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Book Reviews of Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks!

Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks!
Protein Power The HighProtein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight Feel Fit and Boost Your Healthin Just Weeks
Author: Michael R. Eades
ISBN-13: 9780553101836
ISBN-10: 0553101838
Publication Date: 1/1/1996
Pages: 448
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 15 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Hardcover
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24 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on
Helpful Score: 2
The book makes good health sense. We don't need to fill up on starches and sweets. If we balance our meals and include some protein, we don't feel as hungry and our blood sugar stays more even and we aren't tempted to eat so many fattening things and gain weight.

I know. I have tried it. PROTEIN POWER works.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 48 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
useful book for those wanting to learn about low carb diets. this diet, along with Atkins, lowers cholesterol and, as a result, should be somewhat protective against cardiovascular disease. low carb is certainly a good way to lose and maintain weight.
simgirl avatar reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on
Helpful Score: 2
This book has lots of tips on managing blood hormone and sugar levels through appropriate nutrition and diet choices. It even has a section designed to be read by your physician if he/she is skeptical about the approach promoted by the book. A good read.
divinemisscopa avatar reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
After leading other standard "healthy" lifestyles like low fat/high carb vegetarian, vegan, and standard low fat diets, I'd hit a plateau, had some health issues, and was experiencing odd symptoms - arthritis in my hands (and I'm only 25!) and severe digestion problems. I started to realize the high carb lifestyle was a big contributor to my problems.

I started following the advice of the doctors Eades along with other advocates of the Low Carb (and Paleo) lifestyle - Gary Taubes of "Good Calories, Bad Calories", Mark Sisson of "The Primal Blueprint" and Loren Cordain of the Paleo diet.

I'm losing weight, I feel much better, and I've become a serious skeptic about the standard advice of today's dietitians and physicians regarding nutrition. I can't recommend the Protein Power series enough!
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 12 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
My doctor recommended I use this plan, and I was extremely sceptical. 2 months later when I finally opened & read it, it all made sense to me. I started right away and so far have lost 40lbs in 3 months!! I'm sold. :)
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is an excellent source for the person interested in the lowcarb lifestyle. They explain the effect of too many carbs on the body better than any other books I have read.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 115 more book reviews
The authors discuss the biochemical roles of hormones in the metabolic process to demonstrate why low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet programs don`t always result in weight loss. They also present the case for their high-protein, low-carbohydrate alternative. The key is preventing, through diet, the overproduction of insulin, which controls fat storage and is triggered by eating carbohydrates. Their eating plan includes lists of protein and carbohydrate counts for common foods, a collection of recipes, and a discussion of the necessity of exercise. Cholesterol, vitamins, minerals and various risk factors are also covered. Meals include an avocado filed with mayonnaise, hard-boiled eggs, and chicken chunks, a smoked salmon smothered in cream cheese, and a double-patty burger topped with bacon, cheese, and avocado.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 35 more book reviews
This is the 1999 edition of the book. Protein Power presents a diet plan based on low carbohydrate eating. It's less extreme than the Atkins Diet, and I found the writing style less defensive and more scientific. I DID lose weight on this plan. However, it was difficult to stick to, especially since I have two small children who are not low carbing.
CraftyTJ avatar reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 381 more book reviews
Protein Power is packed with helpful charts and formulas, so you can estimate your body-fat percentage and your ideal weight for your particular body composition. There are worksheets to calculate your protein need and carbohydrate and protein equivalency charts, as well as charts that allow you to track your fat and weight loss. But this book is not all grams and percentages: it also shows you what a day of eating on this diet would look like and includes sample menus and 70 pages of recipes. If you've been starving yourself for years and just can't seem to lose weight, this may be the diet for you.
baeb47 avatar reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 207 more book reviews
If you are a big meat-eater, and don't mind skipping the bread and pasta, this may be the diet for you!
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 43 more book reviews
Best and most helpful diet I have ever been on! The only one tht actually worked (and still is)!
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 45 more book reviews
Protein power will teach you how to use food as a tool for dramatic and permanent weight loss, resetting your metabolism and boosting your energy levels; lowering your
bad cholesterol while elevating the good cholesterol; protecting yourself from high blood pressure and heart disease and best of all - Protein Power encourages you to eat the foods you love, including meats (yes,even steaks ,bacon and burgers, cheese and eggs!)
Rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (Science has proven that fat does not make you fat!) PRepare yourself for the most dramatic life-enhancing diet program available today!
nomi avatar reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 31 more book reviews
This is a complete guide to weight loss and improved health by following a high protein low carbohydrate diet. It includes recipes and menus.
CynthiainKCMO avatar reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on
The High Protein, Low Carbohydrate way to loose weight, feel fit and Boost your health in just weeks. Sample menues and recipies, also.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on
Enjoyed the book
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 55 more book reviews
I love how this book explains how the body uses food. Very informative.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 40 more book reviews
More information on the high protein, low carb diets that are popular right now. Gives lots of information.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 8 more book reviews
High protein/low carb weight loss plan.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 4 more book reviews
Protein Power will instruct you on how to use food as a tool for weight loss, resetting your metabolism, boosting your energy levels and lowering your cholesterol.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 151 more book reviews
this book is super. my book cover is the same except background is white and words are red
wss4 avatar reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 389 more book reviews
ANNOTATION
Lose fat. Feel fit. Stop craving. Now, a team of pioneering doctors shows readers how their groundbreaking, protein-rich eating plan succeeds where low-fat diets fail -- to help readers take off weight and achieve optimal health naturally, without counting fat grams or worrying about fat percentages, without giving up favorite foods.
Alameda avatar reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 336 more book reviews
By Dr's Michael R. Eades M.D., and Mary Dan Eades M.D.

High Protein/Low Carb way to lose weight. WIth Menus, receipes, meal planning - the works.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 77 more book reviews
Very helpful in understanding the metabolism of carbs and fats and protein for those of us who like all that detailed information. This is Atkins improved.
reviewed Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! on + 12 more book reviews
This a great book! The High-Protein/Low-Carbohydrate Way to Loose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in just Weeks!

Join the thousands who have experienced dramatic weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and improvement or reversal of the damages of heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and other major diseases by following this medically proven program.

Protein Power will teach you how to use food as a tool for:

-Dramatic and permanent weight loss
-Resetting your metabolism and boosting your energy levels
-Lowering your "bad" cholesterol levels while elevating the "good"
-Protecting yourself from "The deadly diseases of Civilization" (including high blood pressure and heart disease)

And Best of all, Protein Power encourages you to eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon and burgers), cheeses, and eggs.

Rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!)

Stop shocking your body with breads, pastas, and other fat-inducing carbohydrates.