low-carb books
What low-carb books are you reading? What have you read and can recommend?
I'm currently almost done with Dr. David Perlmutter's Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life (2015). I'm always on the look out for a good book to read. Since I don't watch t.v. programing, I have lots of time - lol. I just ordered Dr. Michael Ruscio's Healthy Gut, Healthy You: The Personalized Plan to Transform Your Health from the Inside Out (2018). Next up I have: Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet, Jimmy Moore, Eric C. Westman (2014) The Longevity Diet, Valter Longo (2016) Diabetes Epidemic & You, Joseph R. Kraft (2008) Keto Clarity will be the first Ketogenic diet book I've read. All I know is once a while back I looked up Ketogenic diet and it said it was the same as Atkins Induction. |
I know you don't need this advice, but for anybody who hasn't read it my first suggestion is still Atkins. He was talking about benign dietary ketosis before the term nutritional ketosis was coined by Phinney and Volek. The whole program was intended to be ketogenic at least through weight loss. I didn't find I could climb the carb ladder at all. People might not like the urine strips, but for people with blood ketone monitors who want a certain level of ketosis, I think it makes a lot of sense to start with induction, or if you like even a more ketogenic diet like the 4:1, and then intentionally creep up and see what it takes to stay around where you want to be.
Also Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution. He doesn't intend it to be ketogenic, but for non-diabetics who don't inject insulin, it's liable to be. I think the fairly strict structure of his program is a good starting point for people who need really consistent ketosis for one reason or another. Also his 7 grams of protein per ounce of meat rule, combined with knowing some very low carb vegetable sources with a gram per ounce or two grams per ounce, and then how many ounces (or fractions of ounces) of fat need to be added to round out a meal makes things easier for stricter keto diets without having to resort to fitday before adding each ingredient. |
Hi, s93. :) I'll second Teaser's recommendations. Dr. Atkins' books are easy to read, and think through, and very encouraging.
Dr. Bernstein's book explains a lot. His book was what gave me the courage to stay around 30 grams of carbs, for life. I also like Life Without Bread, by Wolfgang Lutz. It addresses what metabolism is, how different kinds of diets change the way organs work. It's a fascinating book. ---- I have other favorites, but those three are ones I would give as presents, if someone were really interested in the how and why of the necessity of low carb living. --- I like the books of the early low-carb pioneers, too. Dr. Blake Donaldson's, Strong Medicine, is really good food for thought. It can be read, without charge, at HathiTrust. |
Atkins' DANDR 2002 was the second book I read; the first being Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About it. Fantastic reading! I still keep my DANDR handy and refer back to the induction chapter frequently. It's uncanny how he anticipates your question and answers it. Other books you'd be looking ahead when a question pops up.
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This will be way more than you asked for, but this is a Resource List kept at Dr. Westman's support group page. The order is meaningless, His books first then how the list developed as members added to it.
I would certainly put Nina Teicholz "The Big Fat Surprise" higher if this were ordered by my favorites. And all three of Gary Taubes books too. I switched from mostly vegetarian to low carb right after I read the Cancer chapter in Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories. I have read all of the books on this list except Hacking the American mind, and like these four best for their "readability". Quote:
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I've read Atkins' book but at the moment I can't remember what version it was. Probably the 2nd or 3rd edition.
My favourite book of all time is Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. My next book will probably be The Obesity Code by Jason Fung. |
Richard Johnson's The Sugar Fix.
Anybody read The Ketogenic Bible? I haven't yet so can't recommend it, but it sounds like it should be good, and I've enjoyed some of Jacob Wilson's videos. |
I was reading, "Ready or Not!" By Michelle Tam & Henry Fong (of Nom Nom Paleo fame) but I got bored with it and decided I had enough cookbooks already.
I'm reading and loving, "The Food Lab" by J. Kenji López-Alt. This is not a diet book but a cookbook that will teach you how to perfectly cook all manner of meat and veggies, and gives you a wealth of information about why recipes work or why they don't. There's a lot of science in this book, but it's easy to read. He gets a little overly complex in some of his recipes (something like 30 ingredients for a Bolognese sauce - seriously?) but I love it all the same. This cookbook won a James Beard award. Check it out Here. |
Here's what I've read so far:
Why We Get Fat (2010), Gary Taubes Good Calories, Bad Calories (2004), Gary Taubes The Case Against Sugar (2016), Gary Taubes The Big Fat Surprise (2014), Nina Teicholz DANDR (2002), Dr. Atkins The New Atkins for a New You (2010), , Eric C. Westman, Stephen D. Phinney, Jeff S. Volek The Complete Guide to Fasting (2016), Dr. Jason Fung The Salt Fix (2017), James Dinicolantonio The Alzheimer's Antidote (2017), Amy Berger The Obesity Code (2015), Dr. Jason Fung The Diabetes Code (2018), Dr. Jason Fung The End of Alzheimer's (2017), Dr. Dale Bredesen Grain Brain (2013), Dr. David Perlmutter reading Brain Maker (2015), Dr. David Perlmutter |
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I have read Ketogenic Bible, only because our library had ordered it. Heavy going with some of the science (you'll like it, teaser) but also he doesn’t have the journalist flair for writing. Then he goes into depth on bodybuilding and exogenous ketones, two topics with zero interest for me. maybe someday ketones will help with neurological disease, but in the meantime I skipped those chapters...and a few others. |
Have a few waiting to be read.
Books: Healthy Gut, Healthy You: The Personalized Plan to Transform Your Health from the Inside Out, Dr. Michael Ruscio 2018 The Longevity Diet, Valter Longo 2016 Cholesterol Clarity: What The HDL Is Wrong With My Numbers?, Jimmy Moore, Eric C. Westman 2013 Kindle: The Diabetes Diet: Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution, Richard K. Bernstein 2005 Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health, William Davis 2011 Pure, White and Deadly: The new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes and other killers, John Yudkin 1972 |
With that long list already read, add the Phinney & Volek Books next. They coined the term "nutritional ketosis".
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