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ginelise's review against another edition
4.0
This is a good read for those starting out with a ketogenic lifestyle who are having a hard time transitioning their beliefs from everything our health associations & government has lead us to believe about health & nutrition. The entire book has contributing experts from multiple doctors, nutritionists, fitness coaches, & scientists and that might help you feel less weary to start a keto lifestyle than any other book about the keto diet, simply because the information is coming directly from a medical professional. I wasn't a fan of the few recipes in the back and I found a lot of the book to be repetitive.
apochemu's review against another edition
4.0
A good book for a beginning overview of the keto diet. Although at times it feels repetitive and a bit preachy, there is interesting information in it and it gives a good overall look at what the diet is and how it could be beneficial. I've only tried a few of the recipes so far, but have loved the ones I tried. Seeing how I don't have a ketone tester I don't know for sure if I'm in nutritional ketosis, but both my husband and I have felt great and lost weight by eating this way. It's been hugely beneficial to my mom as well.
mbm1311's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not trying to cut into the authors' sales, but the gist of the solution is: each person has their individual ratios of carbs/fats/proteins their body can handle, along with a maximum daily calorie intake and an amount of calories burned on a daily average. You, the owner of this body, can control all these. The "trick" is finding out what works for you. Trying this diet was a short, sharp shock to my system.
had trouble reading this book. Not because it was too scientific or technical for me, but because it reads like it's addressing a kindergarten class. Perhaps this is because Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat was my first delve into keto/low carb reading, and the difference between the two is striking.
had trouble reading this book. Not because it was too scientific or technical for me, but because it reads like it's addressing a kindergarten class. Perhaps this is because Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat was my first delve into keto/low carb reading, and the difference between the two is striking.
julia_may's review against another edition
3.0
A useful and accessible guide to the ketogenic way of eating, but geared towards beginners who don't want to know all the scientific ins and outs behind it. It's certainly not a comprehensive guide but more like a taster of what this way of eating is all about.
sarah_gibson's review against another edition
4.0
Informative but repetitive and a bit boring at times.
lpm100's review against another edition
2.0
2.0 out of 5 stars Someday I really will learn my lesson about buying books from no name labels.
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2018
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The only thing that saves this book from getting 1 stars (instead of 2) is that it had an interesting recipe section and the first recipe that we tried was very successful.
As far as execution, this book is inferior to the Atkins book in almost every way.
1. Atkins was a physician and an expert and therefore it only took one expert to write the whole book. The primary author of this book is not an expert, but he goes overboard in trying to compensate for that fact by including WAY TOO MANY experts, and they break up the flow of the prose almost every paragraph. (The prose-destroying device was the "Moments of Clarity" about 3-4 times every two pages. VERY ANNOYING.)
2. There is this annoying habit of saying "Well talk about this later." Or, "we'll talk about this in Chapter X."
3. The people involved in this book were a person who lived the diet and an expert. Since they had so many people chiming in once or twice on *every single page* or so, there is not reason that they couldn't have brought a co-author in in order to make the book more readable. Maybe they could have put the dietary theory all into one place. And then the history of the low carb diet all into another place. And then the details of how to set up the diet into yet another place. As it is, this book was just CHAOTIC.
I see why it was published on a no-name label. No serious book label (Basic Books, Random House, Doubleday) would let this unedited crap get out with their name on it.
If you really want to save your money, I would just tell you that:
1. Read the Atkins book. Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution .
2. Be aware that this author goes a bit further with eating fat.
3. Be aware that you need to have higher levels of ketones that can't be only tested Ketostix.
4. Just look up on the internet (it is only a paragraph or two worth of reading) the use of a Ketonix meter and the levels that someone should expect when in long term ketosis. (You read that right: This book only updates the Atkins diet by about *one single page.*)
I also see these diets along a continuum. Something like: Ornish diet-->Normal American diet-->Diabetic diet-->Zone diet-->Atkins diet--> Ketogenic diet. It would help if this diet was put in its proper context.
(One other unrelated note: The author references "The Big Bang Theory." He needs to go over his note. Bernadette was not the waitress at The Cheesecake Factory. It was Penny.)
Verdict: Recommended at the price of $1.
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2018
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The only thing that saves this book from getting 1 stars (instead of 2) is that it had an interesting recipe section and the first recipe that we tried was very successful.
As far as execution, this book is inferior to the Atkins book in almost every way.
1. Atkins was a physician and an expert and therefore it only took one expert to write the whole book. The primary author of this book is not an expert, but he goes overboard in trying to compensate for that fact by including WAY TOO MANY experts, and they break up the flow of the prose almost every paragraph. (The prose-destroying device was the "Moments of Clarity" about 3-4 times every two pages. VERY ANNOYING.)
2. There is this annoying habit of saying "Well talk about this later." Or, "we'll talk about this in Chapter X."
3. The people involved in this book were a person who lived the diet and an expert. Since they had so many people chiming in once or twice on *every single page* or so, there is not reason that they couldn't have brought a co-author in in order to make the book more readable. Maybe they could have put the dietary theory all into one place. And then the history of the low carb diet all into another place. And then the details of how to set up the diet into yet another place. As it is, this book was just CHAOTIC.
I see why it was published on a no-name label. No serious book label (Basic Books, Random House, Doubleday) would let this unedited crap get out with their name on it.
If you really want to save your money, I would just tell you that:
1. Read the Atkins book. Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution .
2. Be aware that this author goes a bit further with eating fat.
3. Be aware that you need to have higher levels of ketones that can't be only tested Ketostix.
4. Just look up on the internet (it is only a paragraph or two worth of reading) the use of a Ketonix meter and the levels that someone should expect when in long term ketosis. (You read that right: This book only updates the Atkins diet by about *one single page.*)
I also see these diets along a continuum. Something like: Ornish diet-->Normal American diet-->Diabetic diet-->Zone diet-->Atkins diet--> Ketogenic diet. It would help if this diet was put in its proper context.
(One other unrelated note: The author references "The Big Bang Theory." He needs to go over his note. Bernadette was not the waitress at The Cheesecake Factory. It was Penny.)
Verdict: Recommended at the price of $1.
dahall1023's review against another edition
4.0
This book was extremely influential for me. I had been researching Keto diets but this was the first book specifically about this. It's a very easy read with both facts and anecdotes. There are recipes in the back which I appreciated. I was not familiar with Livin' La Vida Low carb before read this book. This was an easy and very approachable way to learn the research behind nutritional ketosis. This was the launching point for me.