Low Carb in the UK

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Diet Plans

	Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution (DANDR) by Robert C. Atkins. The Plan I personally started out with (with a lot of help from my LC friends!). This book made perfect sense to me when I read it, (you know that "click, lightbulb" feeling) and is perhaps the best known of all the low-carb plans. Dr Atkins wasn't the "original pusher" of the Low-Carb Ketogenic diet, but he was the one that got famous from pushing it. This one is not the best read on the Planet, Dr A is no wordsmith (although I have heard that the latest edition is far better editied), after all, You don't expect your Doctor to be able to write a book now do you! However, this is where 99% of LC dieters start the Journey, just because Dr A is the Most well known.
	Eat Fat, Get Thin!(EFGT) by Barry Groves. Now, This one is a straight "Low natural Carbs for Vitamins and Minerals, High Good Fats for energy and Hormone building, Adiquate amounts of Good animal Protein for body building, with no BDK" style diet. A 60g a day plan, using the "no processed" foods trends that work so well with LC. Barry is also firmly against getting too stressed over carb limits. This is the Book I recommend to all first time low-carbers in the UK, as the book is written for the UK market, (as Barry lives in Oxford) and you don't need a "translation manual" to make the plan work for you! I have met Barry, and I must say that he is the best advert for an LC diet ever! It also helps that Barry is a member of the main LCUK mailing list, so if you have any questions, you can just come and ask!
	Protein Power Lifeplan (PPLP) by Drs. Michael R. Eades & Mary Dan Eades. Fully upgraded, and an easer read than Their original book, The Eades present groundbreaking new information, admit that they made a few mistakes in their first book, and provide a more rounded guide to their dietary approch. Recommend this one 100%!
	Protein Power (PP) by Drs. Michael R. Eades & Mary Dan Eades. The emphasis here is on Protein intake, if you hadn't guessed. This is a more Medical take on a low-carb diet, with less emphasis on Fat. It has some doody equations for calcutaing your percentage body fat, and is really a must read if you are following a ketogenic plan, although the Eades themselves lay little emphasis on ketosis themselves. I include it here still, as I think it is worth reading, although I would recommend that you buy PPLP first, and then if you are inclinded to, go back and get PP.
	Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution : A Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars By Dr Richard K. Bernstein. If you are Diabetic, you HAVE to read this book. No arguments, go and buy it now! Why? Dr B was Born in 1938, and developed Type I diabetes when he was 12. HE spent the next 20 odd years living in the Treatment that his diabetologist gave him, deteriorating as "normally" as a type I diabetes patient does. Richard got fed up of this, and with being sick and weak all the time and having a life expectancy that would not take him much beyond 40, so he rebelled against the medical system. His doctors told him that blood sugar control in Humans was impossible, but he chose not to believe this, and so, being a Mechanical Enginneer, he set out logically trying to find an Answer. Needless to say he did, and then went and trained as a Doctor so that he could share his Answer with all the other diabetics in the world. He is 68 now, and still going strong. He has few Diabetic complications, and is living a healthy normal life, as are ALL of his patients. IMO This book is THE seminal work on Diabetes, and is well worth a read even if you are not a diabetic. I just hope that its wisdon soon spreads to the American and British Diabetes associations.
	How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! by Dana Carpenter. I am SOOO happy that Amazon.co.uk have started to sell this book again. I think it is a peach of a book. A Plan Sumary book, it is well written, and offers so much good advice it is untrue. IF you want to buy a book that will give you an idea of what LC is all about, this is it!
	Living Low-Carb : The Complete Guide to Long-Term Low-Carb Dieting by Fran McCullough. Fran wrote one of the first, and much aclaimed low-carb cookbooks. This book is a basic Plan Summary book. She gives advice on how to follow each type of plan, what vits to take, stall buster advice etc. The book is mostly recipes though, which I think is rather a swizz, as if you already have her LC cookbook , you have most of the recipes published here. Nowhere near as good a Dana Carpenters work, but still useful to have, if you don't already own the cookbook.
	The Secret to Low Carb Success! by Laura Richard. This is a brand new plan summary book, freshly published end of Jan 2002. When I get a copy, I will let you all know on it!
	Feed Your Kids Well : How to Help Your Child Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Fred Pescatore. I have not read this one, but it is Atkins Principles for the children. Dr Pescatore works at the Atkins Center in NY.
	The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet (CAD) by Drs Raechel & Richard F. Heller. This is another of the three wellknown ones. I have not read it, but the principles are sound to me!
	The Carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program : A Personalized Plan for Becoming Slim, Fit and Healthy in Your 40s, 50s, 60s and Beyond (CALP) by Drs Raechel & Richard F. Heller. An extension to the original CAD plan.
	Carbohydrate-Addicted Kids : Help Your Child or Teen Break Free of Junk Food and Sugar Cravings-For Life by Drs. Rachael & Richard F. Heller. The CAD plan for Children. As Children require more carbs than Adults, The Hellers have written a Plan to suit their nutricional needs.
	Neanderthin : Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body by Ray Audette, Michael R. Eades and Troy Gilchrist. Ray had Chronic Arthritis, and when conventional medicene wasn't helping he went searching for another answer. This book is it. Ray theorises that in evolutionary terms, our bodies are still in the stone age. As our digestive processes have not evolved to cope with a modern diet filled with refinded sugars and chemicals, he took what he was eating back to basics, ie what we were eating when we became "Homo Sapiens". This plan has a lot of fans, I admit leanings towards it myself!
	The Schwarzbein Principle : The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger by Diana Schwarzbein and Nancy Deville. Diana's book is about BALANCE. Balancing your meals so that the energy you put in (She still thinks that you need Carbs for Energy, not Fat, She thinks fat is for building Hormones and other bodily stuff exclusively) and the insulin you put out is actually what you require and not excessive. There is a LOT of merit in this book, but she is very anti Stimulants of any kind, and just has to say it every third page. I was getting very fed up of it by chaper 7, but the rest of the information makes up for this in spades. .
	Sugar Busters! - Cut Sugar to Trim Fat by Leighton Stewart. The title says it all here, cut the sugar out. Also, get rid of refinded foods, and junk, but much more lenient on wholegrains etc. I know people that have had large amounts of sucess with this one, when they couldn't get on with the "austerity" of NDR or PP. Each to their own, that is why there are so many plans!
	Greenwich Diet: Lose Fat While Gaining New Health and Wellness by Carlon M. Colker M.D. Self styled as "The next generation of low-carb dieting" I have read write up and sample diet in The Mirror's "Personal" Sunday Suppliment a couple of weeks back. Looks good, but empahsis on being lower-fat, getting your fats from Olive oils, and not that much saturated fats. If you are looking to combine what is being said now by nutritionists with a low-carb regime that will not offend the family, this may be it.
	GO-Diet : The Goldberg-0'Mara Diet Plan, the Key to Weight Loss & Health EatingJack Goldberg PhD, Berry LewisFrw, Karen O'Mara. Not one I have read, but one that I ave heard good things about. Emphasis here on the Proteins and the "right kinds of fat" ie monounsaturates as found in our friend Olive oil, and use of yoghurt to help keep the bowel regular, which can be a particular low-carb problem. One I do want to get to have a mooch through.
	Life Without Bread : How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life Wolfgang Lutz & Christian B. Allan. Apparently another "must read" that I haven't read yet!
	Eat Yourself Slim - and Stay Slim! by Michel Montignac. Apparently the diet craze sweeping Europe. Montignac's Method involves carbo retriction, but with good, "whole" french cuisine, with red wine and chocolate allowed! I MUST get this one as well! lol!
	Dine Out and Lose Weight by Michel Montignac.
	Thin for Good : The One Low-Carb Diet That Will Finally Work for You by Fred Pescatore.
	Sugar Busters for Kids by Sam S. Andrews, Morrison C. Bethea, Luis A. Balart & H. Leighton Steward.
	The X-factor Diet by Leslie Kenton.
	The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment for Epilepsy, 3rd Edition by John Mark Freeman, Jennifer B. Freeman, Millicent T. KellyFrw & John M. Freeman M.D.