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People were taught to regard sugary cereals, which bore the American Heart Association's seal
of approval, as health food, along with bread, pasta, bagels. We were taught to
shrink in terror from a steak or lamb chops. The low-fat craze-in vogue for two decades significantly lowered the percentage of fat in the American diet but simultaneously resulted in a
massive increase in carbohydrate consumption.
Nor did the reduction in fat intake mean people
were eating more vegetables; instead, it was refined carbohydrates, sugar and flour. Such
quintessential junk foods had become the staple of American cuisine.
I hope you agree with me that if you wanted to create a nation of fat, tired, unhealthy people,
this would be the perfect dietary plan. Every year, the statistics poured in confirming that the
obesity rates were escalating. And even more frightening, the number of diabetics worldwide has
escalated. As I will show you, all too often,often, the flip side flip side of the coin of being overweight is having
diabetes.
These twin epidemics, obesity and diabetes, were clearly the result of the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet that was being preached to the public as gospel. The same groups that
championed low fat denigrated the controlled carbohydrate nutritional approach-which was the
very answer to these epidemics-as exceedingly harmful.
Now that millions of people have switched from the low-fat fiasco to the controlled
carbohydrate lifestyle, a growing number of them are learning with certainty the degree to which
they have been blatantly misinformed.
I'll wager that there has never been another example in
modern medicine of propaganda of such magnitude than the statements made by those
worshipping the low-fat dogma.
Let me give you a few examples taken from the dozens of untruths designed to keep you from
making the health-promoting change to a controlled carbohydrate nutritional approach. First,
Thousands of these low-fat fanatics have claimed that a high-protein diet would impair kidney
function. Yet, I have never seen or heard a single accuser provide a single example of a single
case in which that happened. This is one of the many examples of untruths fashioned out of the
whole cloth.
Another example is an idea so fixed that not even overwhelming evidence can change some
people's minds. I'm speaking of the belief that eating the controlled carbohydrate way will create
cholesterol problems. The truth, as you will learn from reading this book, is that every one of a
score of studies on eating regimens low enough in carbohydrates to produce the desired shift to
stored fat as the primary energy source showed a significant improvement in cholesterol and
triglycerides.
Yes, there was a single exception, one in which cholesterol levels rose
insignificantly after the subjects were told not to take their vitamins. This is one of the many
examples of untruths being peril accusers don't read the scientific literature.
As you read this book, you will be informed, and, I expect, taken aback by the magnitude of
the misinformation that stands behind our society's staggering increase in rates of diabetes and
obesity. This propaganda campaign and the severity of the twin epidemics changed my focus on
what I wanted this edition of the book to accomplish. I want so many millions of people to overcome obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and all the other medical
conditions aggravated by excessive carbohydrates that all the leaders of the medical profession
recognize controlled carbohydrate eating as the treatment of choice for optimum health.
I probably will never again have to write a book that was as defiant and controversial as the
first edition of this one was. What you hold in your hands is a thoroughly rewritten version of
that work. Having listened with care to the people who followed my weight control program, I've
clarified and improved the "do-ability" of the practical chapters of this book. I've added many recent case histories recent case histories* and a horde of improved recipes. Finally, I've incorporated
information on the recent upsurge of scientific evidence. We had it right ten years ago, but now
we have twice as much research to confirm the nutritional approach championed by the New the New Diet
Revolution.
Weight loss? Now you can't avoid it. You've bought this book, haven't you? Health? Don't
forget, the carbohydrate controlled nutritional approach is a major part of the teaching of
complementary medicine, and this medicine is focused on restoring ideal health, no matter what
the cause.
Lose weight! Increase energy! Look great! This book will show you how it's done.
Not only that, it will show you how to change your life once and for all.
You hold in your hands a book that has soldover over over over ten million copies since 1992.
Probably
two to three times that number of people have followed its teachings. Most of you will have
heard people say it's the most effective weight loss plan they've tried. It is!
If you're like many people, you've been through the weight loss wars. Name it and you've
probably tried it, whether it's a low-fat diet,
a food-combining diet, the grapefruit diet, liquid
fasts, other fad diets and on and on. You've learned how to count calories, but ultimately with no
success. Even if you lost weight, you were often hungry and always felt deprived. Then when
you went back to your old way of eating, those pounds crept back, often joined by a few more.
If this scenario sounds all too familiar, I have a solution that will help end the game of Yo-Yoo-Yo
dieting once and for all. Instead, I'll help you adopt a permanent way of eating that:
• lets you lose weight without counting calories.
• makes you feel and look better.
• naturally re-energizes you.
• keeps lost pounds off forever with a new lifetime nutritional approach that includes richrich foods.
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