Low Carb, High Fat Food Revolution: Advice and Recipes to Improve Your Health and Reduce Your Weight

PROs- Succinct description of food plan, good scientific explanation of this approach *****CONs- Publisher did hack job in translation and preparation for publication **I was finally able to figure out how to eat low-carb with regular real food after reading Dr. Eenfeldt's English blog. I was thin until thyroid problems hit with pregnancy, and have strived for many years to figure out an eating plan that worked for me. Low-Carb always made sense, but I could never get it to work, but for me, this one does! My ongoing weight loss is slow but consistent (others get faster results, but I keep myself sane by including small amounts of my favorite sourdough bread). I have never felt confident about buying clothes that I like that are a little too small until now. (Just last week I realized that my jeans had become too baggy and that I needed to donate them and put on the smaller jeans I had previously bought.) This is not the only book out there about LCHF, several other books cover the same territory, but because this book has some useful features, it is nice that this book is finally available in English.Unlike other diet books which take pages and pages to simply explain the diet, the basic diet takes only 3 pages to explain. I really appreciate that he explains the principles of the eating plan simply and straightforwardly. But additional very helpful details, example menus, a handful of useful recipes (some may want more), questions, practical food suggestions, restaurant strategies, and so forth are explained in the rest of the Guide (Part III) so are very worth reading, only 55 pages total. It includes yummy real foods which I had been denying myself (such as avocados, nuts, cheese, and charcuterie) as well as specific vegetables and fruits which are naturally low-carb, rather than relying on powders, bars, shakes, artificial sweeteners, faux recipes, and allegedly "low-carb" manufactured foods.For me, the challenge with low-carb adequate protein eating was wrapping my head around the need for higher amounts of fat that you eat instead of carbs. In the past there have been so many people pushing all sorts of fake foods and strange recipes (Dr. A for one), that were unappealing and big fails when I tried them. Couldn't I just eat more protein rather than all that fat? (As a casualty of the low-fat wars who was unaware of the benefits of the right fats, and who at one point ate no more than 5g of fat a day, I still thought fat should be avoided.) Finally reading a year ago (before this book was available in English) on Dr. Eenfeldt's blog about how excess protein is converted to blood sugar, so you don't want to eat more than a certain amount, made me understand why low carb diets have to replace those carbs with beneficial fats, as well as just enough protein. I have found that if my weight loss stalls, to make sure I'm eating enough fat, and then it resumes. Daily experience with tracking my consumption on this diet has taught me that carbs make me hungry, while smaller amounts of fat do not -- this, plus adequate protein is what makes this diet work for me. (Recently it has dawned on me that this is how I ate when I was a skinny teenager and young woman, until I decided to "improve" my health by going low-fat.)Parts I and II cover the history of various approaches to dieting, and provide scientific grounding into how low-carb high-fat (LCHF) diets work, territory that is covered by many other books out there as well, so depending on how much you've been reading, it may or may not be new to you. It comprises most of the book and is very readable with explanations that make a lot of sense (though some may find it repetitious). It explains how the hormonal effects of low-carb eating help weight loss, and why you want to get your insulin levels low and how higher insulin makes you fat. It is interesting that this kind of diet is how diabetes was treated before insulin was available as a medication, for example. And then there are numerous beneficial effects of specific kinds of fats for the metabolism and the brain, which I was unaware of. For anyone wondering "isn't this unhealthy?", my blood lipids are great, with off-the-chart high HDLs (good), and my doctor says "just keep doing what you're doing" (my lucky genes help). After the Guide (part III), there are resources for finding out more, and extensive references.There are numerous examples of people with not only weight loss, but also improvements in other health issues like diabetes, fatty liver, acne, seizures, etc. on his blog, which you can find by searching the web for "weight-loss-stories DietDoctor". It is worth exploring the other topics on his DietDoctor blog as well, because there he does discuss additional useful topics and resources which are not in the book.Unfortunately, the publisher did a really poor job preparing this book for publication. While the translation itself reads smoothly, there are glitches (they talk about gorging on "crayfish tails", but I think they meant "lobster tails"). But there are some more severe problems. Measurement units were mostly not converted, so some discussion is less meaningful to US readers (to convert blood glucose numbers to those used in the US, multiply by 18). Also many of the medications mentioned have different names in different countries, those should have been added as well. Every time a URL is given, it is to his Swedish site, when instead it should be to his corresponding English site DietDoctor. And the page numbers are wrong in the index, sometimes only 2 pages off, but I have found some that are over 20 pages off. This makes it hard to find a specific topic you want to recheck. Finally, there are no footnotes and few citations in the text, so that if you want to track down more about some topic he discussed at a certain point, you don't know which of the many references at the back are the ones to refer to. It seems like the editorial and production departments were not paying attention, diminishing the usability of this thorough work, too bad (hence 4 stars rather than 5).In spite of publisher glitches, I strongly recommend considering this life changing (for me) book, as well as investigating his DietDoctor website. There are many other books which cover low-carb high-fat dieting, but several rely on fake food like artificial sweeteners or protein powder, or odd recipes. It was a relief when I encountered his approach because it is so much easier to just utilize tasty real food that is already out there.

This book will revolutionize the WRONG dietary information you have been taught and believed to be true. We have been sold a bill-of-goods that actually are a leading cause of killing we Americans! High Carb, white flour, and SUGAR is our true enemy and killeer - NOT FAT! What we have believed and endorsed by our Government has largely been based upon the "OPINION" of Medical Professionals - NOT based upon Scientific back to back double-blind studies and research and tests on regulated numbers of persons over years! Low Carbs High Fat is a proven, shocking yes, but proven way to lose weight, lower blood glucose (sugar) - which it did on mine remarkably - pulling me back from being a Type 2 Diabetic, is lowering blood pressure and my LDL (the BAD) Cholesterol - proving Fat does NOT clog our arteries! I doubted this as my mind kept saying, 'No, this is not what we 'know' to be true. A vegetarian diet is recommended and eat pasta for energy, cereals, chips, crackers, bread are all good!' While not being able to dis-prove what the scientific studies show I finally tried this revolutionary way of eating. No limit on avacados, real butter, bacon and eggs which I LOVE! Forget buying lean meat! Buy it with meat, it improves the taste and works synergistically with the cells in our body in metabolizing and dealing with FAT as nature intended. This book will take you inside your liver and arteries and heart and show you this astounding, SHOCKING, GOOD NEWS about eating yourway to health and losing unwanted fat. You'll find yourself wanting everyone you love and know to read this book! I'm losing 3 to 4 pounds a month regularly while eating while enjoying thick whipping cream in my coffee, and cooking with real butter and eating all I want of butter. And I'm not hungry in between meals. This way of eating satisfies you! Try it, you'll LOVE it!

This is a well-written, eye-opening book on the new movement debunking the myth that a low-fat diet is good for us. Written by a Swedish physician who talks about all of the health problems that the Swedes developed while following our American dietary guidelines and how they figured out why our country is so sick and fat before we did. The author explains how the Swedish people discovered the health risks of eating the low-fat diet that has been forced on us since the early 80's. Overall, a wonderful read, but a tab bit academic for many. He also spends more time explaining why we should be eating more fat than how. Still, this work is just one more book that supports the low carbohydrate, high fat way to health. A very important book for Americans to read in order to have that paradigm shift away from our disease-producing, low-fat, way of eating. Oh, and by the way, I'm amazed at how most Americans have been brainwashed into thinking they know what "good fat" is. Most of the oils we consume and cook with are really quite bad for us. Butter is in again. For a better how-to book, look for something that explains the Nutritional Ketogenic Diet, but this book does have some recommendations on eating a higher fat diet.

It is really a passport to being fit and healthy. I love to read it and re-read it every time that I have a new doubt. It helps me a great deal in being able to achieve goals that you had been waiting for almost all your life and thought were impossible. It is easy to follow, well explained, and raised my hopes far and beyond expectations. I highly recommend "Andreas Eenfeldt's Low Carb, High Fat food revolution" to all those who are seeking for a true answer to the lies that we've been conditioned to regarding nutrition, and that are ruining our health. This is a new lifestyle that I am taking by gradients, and so far... I am most satisfied, happy, energized... I can keep going. I do wish success to all that are like me... in this wonderful, magical, but realistic journey. I feel thankful. Blessings.

This is a very heartfelt book. The author, a doctor, sees morbidly obese patients every day who have been digging their graves with their teeth and who understandably benefit from ditching the microwave meals and beer and turning to a diet of real, freshly cooked protein, good fat and veg. I'm not in that category as I am a healthy eater and I walk almost everywhere every day and do most of my grocery shopping on foot. I gained several stone during the menopause from hell (I also have a slightly underactive thyroid and a family history of thyroid disease) but dieted almost one and a half stone off by following a low fat diet at Slimming World. By that stage my hair and skin had become incredibly dry and I did some research and realised that low fat can being health problems and that middle aged women benefit from olive oil, avocadoes, etc. I then switched to calorie counting and lost another half stone. I stabilised and decided to put the diet on hold for the winter. I kept all of the weight off and, this spring, decided to start again to lose the final ten pounds. I sent for this book and put it into action, cutting back on carbs over three weeks then doing the diet fully. I gave it my best shot but felt dreadful and was permanently constipated. I normally eat lots of home made vegetable chilli but this wasn't allowed as beans are high. (A half tin of baked beans is 17 carbs and a low carb diet allows between 20 carbs and 40 carbs a day. A half tin of tomatoes is 8 carb grams.) I also enjoy water melon, fresh pineapple and figs but they are frowned upon as being too high carb so I substituted them for the only approved-of fruit, namely berries. To make up the calories from giving up potatoes and similar side dishes, the author suggests having your vegetables in creamy sauces so, instead of having a bowl of ratatouille and a little brown rice, I ended up having a pork steak and a home made vegetable bake with Hollandaise sauce. I actually gained two pounds and was so unwell that, on two separate days, I had to go back to bed! I'm absolutely not criticising Dr Eenfeldt as it's obvious that he is a healer who really cares about people and is horrified that the masses are living off convenience food and storing up numerous health problems for the future. He also explained with wonderful clarity exactly what insulin resistance is. I have taken on board some of the advice in this book and will try to avoid potatoes in future and will limit my bread to one slice of artisan wholemeal a day.

I found the Dietdoctor online just before I was diagnosed as 'pre-diabetic'. I can't emphasize enough how much this has changed both my life and my husband's. So pleased to finally be able to read the book. If you are overweight/suffer from arthritis/are generally unfit and you want to change your life without gruelling gym sessions and without being hungry all the time then this is for you. An eating regime which actually makes sense!

Enjoyed reading this book, lots of facts and information on how we eat in the West and the effects it has on our bodies. The truth about the over use of sugars in almost every food type we eat is an eye opener. I've put the information in this book into practice and switched from sugars & carbohydrates as my main energy source for 3 months now and I'm loving eating food that tastes Good and fills you up and not what I see now as the wrong energy source for our bodies "sugars", as a result I've lost one and a half stone, fitting back into clothes to tight before. I'm not going back. You decide either take the blue pill, wake up and believe what you want to about fat or as I did take the red pill and see the world in a completely new way....P.S. Loved the book.

Prophet, High priest, iconoclast? If even 50% of this book is true, there is enough here to start a revolution. Food manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industry should be on their knees begging our forgiveness. This book is quite simply life-changing. I have already started to implement the changes in diet recommended here and am enjoying losing weight without hunger or having to sacrifice taste. The Holy Grail of all dieters has been under our noses all along!

This book gives a clear account how low fat high carbohydrate guidelines given by America which had been copied by others have led to a rise in type 2 diabetes and obesity. These were due to hyperinsulinaemia caused by high carbohydrate diet ,resulting in insulin resistance.Thiscontribute to hypertension ,dyslipidaemia heart disease atherosclerosis strokes,peripheral vascular diseases kidney failures fatty liver etc. All these can be treated by lifestyle choise of low carb high fat diet