Ivor Cummins and Jeffry Gerber have written a book that is both rigorous enough to satisfy the science-minded and approachable enough to nourish those who just want to know what to eat and why!
In the first section (Chapters 1-5), the authors debunk the “bad scientific methods, groupthink, and hubris [that] have created a modern monster” – the carbohydrate laden, low-fat diet, which promised us better health but instead marched lockstep with increases in obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic conditions. After exposing the flawed dietary advice of the last half-century, the authors identify and explore the root causes of our modern maladies and form the rationale for their “Eat Rich, Live Long” program.
Part 2 of the book provides the “nuts and bolts” of how to implement their ideas into everyday life and features enticing, beautifully photographed recipes by master chef, Ryan Turner (author of “Boundless”). Instead of a “one size fits all” formula, their Master Class (Chapter 6) helps you personalize a plan that will work for you, based on how your insulin system functions.
The final section of the book delves deeper into the scientific underpinnings of the program, but that does not mean it’s dry or difficult to read! Explanations are clear and humor is sprinkled liberally through the book. I consider Chapter 10 to be the lynchpin, eloquently detailing the role of insulin in health and weight, while Chapter 11 exposes the truth about the role of fats in one’s diet and body and explodes the misguided cholesterol hypothesis.
The appendices are full of helpful resources and the bibliography alone is worth the price of the book! It’s heartening to see the research on which this book is built and exciting to see the future direction of scientific inquiry in the field.
As a nurse and clinical therapist (RN, LCSW) who assists people in changing their lives, as a Type 2 Diabetic who is totally diet-controlled and at ideal body weight, as the sister of a brother whose cardiologist “never sees people turn things around like this after a heart attack,” I see the results a Low Carbohydrate High Fat way of living all around me.
My recommendations for this book?
Read it, apply it, ENJOY it. (And don’t let the cover fool you – it’s not a cookbook, although it does showcase delicious food)
Give copies to people you especially care about – and their doctors, too!
Pressure healthcare providers AND policy makers to read and act on it.
Regain your health!
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Along with the ten-step program, Eat Rich, Live Long includes more than 50 gourmet-quality low-carb, high-fat recipes and troubleshooting tips and strategies to help you make your new way of eating a success.
Eat Rich, Live Long will change the way you look at eating. You’ll lose weight, look and feel great, and live longer.
Best Exposition of the Scientific Evidence for this Approach for Health and Longevity
Awesome compilation of the science, logic, and evidence of why a real food diet that is nutrient dense, moderate to low in carbs, that eliminates industrial vegetable oils optimizes longevity and health. Looking at diabetes, heart disease and all cause mortality is so much more interesting than the debate that gets lost in the macro weight wars. Ivor is also great at making clear what he knows and doesn't know because the current state of nutrition science sucks.Ivor's online lectures and podcasts have been a big part of me new education over the last 6 months. I bought 30 copies of the book because I am deeply grateful to what I have learned from Ivor. I will give them out to the more logical/scientific friends that may not have come across this thinking yet... though now that I think of it I don't yet have 30 friends. Telling people to quit bread and pasta may not be the best way to make new friends either (we will see). This is also a good book to give to your personal doctors... if you haven't been able to find one that is not still giving advice based on bad science from 30 years ago.To be honest the clinical examples don't do much for me, but they are representative of the kind of real life success that this approach is having and that I have seen to some extent in my own family (reversing high blood pressure in weeks of this approach - which is completely common). The examples do illustrate that this is not purely a theoretical argument.I also have spent no time on the recipes and more practical advice. That part of the book I have already seen done elsewhere in ways that 90% correlated but slightly more aligned with how we eat.
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Por fin, una cuenta completa
Reviewed in Spain on December 19, 2019
