to reduce insulin resistance in the Omega Rx Zone, but Lose the Weight You Hate is one of the few books I am aware of, which explains how to use thiazolidinedione antidiabetic medications to reset genetic expression of insulin and leptin receptors. Avandia, one of the medications recommended may be removed from the market, due to side effects. Herbals, including Polygonum cuspidatum, may be able to partially produce similar results, without the side effects. Shoemakers biochemical approach is solid and scientific, unlike many of the overpromoted weight loss approaches.

Shoemaker provides many interesting case histories, which put a human face on the complex biochemical concepts he explains, with impressive clarity. He clearly explains the limited ability of exercise to consume excess calories. His diet is based on what actually occurs biochemically, at the cellular level, as insulin receptors assist transport of glucose molecules through the cell membrane.

The chapters explaining that cholesterol consumption only needs to be reduced in 20 percent of patients, deserve wider publication and increased emphasis. He clearly indicates the tests required to determine whether people need to limit cholesterol consumption. He exposes the fallacy of low calorie, low fat diets and recommends diets which people can actually maintain.

The chapter discussing gout causation and treatment was the most informative information, I have encountered discussing gout.

The information concerning the relationship of environmental toxins and obesity is profound. Shoemaker clearly has empathy for overweight people and apparently practices what he preaches.

I think this is the best weight loss book, which almost no one has heard of. I gave this book 4 stars, because it neglected to discuss hypothyroidism, which I feel is essential, for a book with this title.

This book also neglects to discuss or evaluate any herbal weight loss aids.

Steven Sponaugle

This book answered a lot of questions about why my efforts to lose weight were not working. I have begun putting what I have learned into practice and have already lost 5 lbs!

Amazon should make it very clear these are used and charge accordingly. I could have gotten new one for. I don't care to see someone else's highlighting.

I now understand why my body works like it does. This book explains very well how hormones and sugars effect people differently.

Good stuff - bought it for my sister and she likes it.

This is a well written book with scientific research and insight behind it. We are so different when it comes to weight, how we got it and how best to lose it.