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Zusatztext "The nutritional primer of the nineties." --Barry Sears! author of The Zone Informationen zum Autor Michael R. Eades, M.D., author of Thin So Fast , and Mary Dan Eades, M.D., author of The Doctor's Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals , live in Little Rock, Arkansas, where they practice bariatric (weight loss) and general family medicine. They are the founders of Medi-Stat Medical Centers. Klappentext New York Times Bestseller - An effective, medically sound diet that lets you eat bacon, eggs, steak, even cheese? It's true! Lose fat. Feel fit. Stop craving. Without counting fat grams and without giving up the foods you love. Includes recipes for healthy meals to lose weight. Based on cutting-edge research, this revolutionary and deliciously satisfying plan has already helped thousands of patients lose weight and achieve other lifesaving health benefits, including lower cholesterol and blood pressure readings and an improvement or reversal of common disorders such as heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and gout. Developed by Doctors Michael and Mary Dan Eades, the simple regimen calls for a new way of eating: a protein-rich, moderate-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that will have you feeling better and more energetic within a week, and help correct blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol within three weeks. So if you've been living the low-fat, no-fat way and still haven't lost weight, stop blaming yourself! Instead, turn to the breakthrough metabolic program that replaces lifelong dieting with lifelong health. Chapter 1 A New Nutritional Perspective Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. VOLTAIRE We have a medical book published in 1822 passed down to Michael from his great-grandfather, a country doctor from the Ozark Mountains. A long section deals with yellow fever—in the 1800s no one knew what caused it or how it spread. Now, of course, we understand that the mosquito is the carrier of the virus that causes yellow fever, but then the cause eluded the best minds in medical science. Read what this standard 1822 medical textbook says about yellow fever: “… it rises from the exposure of putrid animal and vegetable substances on the public wharfs … it always begins in the lowest part of a populous mercantile town near the water, and continues here without much affecting the higher parts. It rages most where large quantities of new ground have been made by banking out the rivers for the purpose of constructing wharfs. … the yellow fever is generated by the impure air or vapour which issues from the new-made earth or ground raised on the muddy and filthy bottom of rivers. …” From our contemporary vantage point we want to reach back and tell them, “Look, it’s a mosquito; why can’t you see the big picture?” The medical problems that confound us today will probably amaze scientists in the twenty-first century as they puzzle over why we medical pioneers of today were unable to reach out and grasp the obvious, why we were so advanced in certain areas of medical treatment yet so abysmally deficient in others. Why, they may ask, could our surgeons perform open-heart surgery so skillfully as to make it a routine operation while at the same time our nutritional experts couldn’t determine the optimal diet for preventing most of the problems necessitating that procedure? Why spend so much time and effort developing complex surgical techniques and other wondrous medical procedures that prolong the life of a diseased body for a few months or, at best, a few years instead of focusing on nutritional changes capable of prolonging healthy life for decades? Why can’t we see the big picture? The Failure of the Low-Fat High-Carbohydrate Die...
