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Summary: The Last Diet Book You Will Ever Need to Buy
Review: Thank Heavens that Dr. Mercola has created the 'No-Grain Diet' that refines and transforms to a higher level some of the work so diligently pursued by Dr. Atkins during his lifetime. This book should be required reading for med students and practicing physicians. In fact, I predict that they will be his next targeted audience, because we, his patients out here in the hinterlands, are already convinced. The diet works!This highly exceptional doctor and team of therapists have helped me save my life, and at last he has written a dynamic book to reach the rest of the world! The tone is crisp, bright, and all inclusive (he doesn't miss not one fact that you will need to successfully execute this plan). I know this for sure, because for 12 months I have lived and practiced the 'No Grain Diet', as well as the other techniques mentioned in the book. As a result, I have regained my physical, emotional, and spiritual health. I am no longer insulin-dependent after 25 years, have lost 70 pounds as a bonus, and experiencing what I call the 'windows of joy and passion' for life once again. I will live this plan the rest of my life! This is truly the LAST diet book you will ever need to buy.
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Summary: A Healthier, Better Atkins
Review: Dr. Mercola has created a diet program that works, and is actually healthy for you. This book helped me lose weight and enjoy life more. I cannot recommend it highly enough! And the recipes are delicious and easy-to-follow.
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Summary: Fun Recipes
Review: Loved the recipes for walnut pancakes, walnut muffins and bread. Am trying the sweet potato chips tonight. There are recipes in this book I have never seen before that keep the no grain diet interesting. I am now making hummus, and see how easy it is. Thanks Dr. Mercola. I like the idea that he lets you decide how to handle the diet according to your needs. I have tons of allergies, and am now sleeping better because grain allergies aren't keeping me awake. I am finding that when emotional cravings for sweet food come up, and I can have good food on hand, that not only can I get by the craving, the emotional issues begins to heal. I see them dropping with the diet without even using the Emotional Freedom Technique. That was surprising to me.
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Summary: Beyond Atkins
Review: Not only have I read the book but I have been lucky enough to visit Dr. Mercola's Optimal Wellness Center and meet him. I had just accomplished losing almost 70 lbs. with the diet program by Dr. Robert Atkins. My health had dramatically improved after just 3 days on the Atkins diet! However, even after losing almost 70 lbs. within the first year, I was still not completely satisfied with my overall health. Seeing Dr. Mercola gave me new insight and explanation as to how following Atkins alone falls short. Dr. Mercola's plan is much more strict than Dr. Atkins' approach and it can be very difficult for people in certain areas to obtain the organic and/or grass-fed food sources Mercola recommends (although you can now find much of what you need through his web site store). So, starting a weight loss journey with Atkins and working up to Dr. Mercola's plan like I did may be an easier option for some. Just never lose sight of the true goal... optimal health. That is where Dr. Mercola's plan will take you. Dr. Mercola is an extraordinary man who proves he really cares about helping others through education - not high priced pills. I highly recommend his book and his newsletter. There is no health newsletter out there that gives you more information for the bargain basement price of $0. Thanks Dr. Mercola!
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Summary: unrealistic
Review: I think the book is good and although I am not a physician, I trust what he is saying in the book, just find it unrealistic. My day is full. I look for time to just plain relax. How am I suppose to follow these restrictive diets and cook or eat plenty of vegetables when time is of the essence? Until this country adopts vegetables as a necessary option (in fast food restaurants for example) these diets are unrealistic. At least for me. Personally, I find it easier to exercise three times a week and try to eat as healthy as possible. But the diet recommended in this book is for either people with enough time on their hands or people with plenty of money to eat at restaurants with healthy food. Dr. Mercola may be a good physician but he is unrealistic in his views. He also promotes a no vaccine policy. Is this a good idea? Makes me wonder...
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Summary: Don't be put off by the sample menu plans
Review: I'm a big fan of Dr. Mercola, and I was quite pleased when his book finally came out. Most of the material is not new since it's available in his website, but it's easier to access now since it's all in one spot. The one thing I was really disappointed with was the sample menus for the first three days. Unless you love to cook, you will be quite dismayed when you see it. You are supposed to eat small meals every two hours for the first three days, but no sooner are you done eating one meal then it's time to start cooking the next. Nothing on the menu is grab & go, so to speak. While I agree that eating "real" food is the healthiest, I think that Dr. Mercola grossly underestimates how difficult it is for people to change their cooking and shopping habits. Let's face it, most people don't really cook from scratch anymore. Most meals consist of whatever can be thrown together in 20 minutes or less with minimal thought and preparation. Suddenly you're being asked to cook completely new dishes with new ingredients, lots of veggies with added prep time, etc. Let's not forget additional time preparing a grocery list and shopping since you're completely changing your shopping habits. Don't get me wrong, these are very necessary changes, but most people can't accomplish them overnight. When you read the sample menus, don't be put off. If you don't have time to cook all those meals, then substitute. Stick with the recommended food lists, but choose the more familiar items. Make use of a variety of cheeses, fruits, familiar veggies and salads that are portable and quick to prepare. As you get more familiar with the basic priniciples you can gradually get fancier with your meals.
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Summary: this book is wrong
Review: The best book on weight-loss is the time tested, long time best-seller "Fit For Life." Who can live a normal life without grains??
I've tried this diet and felt starved. The fact that Mercola's website sells bad equipment (his so-called greatest juicer for one), also doesn't sit right by me.
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Summary: No Pizza. No Beer. No Fun
Review: You may lose weight following this diet. But, at what cost? No Pizza. No Beer. No fun.
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Summary: Discover your inner carnivore
Review: We knew it was coming. Only a matter of time until the awful demons of our aberrant agrarian civilization were all stripped away. Back to Planet of the Apes for us deluded humans. Dr. Mercola would have us go back, way back, to an era that precedes such modern habits as sowing seeds of grains and planting rice paddies. His simple solution for good health: stop eating grains, starches, and sweets. Throw away those high tech protein bars and embrace the hidden hunter-gatherer within. Oh for those Paleolithic days of yore. Haven't we all been waiting for the diet that allows all the kale and kohlrabi we can eat? Just imagine your diet as a combination of T-Rex and Tricerotops, or lion and elephant. You've got it. This could be the next big thing, following close on the heels of the Sears/Atkins revolution advocating high protein diets. Dr. Mercola has evolved a new system, light years beyond the Zone and avoiding the dangers of the Atkins meat program. In order to enter Mercola's universe, you must give up grains for life, or at least for two months. After that time you may eat a few tablespoons of oats or rice. Grains and other starchy foods, like potatoes, stimulate way too much insulin production, which we all know by now is like poison to the notion of staying slim. Mercola has the answer to the obesity plague of the Western world ' forget wheat, and live on meat and vegetables. He prefers his vegetables raw thank you, or lightly steamed if you prefer. And don't try to sneak in any carrots ' way too much sugar. By the way, no sweets, added sugar, fruit juice, or alcohol. Mercola offers three possible eating plans depending on how sick, obese, or Spartan you are. Take your health quiz and then take your pick of the levels of deprivation, from the fairly lenient (you can still eat fruit) to the absolutely pure, ostrich, buffalo, and vegetable juices. The common denominator? You guessed it, no grains. He recommends the strict regimen for anyone with high blood pressure, diabetes, elevated cholesterol, autoimmune disease, or a lot of extra pounds to shed. The book includes menu plans, recipes, and loads of encouraging examples of Mercola's patients who have recovered their health on the No-Grain program. It's an easy read because there is not much to do. No calorie counting, no fat gram calculations, no carbohydrate to protein ratios, just meat, veges, and little fruit. Try it, you too could return those thrilling days of yesteryear when organic meat roamed the plains and green leafy vegetables call to us with their scrumptious message of pleasure.
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Summary: Beyond Atkins
Review: I want to thank Dr. Mercola for taking the Atkins diet to the next level. This diet is healthier, simpler to follow, and easier to stay on. You're not hungry, you feel nourished, and don't miss grains very much at all. The book's also nicely written, with a feeling of real intelligence and sound science behind it. I think that anyone who liked Atkins will love Mercola.
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