Atkins and Low Carb Weight Loss
Book: "Good Calories, Bad Calories"
I am reading Gary Taubes book "Good Calories, Bad Calories." If you really want to know the science behind why eating low-carb helps you maintain a healthy weight, read this book. It goes into extensive scientific detail and provides many ethnographic studies that show how communities of people, many times Native Americans, experienced astronomic obesity rates when they moved from a no to low-carb native diet made up principally of protein to the Western diet of sugar, starches and refined carbohydrates.
Last night I watched a lecture Taubes gave, which is a synopsis of his book. It's over an hour, but it's well worth the time: http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/ims-lecture-with-slides-and-qa-why-we-get-fat-by-gary-taubes/8971.
If "Good Calories, Bad Calories" is too dense/scientific for you, Taubes just published a new book "Why We Get Fat" that provides a lighter version of his first book.
Last night I watched a lecture Taubes gave, which is a synopsis of his book. It's over an hour, but it's well worth the time: http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/ims-lecture-with-slides-and-qa-why-we-get-fat-by-gary-taubes/8971.
If "Good Calories, Bad Calories" is too dense/scientific for you, Taubes just published a new book "Why We Get Fat" that provides a lighter version of his first book.
This looks great -- I have put it on my "hold" list at the library and am waiting for it to come!
Interested in low-carb nutrition? Thinking of trying Atkins? Want to try high-fat and/or high-protein eating? Whether or not you have had (or are thinking about) WLS http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/atkins/
