New Book-- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living:
 

For those who liked the "science" of Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad
Calories", there is another book. This book is self published because
editors at the major publishing houses objected to "technical
discussions of diet, rather than 'How To..'"

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to
Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable
and Enjoyable [Paperback]
Stephen D. Phinney (Author), Jeff S. Volek (Author)

The authors are two of the ones who wrote "The New Atkins For A New You"
- primarily a "How To..." book.

The "look inside this book" feature of the Amazon.com website lets you
look at the first few pages and last few pages of many chapters of the
book. A little unusual, but probably the author's choice because they
are also the publishers.

The audience is both the technically inclined dieter as well as,
hopefully, clinicians prescribing the low carbohydrate diet to patients.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Lo...9958308&sr=8-1

I'm going to buy it as soon as I come back from lengthy vacation.

New Book-- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living:
 

On 2011-07-06 12:24, pamela wrote:
For those who liked the "science" of Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad
Calories", there is another book. This book is self published because
editors at the major publishing houses objected to "technical
discussions of diet, rather than 'How To..'"


One of the thoughts I enjoyed was something like the following. During a
discussion of carbohydrate intolerance this thought was expressed.

"Would you recommend that a person who is Gluten Intolerant be urged to
eat a diet containing Gluten so that they could enjoy the great health
benefits of a (drum roll) 'Balanced Diet' "?

Would you recommend that a person who is Carbohydrate Intolerant be
urged ............. (drum roll) 'Balanced Diet' ?

New Book-- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living:
 

pamela wrote:

For those who liked the "science" of Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad
Calories", there is another book. This book is self published because
editors at the major publishing houses objected to "technical
discussions of diet, rather than 'How To..'"

Added to my Amazon wish list. Thanks!

New Book-- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living:
 

pamela wrote:

The discussed book is NOT intended as just a "How To..".

I do get the objection -

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to
Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable
and Enjoyable [Paperback]
Stephen D. Phinney (Author), Jeff S. Volek (Author)

Making the benefits sutainable sounds like a how-to discussion to me
when I read the title of the book. That conflicts with the "not a how
to" bit in the description.

I own and have read their previous book. It was very good. Good enough
that I have added it to my Amazon wish list in spite of this
contradiction. I figure all books contain contradictions and errors
once you analyze them enough. It's the total content that matters as
long as the number of errors is small compared to the value of the
correct parts.

New Book-- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living:
 

On 2011-07-06 16:54, Doug Freyburger wrote:
pamela wrote:

The discussed book is NOT intended as just a "How To..".

I do get the objection -

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to
Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable
and Enjoyable [Paperback]
Stephen D. Phinney (Author), Jeff S. Volek (Author)

Making the benefits sutainable sounds like a how-to discussion to me
when I read the title of the book. That conflicts with the "not a how
to" bit in the description.

I own and have read their previous book. It was very good. Good enough
that I have added it to my Amazon wish list in spite of this
contradiction. I figure all books contain contradictions and errors
once you analyze them enough. It's the total content that matters as
long as the number of errors is small compared to the value of the
correct parts.


There is an old saying "You Can't Judge a Book by it's Cover".

You have added a new saying "You Can't Judge A Book By It's Title".

In this case, the title was the product of the Authors alone, since they
elected to self publish the book and probably had no professional
editors involved.

The temptation to find the slightest reason to dislike something is
always present.

I hated the long title, but I read the content and it is quite good. At
present, the ratings by readers are very high. Mostly 5 stars.

Thanks, Doug.

New Book-- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living:
 

pamela wrote:

One of the thoughts I enjoyed was something like the following. During a
discussion of carbohydrate intolerance this thought was expressed.

"Would you recommend that a person who is Gluten Intolerant be urged to
eat a diet containing Gluten so that they could enjoy the great health
benefits of a (drum roll) 'Balanced Diet' "?

Would you recommend that a person who is Carbohydrate Intolerant be
urged ............. (drum roll) 'Balanced Diet' ?

Folks often state that a balanced diet works the best. They don't
consider is that low fat is not balanced either. Many of us who have
lived in decades of pressure to go low fat high carb have ended up
reacting poorly to high carb foods because we ate too many of them for
too many years. Sure, if we had never been damaged by high carb foods a
balanced diet would probably work for us. But our situation is a bit
like a very mild version of diabetes. Now we're better off low carbing.
Would I recommend low carbing to a child? No more than I would
recommend low fatting to a child.