The Good Carbohydrate Revolution

by Terry Shintani

Book Overview

Forget everything you've learned about low-carb and carb-free diets! A SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN BREAKTHROUGH IN NUTRITIONAL WEIGHT-LOSS RESEARCH THAT CAN HELP YOU TO LOSE WEIGHT AND CONTROL YOUR BLOOD... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743405986
• ISBN13: 9780743405980
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

Truely masterful. Dr. Shintani clarifies the importance of the whole foods plant based diet that is so protective of chronic disease. Whole grains, fruits, legumes and vegetables make up the majority of your recommended intake with sensible exercise of 40 minutes. I've tried his program and lost 14 lbs in 12 days. I feel great. This book is strongly recommended

Great book

This is a great book. Great review about nutrition. You don't have to take it as a diet, but as a nutritional approach. After reading it, you will know what kind of foods are better for your body and for preventing and, helping treat some diseases that come from High-fat high-protein diet, the american diet. I used to have a really bad relationship with food, always hungry, gaining weight, feeling tired. Now, I have much more energy, wake up earlier, and i feel great, I don't feel bloated at all, like I did before, and believe it or not, diet has to do with much more than weight, like the overal health of your body, and mind, mood, etc. A good recommendation.

this is one of the best

montignac diet(eat yourself slim) and this books r the best for healthy losing weight, hi p[rotein diets are very bad, if u do atkins u will darker and bad, humans are meant to eat carbs

Excellent presentation on carbohydrate nutrition

This book is very good. It does an excellent job of presenting a range of nutritional information on carbohydrate metabolism, the role of insulin in health, and misconceptions about the relative contributions of fat, protein and carbohydrates to health and disease. The author's critique of the glycemic index is also paramount. Many contemporary authors simply accept the index uncritically without describing its limits and usefulness. Terry Shintani brings critical awareness to interpreting the glycemic index and help in making basic food choices. The text could be improved by adding more a discussion on the role of essential fatty acids and how we are to obtain them on a high carbohydrate diet.

Helpful Advice for Many People!

Think of this book as a combination of Dr. Dean Ornish's book, "Eat More, Weigh Less, " "Sugar Busters!," and "Turn Off the Fat Genes" based on the latest research for controlling insulin levels, cholesterol, fat, and weight. One of the strengths of the book is that the eating plan is quite flexible in terms of what you eat, when and how much. You are also given instructions for how to adjust your eating depending on how much animal protein and dairy products you choose to consume. Another strength is that the recipes take some pretty mundane sounding dishes and turn them into much tastier (and healthy) versions. As someone who is very interested in Dr. Peter D'Adamo's work on blood types, I noticed that the advice here will fit those with type A blood very well, type B blood reasonably well, and type O blood less well. If you combine the perspectives of this book and Live Right 4 Your Type, I think you will have greatly improved your health, weight, and sense of well-being. What's the down side? Well, you will have to buy and eat a lot of different foods than you do now. The book does a good job of describing different ways to make the transition. Within a few weeks, your food tastes will change and you will enjoy this diet. I thought the biggest down side was that you'll pretty much have to give up on eating food from most restaurants. So, if you are like me and are often away from home, you'll have to carry food with you that you have prepared in advance. That's a pretty good idea anyway, and something that I have been doing more and more of. But it will be time-consuming, so something else will have to give in your life. Television, perhaps? Or remastered videos of 1950s comedies? I am often asked my estimate of how costly a way of eating will be. I don't think this one will be extremely expensive, unless you decide to gorge only on the most expensive fruits and vegetables. You will save some money because you be eating out less, eating less processed food, and reducing your consumption of meat, poultry and dairy products. If you really like brown rice, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, and nonfat refried beans, your budget will be safe. I happen to like those foods, so I was encouraged. How do we know this works? Well, the advice here has been put in practice by the author for the last 15 years for his patients in Hawaii. The book also draws on important scientific studies of the average results of making changes in diet and exercise. Get the right balance to improve your strength, mood, mind, and body!