Product Description
Join the thousands who have experienced dramatic weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and improvement or reversal of the damages of heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and other major diseases by following this medically proven program.Protein Power will teach you how to use food as a tool for Dramatic and permanent weight loss Resetting your metabolism and boosting your energy levels Lowering your "bad" cholesterol levels while elevating the "good" Protecting yourself from "The Deadly Diseases of Civilization" (including high blood pressure and heart disease)And best of all, Protein Power encourages you to Eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon, and burgers), cheeses, and eggs Rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!) Stop shocking your body with breads, pastas, and other fat-inducing carbohydratesSo prepare yourself for the most dramatic life-enhancing diet program available!

Amazon.com Review
If smoked salmon and cream cheese omelets, sautéed jumbo shrimp, and double-patty burgers suit your palate, belly up to the Protein Power diet: "Not a high protein diet" but "an adequate protein diet." Doctors Michael R. and Mary Dan Eades make a persuasive case in favor of "the diet we were meant to eat." Similar to Dr. Robert Atkins's New Diet Revolution, the authors cite insulin as the main culprit in weight gain and expound the benefits of a diet extremely low in carbohydrates. Carbohydrates, which are changed into sugar during digestion, stimulate the body to store fat, making weight loss virtually impossible. The most revolutionary idea put forth in Protein Power is that the fat you eat has very little bearing on the fat you gain: in other words, we aren't what we eat after all. Researchers have found that eating larger portions of protein in conjunction with severely reduced portions of carbohydrates causes people to burn the excess fat stored in their bodies. Protein Power is packed with helpful charts and formulas, so you can estimate your body-fat percentage and your ideal weight for your particular body composition. There are worksheets to calculate your protein need and carbohydrate and protein equivalency charts, as well as charts that allow you to track your fat and weight loss. But this book is not all grams and percentages: it also shows you what a day of eating on this diet would look like and includes sample menus and 70 pages of recipes. If you've been starving yourself for years and just can't seem to lose weight, this may be the diet for you. --Jhana Bach

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 451 reviews)

Great by Ehleighen (Twin Cities, MN)

5 Stars
November 01, 2009
I love everything written by Dr Eades. I thought Atkins did a great job going into the science and why you should eat this way, but Dr Eades takes it a notch higher giving even more detail. If you truly want to be healthy, lose weight, and understand why this is the ONLY diet you should ever eat for the rest of your life, read his stuff. And Dr Atkins' stuff too. and Primal Blueprint. and The Cholesterol Myth (boring but good information).

Great information by Victoria Anakalea

4 Stars
August 24, 2009
My Doctor recommended this book and it is really good. I dropped six pounds in the first week and learned a lot about health.

Star power! by Chubby no more (Sanford, Florida)

5 Stars
June 14, 2009
This book has so many easy to understand concepts...I've started the plan, and feel great. Am looking forward to dropping some serious weight and regaining my health...and the best part...no hunger pangs!

Good science, restoring some semblence of sanity and objectivty to the field of nutrition. by Mark A. Peter (Marina del Rey, CA USA)

5 Stars
June 03, 2009
This book is, in some ways, written like a diet book, which isn't a terrible thing. But unlike other diet books I've read or even glanced through, which are largely fluffy polemics for the "hook" the author has in mind, this is written more like a scientific primer on the biochemistry of human metabolism and hormone function. It is fairly dense with good information, presented accessibly to a beginner. The most disturbing revelation in this book is that the information supporting the authors' basic thesis--the relationship between macronutrients, the metabolic hormones insulin and glucagon, and disorders such as obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes--is all basic human biochemistry and has been available to scientists, researchers and nutritionists throughout these last few decades and beyond in the form of basic medical textbooks. And yet, viewing nutrition through the prism of the demonization of saturated fat, particularly red meat, the nutritional establishment has not only failed to put the pieces together in the most obvious way, it has deliberately arranged them into bizarre pretzel-like configurations to support the prevailing (but illogical) view. The authors' thesis fits the known biological facts of hormones and metabolism, it fits the known history of mankind, and it fits most common sense wisdom about nutrition and weight loss prior to the last few decades. There are of course many nuances and individual variations that can make a difference in specific cases--but trying to build a nutrional model on any basis that contradicts this viewpoint is flat-out wrong. Bad science. And dangerous, particiularly if it suggests a high-carbohydrate diet to people who are obviously suffering from hyperinsulinemia (insulin resistance). These facts are beyond question: 1) Insulin and glucagon, in addition to regulating blood sugar, also manage a host of other functions in the body, including fat storage and the manufacturing of cholesterol. 2) Ingested carbohydrates raise blood sugar, triggering the release of insluin, and thus temporarily raising the ratio of serum insulin to glucagon in order keep blood sugar from rising too high. 3) Excessive carbohydrate intake, over a long period of time, gradually decreases the cells' sensitivity to insulin, such that more and more insluin is necessary regulate blood sugar. 4) When serum insulin levels are consistently elevated, a host of metabolic disorders kick in, including excessive fat storage and excessive manufacture of cholesterol. (This, by the way, *not* dietary cholesterol, is the cause of high LDL in the blood.) 5) When this insulin resistence gets bad enough, the insulin is no longer able to keep blood sugar in a normal range, and adult-onset diabetes sets in. If you're 19 years old and skinny, you don't need any intervention, but you would be well advised to learn to avoid taxing your system with the insane amount of sugar, flour and starches that most people who can "get away with it" eat, because it will make life much less difficult when you're 35, 45, 55. If you're past your twenties, you're more than 15% overweight, and you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or high triglycerides, you almost certainly have some degree of hyperinsulinemia (this can be confirmed with the right blood test), and grasping these concepts is going to be increasingly vital to your ability to regain or retain your health. I will add that I began this diet at around age 35, and dropped from 220 to 185 (probably close to my ideal weight) in about two months, and did it without feeling at all deprived. I'm fortunate in that meat, eggs, cheese and green vegetables constitute a very enjoyable diet for me, so the induction phase was a breeze. Read this book and learn about your hormones and your metabolism. There's a lot more than what I just summarized, all of it important. Then, from a position of knowledge, assess your own situation and see if the recommended diet will help you.

A real eye-opener. Learned a lot! by Kathy Murphy (Seattle, WA)

5 Stars
May 29, 2009
I've managed, for years, to keep my weight down....My biggest struggle has been that I've been hungry all the time. This book helped me understand why. I now understand exactly how much protien I should take in each day and how to manage the carb intake so I can control my blood sugar (which also contributes to my constant hunger). I now feel that I can manage my food intake without feeling deprived. Tons of great info in this book...about vitamins, the truth about fat & cholesterol and even some recipes. I loved this book so much that I bought their second book and have just finished that one. Smart doctors!

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