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The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good! [Hardcover]

John McDougall , Mary McDougall
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May 8, 2012
A bestselling author’s groundbreaking eating plan that challenges the notion that starch is unhealthy

From Atkins to Dukan, the fear-mongering about carbs over the past few decades has reached a fever pitch; the mere mention of a starch-heavy food is enough to trigger a cavalcade of shame and longing.

In The Starch Solution, bestselling diet doctor and board-certified internist John A. McDougall, MD, and his kitchen-savvy wife, Mary, turn the notion that starch is bad for you on its head. The Starch Solution is based on a simple swap: fueling your body primarily with carbohydrates rather than proteins and fats. This will help you lose weight and prevent a variety of ills.

Fad diets come and go, but Dr. McDougall has been a proponent of the plant-based diet for decades, and his medical credibility is unassailable. He is one of the mainstay experts cited in the bestselling and now seminal China Study—called the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” by the New York Times. But what The China Study lacks is a plan.

Dr. McDougall grounds The Starch Solution in rigorous scientific fact and research, giving readers easy tools to implement these changes into their lifestyle with a 7-Day Quick Start Plan and 100 delicious recipes. This book includes testimonials from among the hundreds Dr. McDougall has received, including people who have lost more than 125 pounds in mere months as well as patients who have conquered lifethreatening illnesses such as diabetes and cardiac ailments.

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Editorial Reviews

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"Dr. John McDougall is on a mission to make us healthier.  Read The Starch Solution.  It may save your life and your brain."
Dennis Bourdette, MD, Chair and Roy and Eulalia Swank Family Research Professor, Department of Neurology

"The Starch Solution is an easy and powerful way to achieve the very best of health. Dr. McDougall’s unparalleled knowledge and experience have brought us the best possible way to help people lose weight, lower their cholesterol and blood pressure, boost their energy, and change their lives."

Neal Barnard, author of the 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart

"You'll be doing the happy dance when you read this book! Hallelujah, and bring on the pasta!"

Kathy Freston, author of The Veganist

"Bold, honest, and ringing with truth, The Starch Solution will show you exactly how to reclaim your health and your life.  Nobody has ever delivered this message so clearly. Dr. John McDougall's latest contribution is destined to become a classic."

Douglas J. Lisle, Ph.D., co-author of The Pleasure Trap

"This maverick physician has a wealth of knowledge that could be the key to a tremendous improvement.  I personally know many people who have found the McDougall program to be the key to vastly improved health for themselves and their families. This book lays it out clearly and without compromise."

John Robbins, author of No Happy Cows, The Food Revolution, and Diet For A New America

"Dr. McDougall and Mary have done it again. The Starch Solution is a thorough and absorbing explanation of the health benefits and nutritional excellence of a plant based diet. In addition to being healthy, the food was delicious and satisfying."

Robert A Rosati, MD, co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Rice Diet Solution

"John McDougall, M.D. has once again produced an outstanding book with recommendations gleaned from his decades of medical experience and strongly supported by the scientific literature.  He has the courage to tell the truth about both the business of medicine, which largely ignores the role of diet , and the forces of evil that sell the promises of  fractionated foods and diet fads.  The information in this book can provide the reader the power needed to lose weight and regain health." 

Alan Goldhamer, Director, TrueNorth Health Center, Co-author of The Pleasure Trap

"The Starch Solution is one of the most important books ever written on healthy eating.  As Dr. McDougall shows us in his book, human beings flourish on starch foods from whole food sources.  When combined with healthy servings of vegetables and fruits we have the perfect diet to prevent and reverse the lifestyle diseases that are now killing 80% of Americans—obesity, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and cancer.  The recipes included in the book are easy and delicious.  The Starch Solution will change your life.  Read it and live it."

John P. Mackey, co-chief Executive Officer and Director, Whole Foods Market, Inc.

"This time the Star McDougaller is John himself joining with Mary in creating a masterfully crafted nutrition guide that destroys harmful myths and enhances the enduring capacity of whole food plant based nutrition as the foundation to our long overdue health revolution."  

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

"Eat all you want; any time you want". Statements that sound too good to be true usually are... too good to be true. But John McDougall's new book "The Starch Solution", richly referenced for science, but gracefully written for consumers, just might be both good and true."

George D Lundberg MD, Editor at Large, MedPage Today; Former Editor in Chief of JAMA., Medscape and eMedicine from WebMD

"Great news! Thank you John! Now we can eat carbs guilt-free and maintain our figures" –Elizabeth Kucinich, Director of Public Affairs for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

"The Starch Solution is a viable approach to solving many health problems including obesity, heart disease, and type-2 diabetes and will have a positive impact on our environment. I highly recommend it."  

Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich

"John McDougall has done it again. This time, clarifying the issue of starches and the important role they play in human nutrition, improving our health and the health of the planet."

Jeff Novick, Vice President for Executive Health Exams International and lectures at the McDougall Program

"The option is pretty simple. Meat and potatoes and later angioplasty and bypass or a plant-based (starch diet) and medicine-less and procedure-less health and happiness. The 12th McDougall book shows the way. It is highly recommended."

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in chief, The American Journal of Cardiology, Executive Director, Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas

"[Dr. McDougall's] new book stands to get him more attention than any of the others. Much of what’s in The Starch Solution, which came out earlier this year, is excellently researched, scientifically-backed…and totally contradictory to what most Americans think they know about food and weight loss."

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About the Author

John A. McDougall , MD, has coauthored many bestselling books with his wife, Mary, and is featured in the documentary and book Fork over Knives. He serves as associate professor at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, CA, and teaches medical students at his clinic in Santa Rosa.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale Books; 1 edition (May 8, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1609613937
  • ISBN-13: 978-1609613938
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (172 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John McDougall, MD, is a medical maverick who challenges medical and pharmaceutical businesses when they prioritize profits over patients. For the past 30 years he has countered mainstream misinformation with the fad-free truth and nutrition and your health.

Dr. McDougall, along with his wife Mary, offers his life-changing approach through national-bestselling books, DVDs, semniars, and the McDougall Live-In Programs in Santa Rosa, CA.

Other books include The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart, The McDougall Plan: 12 Days to Dynamic Health, and The McDougall Program for Women.

Customer Reviews

I would recommend this book to anyone trying the vegan diet, or who wants to be healthy. carolyn lee  |  60 reviewers made a similar statement
Thank you, thank you, thank you Dr and Mary McDougall for this new book. C. Forbes  |  65 reviewers made a similar statement
If you read but one book on nutrition this is the one to read. Butch  |  41 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
234 of 247 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Good, sound science for good, sound health! May 8, 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
My favorite quote from the book sums up Dr. McDougall's philosophy on health, "I have often been asked, "You are a doctor, so why do you speak against the practices of fellow physicians?" The answer is simple: I never took an oath to protect the financial interests of the medical industry." Dr. McDougall dares to to tell us how to become healthy, and therefore put doctors, hospitals, and big pharmaceutical companies out of business!
The book details plant based eating that give you plenty of protein and vitamins, low fat, ZERO cholesterol, and nothing but pure energy. I have been eating this way thanks to Dr. McDougall, Dr. Caldwell Esslestyn, and Dr. T. Colin Campbell after I saw the Forks Over Knives Documentary in June 2011. I have never been healthier or had more energy - probably not even as a kid! I have completely reversed my obesity and type II diabetes and am off all my Metformin, now I am a diet controlled diabetic eating exactly as outlined by Dr. McDougall. I have lost 95 pounds, lowered my total cholesterol from 390 to 170, and am also off my high blood pressure medicine with a bp of 110/70.
The book includes a 7-Day Sure-Start Plan backed up by practical information on how to ready your kitchen, your family, and your life for this change in the way you eat, and includes nearly 100 easy-to-prepare recipes to suit every taste. The Starch Solution is different because it offers a way of eating that keeps you feeling satisfied. You won't feel hungry or deprived, because starches are not only healthy, they're also comforting and filling. This is a plan you can follow indefinitely--even when you stray by not following it 100 percent--and its benefits will be with you for a lifetime.
You owe it to yourself to read this book, and give it a try. You will definitely be glad you did!
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155 of 165 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Want to feel great? Eat some "Starch" May 8, 2012
By MtnMike
Format:Hardcover
Want to lose a few pounds in a couple weeks?
Read a diet book, ANY diet book.
Want to become healthy, lose weight and feel great for life?
Read The Starch Solution.

When a friend or patient asks "where do I begin" This book will be at the top of my recommended reading list. I will tell them to begin their journey with The Starch Solution.

On a chance mountain bike ride, I met a physician that said he could only cure one condition, bacterial infections. The diseases that are so common to our world are only managed. However, he shared, that through nutritional counseling, he is beginning to help people heal themselves.

Rather than preach throughout our ride, he said, "Watch Forks over Knives and read The China Study."

I began there. Then I discovered Dr. McDougall and his wife, Mary. Soon the value of the words I was digesting became crystal clear. My mother was diagnosed with uterine cancer and patients, friends and family began sharing recent medical afflictions. In the four months that I have been on my journey, I have seen one friend die of bladder cancer, another has grade 4 pancreatic cancer.

I am committed to a Starch Solution lifestyle.My cholesterol has dropped 60 points, BMI is 24 and I feel great. The hills I climb on my bike seem shorter. This month I turn 55 and I am loving life.

I believe The Starch Solution is the book Dr. McDougall has always wanted to write. He pulls no punches, is direct, and presents a plain and simple argument for making changes that will promote health. He challenges you but includes enough footnotes and quoted research to satisfy the skeptics, providing ammunition for those scientifically inclined. The personal tales of the "Stars" will make it real for those that want to let their heart guide them to an answer.

Rather than skirting the issue by saying we should eat a "plant strong," or "whole foods" diet that has a "Spectrum" of choices, this book is clear when it states:

"The diet that best prevents disease, best supports the body's innate healing mechanisms, and best promotes sustained weight loss is a low-fat diet based on starches, with added vegetables and fruits, and with no animal products or free oils.

A giant step toward health and spontaneous healing is yours for the taking."

Thank you Dr. John and Mary.
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107 of 118 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Winner! May 8, 2012
Format:Hardcover
Dr. John McDougall has been quietly saving lives for years. A visit to his website, under the category of "Star McDougallers," stories of patients and readers will tell you in their own words, how their lives have been saved eating this kind of diet. Many of them have tried to figure out why so many doctors and so-called health gurus don't give you this painless, cheap alternative to heart surgery, insulin for diabetes, bariatric surgery and fill-in-the-blank surgery and drugs used for preventable diseases.

Dr. McDougall has remained courageous and eloquent in treating patients and truly follows the Hippocratic oath, "Do no harm." More than that, he has brought many patients back from the dead and has inspired a generation of doctors and health care professionals who simply want untainted, unadulterated truth. When you understand, as Dr. McDougall does, that there is no money in broccoli, then you understand why it is so important to seek out doctors like him who are not bought off, bribed or otherwise coerced into handing you a pill or a device in 10 minutes saying, "Call me in the morning."

He and his wife Mary, continue their legendary tradition and trails of delicious recipes which are btw, also way cheaper than a burger, a bypass or bariatrics, no matter who pays for it. Genes don't determine destiny. But you do have to be your own investigative reporter.

--Former 2X Emmy-winning TV investigative reporter for 18 years who almost died of a colon blockage and whose mom, aunt & both sisters had breast cancer. And way more. (Now I place in 5K races, ran 1st marathon 2 years ago-5th oldest female to finish Palm Beaches Marathon. Go figure!)
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent all-in-one brief with theory, stories, and tasty recipes
Someone stopped me once while I was carrying a copy of The Starch Solution. The person said something that indicated she assumed the book was meant to help the reader eat less... Read more
Published 1 day ago by Brian Hoeft
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Book
I love reading books about nutrition/health/weight loss and I am a big fan of Dr. McDougall (I am also a longtime vegan). Read more
Published 3 days ago by kdmamma
5.0 out of 5 stars A diet for people with heart disease (plaque buildup in coronary...
I have been on the diet recommended in this book for 18 months. Along with three workouts per week at the local YMCA I have lost 30 pounds and have significantly reduced... Read more
Published 4 days ago by Ken Kaminski
5.0 out of 5 stars YES!
I finally have found a way to lose weight in a healthy way and not go hungry.. Tried Adkins, calorie counting, and just not eating enough. None of them worked. Read more
Published 8 days ago by DB
5.0 out of 5 stars McDougall The Starch Solution
This book was recommended to my by my doctor and a reference to increase my education of vegitarian diet and nutrition. Read more
Published 8 days ago by Jeannie Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars Starch can be the focus of all my meals? Where is the hidden Camera?...
I have always have loved starches in so many forms and have never connected the dots that perhaps focusing on these are such a healthful way to eat. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Jimdoesvoip
5.0 out of 5 stars I think he has firgured out the human diet
For the longest time I have thought that all the "experts" out there with all their different program cant all be right. Humans must have a basic diet that they do best on. Read more
Published 10 days ago by fanmib
5.0 out of 5 stars Diet works
love both books good information that was hidden for years i highly recommend it and try the diet it works
Published 12 days ago by BARRY C BERNARD
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book!
This book covers so much useful information. From the history of our eating patterns to debunking all the false nutritional information out there, to how to eat to prevent and... Read more
Published 15 days ago by Vegan Newbie
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource
Whether you are a beginner or well versed in low fat vegan cooking you will find both solid research backed nutritional theory and wonderful recipes.highly recommend.
Published 15 days ago by lynn speer
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Can't wait! Just watched Dr. McDougall's Advanced Study weekend videos about the Starch Solution. This promises to be another excellent book.
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