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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780966553529
ISBN number: 0966553527
Label: Gateway Press
Manufacturer: Gateway Press
Page Count: 455
Printing Date: December 11, 2001
Publishing house: Gateway Press
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Finally, a weight loss book that not only is enjoyable to read, but is also jam packed with 'how-to-do-it' based on 20 years of clinical practice and obesity research. The No-Amylose Diet (bet you haven't tried it yet) is a fresh approach to a tired subject that usually features some variation on the wrong-headed ideas that 'the way to lose weight is to cut back on calories, avoid fat and get small amounts of exercise regularly.' Sorry, we have tried that approach for years and it just doesn't work. Just look at the maintenance rate for patients who use the 'expert advice.' Less than 10% of patients lose 30 pounds and less than 5% of that group keeps the weight off at 1 year follow-up. That advice is worthless, yet just look at the New Years' resolutions to push away from the table and go for a 30 minute jog. That's no way to lose weight! It won't work for very long.
And it can't. Fat storage is a complex process that is based on genetically controlled insulin levels and the response of insulin to the rate of rise of blood sugar following a meal. The controlling factor on insulin release isn't the number of calories we eat, but the effect of those calories on blood sugar. Foods that turn to sugar (glucose) quickly, like all amylose starches, corn syrup (low-fat foods make us fat), maltodextrins and table sugar (sucrose) set off the insulin fat storage machinery like crazy. Most of us with weight problems really aren't self-indulgent overeaters. Most of us hate our extra weight and wish we could eat like those skinny friends of ours who eat more than we do!
Lose the Weight You Hate takes us seriously, as well as our obesity related health problems. Cholesterol? Boy, have we been sold a bill of goods! Learn what really is going on with cholesterol (Chapters 10 and 11) before you swallow another statin drug that you might not need. How about the CDC talking about the national explosion of diabetes and obesity? They want us to think it is all because of our triple cheeseburgers and fries. Wrong! The chapter (14) on environmental acquisition of diabetes and obesity will knock your socks off. Learn what immune system factors, pro-inflammatory cytokines (yes, it is time to learn the medical terms), do to our insulin receptors (and therefore our insulin storage of the sugar we eat as fat). Look why our environmental exposures are the greatest threat to our waistlines. But there is hope when facts about the health effects of our changing lifestyles and our increasing use of chemicals act as a basis for improved weight control.
Even better, Chapter 13 will show you how an FDA approved medication, Avandia, currently marketed to help treat diabetes, actually is a fantastic weight loss aid in those folks with 'insulin resistance.' In an academic paper, featured at the 83rd Endocrine Society meetings this past June (2001), the author proves that avoiding amylose and adding Avandia gave the most difficult weight loss patients he treats a terrific boost in burning fat. Moreover, look where the ladies lost the weight-their hips! How many patients would like to lose their tummy safely, with a diet that is a new, enjoyable lifestyle not an exercise in self-torture.
Speaking of exercise, if you are like most of us, you don't have the minimum of 12 hours per week (that's right, 12 hours)to sweat off those few pounds. Quit being a masochist! If you want to exercise and have the time, great, have fun. But don't think that walking 3 miles an hour will do anything significant for a jelly roll. It just won't work. With 18 chapters, case studies and 50 enjoyable original recipes mixed in with hard science and an amusing outlook on life and weight loss, Lose the Weight You Hate is worth reading over and over again. 455 pages, index, glossary and appendices and a chapter on Childhood Obesity complete the text.
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Good stuff - bought it for my sister and she likes it.
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This is a well written book with scientific research and insight behind it. We are so different when it comes to weight, how we got it and how best to lose it.
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Resetting genetic expression of insulin and leptin resistence is the treatment most likely to help people lose weight, when diets, exercise, herbals and thyroid hormone have not worked. We all know someone who can not lose weight despite eating low calorie diets and exercising religiously. Hypothyroidism accounts for about 12 percent of the population, yet about 50 percent of Americans are overweight, with about 33 percent, officially obese.
Many officially obese people actually suffer from insulin and leptin resistance. Insulin and leptin levels can be measured in blood samples to test whether they contribute to preventing weight loss. Leptin and Insulin hormone tests can be ordered, by essentially any physician. Although many of the biochemical and hormonal concepts in this book seem very abstract and theoretical, they are real. Florida Detox has measured excess insulin and leptin levels, in overweight patients, while some of our lean patients had very low leptin levels.
Barry Sears, PhD explains how to reduce insulin resistance in the Omega Rx Zone, but Lose the Weight You Hate is one of the few books I am aware of, which explains how to use thiazolidinedione antidiabetic medications to reset genetic expression of insulin and leptin receptors. Shoemakers biochemical approach is solid and scientific, unlike many of the overpromoted weight loss approaches. Shoemaker provides many interesting case histories, which put a human face on the complex biochemical concepts he explains, with impressive clarity. He clearly explains the limited ability of exercise to consume excess calories. His diet is based on what actually occurs biochemically, at the cellular level, as insulin receptors assist transport of glucose molecules through the cell membrane.
The chapters explaining that cholesterol consumption only needs to be reduced in 20 percent of patients, deserve wider publication and increased emphasis. He clearly indicates the tests required to determine whether people need to limit cholesterol consumption. He exposes the fallacy of low calorie, low fat diets and recommends diets which people can actually maintain. The chapter discussing gout causation and treatment was the most informative information, I have encountered discussing gout.
The information concerning the relationship of environmental toxins and obesity is profound. Shoemaker clearly has empathy for overweight people and apparently practices what he preaches.
I think this is the best weight loss book, which almost no one has heard of. I gave this book 4 stars, because it neglected to discuss hypothyroidism, which I feel is essential, for a book with this title.
Steven Sponaugle
Research Director, Florida Detox
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This book answered a lot of questions about why my efforts to lose weight were not working. I have begun putting what I have learned into practice and have already lost 5 lbs!
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I heartily promote reading Dr. Shoemaker's books. I have read his other books as well. He is so down to earth and accurate because of his background in Chemistry. Besides reading his books, I have taken his visual test on line, which proved I had a neurotoxin mediated illness. My weight gain was due to this. Then I fought for months to finally, after 12 years, to get a positive result for Lyme infection. He was too far away to go to for the problem, but my doctor followed his protocol. I also used his little less than $10.00 eye tests to monitor my recovery and also to test the rest of my household, who fortunately had no problem.
His diet and advice are great.
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