Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! (Paperback)

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If smoked salmon and cream cheese omelets, sautéed jumbo shrimp, and double-patty burgers suit your palate, belly up to the Protein Power diet: "Not a high protein diet" but "an adequate protein diet." Doctors Michael R. and Mary Dan Eades make a persuasive case in favor of "the diet we were meant to eat."

Similar to Dr. Robert Atkins's New Diet Revolution, the authors cite insulin as the main culprit in weight gain and expound the benefits of a diet extremely low in carbohydrates. Carbohydrates, which are changed into sugar during digestion, stimulate the body to store fat, making weight loss virtually impossible. The most revolutionary idea put forth in Protein Power is that the fat you eat has very little bearing on the fat you gain: in other words, we aren't what we eat after all. Researchers have found that eating larger portions of protein in conjunction with severely reduced portions of carbohydrates causes people to burn the excess fat stored in their bodies.

Protein Power is packed with helpful charts and formulas, so you can estimate your body-fat percentage and your ideal weight for your particular body composition. There are worksheets to calculate your protein need and carbohydrate and protein equivalency charts, as well as charts that allow you to track your fat and weight loss. But this book is not all grams and percentages: it also shows you what a day of eating on this diet would look like and includes sample menus and 70 pages of recipes. If you've been starving yourself for years and just can't seem to lose weight, this may be the diet for you. --Jhana Bach

From Publishers Weekly

The Eades, who share a weight-loss and family-medicine practice in Arkansas, have each written a popular medical book?his is Thin So Fast; hers, The Doctor's Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals. In their first shared volume, they turn popular weight-management beliefs?and the latest FDA food-guide pyramid?upside down. For years, overweight Americans have been counseled to turn away from meat and fat and embrace a high-carbohydrate diet. Joining a growing band of researchers that includes Barry Sears (The Zone), the Eades discuss the biochemical roles of hormones in the metabolic process to demonstrate why low-fat, high-carb programs don't always result in weight loss and present a convincing case for their high-protein, low-carb alternative. The key is preventing, through diet, overproduction of insulin, which itself "controls the storage of fat" and is triggered by the ingestion of carbohydrates. Their eating plan?which is bolstered by lists of protein and carbohydrate counts for common foods, a collection of about 75 appealing recipes and discussion of the necessity of exercise?will lead, they aver, to the body's more efficent burning of fat, leading in turn to reduction in one's percentage of body fat. Cholesterol, vitamins, minerals and various risk factors are also discussed. Chapters end with fairly complete summaries that will be appreciated by readers who are not willing or able to work through the fairly extensive scientific data cited by the Eades in this iconoclastic program.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 429 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books; 1st edition (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553574752
• ISBN-13: 978-0553574753
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (451 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #109,263 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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190 of 191 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eades and Eades have changed my life ---- forever!, July 25, 2000

By	Larry E. (Valley Forge, PA USA) - See all my reviews

Dec 2008: I just came across this review and reread it. It is 8 years later and it is still all true. I have had to fight with my weight (I absolutely love to eat) and have had to remind myself that calories count as well. The news is that even after 8 years my glucose tests (A1C blood test) come back excellent, my cholesterol is still at the same levels and my weight is not quite as great as 8 years ago but it is still way better than 220 (I am at 180). I owe the continued improvement in my health to the premises in this book.

July 2000: The past ten years have been hell. I had high cholesterol, high triglycerides and Diabetes, Type II. I was totally unable to get my weight to a reasonable level. I was dieting, exercising, riding a bike 5 days a week, and doing everything I was told, but my weight hit a wall at 224 pounds.

I discovered Protein Power, read it and gave it a try. In only 8 weeks I had lost inches from my waist and dropped 20 pounds. Today, after 1.5 years I am in the best health of my life, I weigh 170 lbs, I have stopped taking the Lipator. My blood tests show that my cholesterol, triglycerides and sugar levels are all perfect.

The results are exactly what the authors predicted - control the Insulin enemy through diet and the body will clean itself up and function properly. They presented me an easy to understand explanation of what happens inside my body and how to control it. They gave me a life style and eating regimen I can maintain the rest of my life. My advice to you is buy it, try it and live longer and better with it. It is simple!

117 of 119 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Measured Results, November 24, 1999

By	William Duffy (Colorado Springs, Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! (Hardcover)

I am an Engineering Manager working for a well known measurement company. As such, I have access to blood chemistry measurement equipment and I've used it to document results.

I've used this approach to eating for 18 months and I'd like to share the measured results. I am 49 years old and I am 6'4" tall. My weight has gone from 260 to 208. My blood pressure has dropped from 140/90 to 106/60. My Total Cholesterol has dropped from 217 to 174; my LDL is 127 mg/dl, my HDL is 50 mg/dl and my triglycerides are down to 78 mg/dl. These are all within healthy ranges. For those who believe that this way of eating is unhealthy I ask, what else should I measure?

Try this out; it may save your life!

150 of 155 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never enjoyed dieting so much!, February 18, 2000

By	B. Randall "BRWombat" (Plano, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have followed the "Protein Power" plan for over 11weeks now, and have actually ENJOYED being on it! How many otherdiets can you say that about? In addition to not being hungry, I just can't feel "deprived" when I'm eating such good stuff and the weight is dropping off so fast. (I have lost over EIGHT INCHES off my waist in those 11 weeks, while eating chicken, eggs, steak, fish, cheese, & butter!)

As you can tell from the other reviews here, this plan works for most, if not all, who try it. (It seems like the few reviewers who didn't like this book either didn't understand it, or didn't follow what it said and then wondered why they didn't lose weight.)

The Drs. Eades do a great job of explaining not just WHAT works, but HOW and WHY it works, convincing even a skeptic like me. Their combination of scientific, historical & anecdotal evidence for their "adequate" protein/low carb diet will change the way you view how you and society at large eats. (BTW, some have suggested this plan doesn't work for people with blood type A -- not true. I'm type A pos.)

Oh, and if you're wondering, no, I am NOT a shill for authors of this book. If I were, I'd be pushing people to their website where they sell the plan for $150.00. This book contains everything you need! What a bargain! If, like me, you have struggled with weight all your life, it will be the best money you've ever spent.