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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Two Harbors Press | | Page Count: | 412 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 20, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 94,353th |
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Go ahead, have another slice -- it s not going to kill you ... or is it? That's what we ve been taught to believe. Luckily for us, Dr. Robert Su has taken it upon himself to discover the real truth behind one of the most widely-ingested and dangerously insidious substances around: carbohydrates. Dr. Su is an experienced physician - certainly not a wide-eyed advocate of every new dietary fad that comes around - as well as living proof that carbohydrates are one of the most underrated and misunderstood threats to consumers today. With Carbohydrates Can Kill, you can learn how to: -Find your own carbohydrate-restricted diet (one that you can stick to) -Recognize your body's reactions to your lifestyle, and alter that lifestyle as necessary -Purposefully strengthen your immune system -Improve your well-being and extend your lifespan -Treat your body as one unit, understanding that each part affects all other parts -Find support from your family and friends In language both passionate and accessible, Dr. Su uses his own life as an example of what not to do - as well as showing us how to recover from a life doing just that. He has a clear desire to see a healthier and happier tomorrow for all of us, and has spent years devoted to his quest to find the truth about carbohydrates so that the rest of us don't have to. Armed with this book and the vast number of outside references he has collected for all of us, we are supplied with all the tools we need to successfully find and stick to a carbohydrate-restricted diet. It's never too late to become healthy! |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Excellent reference for low-carb dieters by J. Elwell (Salt Lake City, Utah United States)  4 Stars
August 09, 2009
This is an unusual book in several ways. It is the only one I know of written by a medical doctor who improved his own health by eating low carb. It ranges from extremely technical in Chapter 1 to pretty casual in Chapter 7. It goes into great depth about all the bad things that come from eating carbohydrates, but its dietary advice consists of a list of fourteen items on less than two pages.
Here are some of the things I really liked about the book:
1. Chapter 1 is a very in-depth discussion of the biochemistry of food, metabolism and nutrition. If you have a scientific bent, you will enjoy this. It includes numerous charts and drawings to help illustrate the various concepts. If you aren't so inclined, I think you could skip it, and just refer to the glossary starting on page 14 as necessary.
(One thing I learned reading the glossary: the term "diabetes mellitus" refers to the most common form of diabetes we all know about. There is another kind of diabetes, "diabetes insipidus" which creates similar symptoms, but is quite a different ailment.)
2. The Physicians Personal Experience (Chapter 5) is quite interesting. You can see very clearly the scientific mind working as Dr. Su experiments on himself with diet and exercise changes, keeping careful records along the way.
3. The list of published research papers in the book is very useful, due to his categorization and summary of the contents. His categories are things like: obesity, diabetes, vision, arthritis, etc., all in relationship to carbohydrate intake. An excellent reference to have.
4. His web site lists some 1,163 scientific papers, sorted in the same categories as the book, supporting the superiority of low-carb diets. Another useful reference. (Another reviewer states that "our bodies need carbohydrates." Two of these papers prove him wrong -- you can live a long and healthy life without eating any carbohydrates.)
5. While the book is black-and-white, most of the charts and diagrams are duplicated in color on glossy paper at the front. Very nice to have . . . some of the b&w ones in the text are nearly unreadable.
Some things that could be improved:
1. As interesting as the Physicians Personal Experience is, it is also far too long and too detailed. Dr. Su is extremely impressive in his record keeping (he would record his blood pressure and body weight three to six times a day!), but writing at that level of detail makes it pretty tedious for the reader.
2. Apparently Dr. Su never read any of the popular low-carb diet books, such as Dr.Atkins or Protein Power (Dr. Eades). This is unfortunate, as most of his five years low-carbing was "reinventing the wheel." If he had first read these books, his incredible dedication to scientific learning would have started farther ahead and ended farther ahead.
3. The book seriously needs both a good copy editor and typographer. While readable, it is chock full of poorly structured sentences, unnecessary repetition, etc. There are also many places where a section title is separated from the body copy by a page break . . . really poor design.
4. He recommends everyone cut their carbs to 125 to 175 grams a day, or 75 to 100 grams to lose weight. I think these are way too high for many people, both for maintenance and for weight loss.
5. Finally, he would really help his readers by recommending one or two of the more popular low-carb diet books, which have far more information about how to make low-carb a way of life. This book alone simply does not do that.
This is a very informative book. I fear it will not have the impact on the health of people that Dr. Su clearly would like it to have, primarily due to its very thin dietary advice.
Jim
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Proof ! The Experience + The Research by Lauri Cagnassola (NYC)  5 Stars
July 15, 2009
When Dr. Su discovered the effects of carbohydrates on his own body, it changed his world. The change was so dramatic he wants to change yours too! Carbohydrates Can Kill is a manifestation of Dr. Su's passion to improve your health in ways you may not have dreamed possible.
Follow this physician through his journey of health transformation and discover the detailed daily regime of a man who has radically improved the quality of his life by following a true science that most of us do not know exists. The first half of the book is a documentation of one physician's experience and the second half of the book contains fascinating information that should be required learning for everyone who eats!
Dr. Su uncovers the science behind carbohydrate restriction and it's effects on health by clearly and concisely explaining it in a way that is easy to digest.
The information contained in the myriad of scientific journals is over whelming and many times incomprehensible for those of us without an MD or PhD. Dr. Su explains much of the literature for us in a way that makes sense while also providing the reader with the reference information to access the research directly. The abundance or research on the benefits of carbohydrate restriction Dr. Su points out may shock you!
If you want to know the truth about nutritional health, get this book to point the way, read the research, and then as the doctor suggests, try it for yourself!
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ho hum by B. J Robbins (La Quinta, CA United States)  3 Stars
July 12, 2009
Another person trying to make a buck on the low-carb craze sweeping america. Pathetic that it's a doctor.
Our bodies need carbohydrates. Period. We can sure do without simple carbohydrates, like white bread and refined sugar, but we need complex carbohydrates. For someone to entitle their book "Carbohydrates Can Kill" is an obvious attempt to sell books and enlighten nobody.
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Dr. Su Says Low-Carb Will Work For You, Too! by Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Man (Spartanburg, SC) 5 Stars
May 01, 2009
One of the things that is most frustrating for people dealing with weight and health issues is that they don't feel like their primary care physician truly understands their problem. If only doctors and other medical professionals could go through all the experiences of trying to lose weight, deal with declining health, and attempt to eat as healthy as they want us to, then maybe people would feel more confident and inspired to do those things for themselves. That's exactly what Dr. Robert K. Su has done.
After years of toiling with high-carb, low-fat diets and struggling to figure out why his patients weren't losing weight and getting healthier eating that way, Dr. Su went on his own personal low-carb journey that led him to shed the pounds, greatly improve his health, and have an epiphany about why so many of his patients had such a difficult time with these issues over the years. His research showed him it was the carbohydrates they were eating that were quite literally KILLING them.
While most people erroneously think that your body somehow needs carbs to function, Dr. Su outlines brilliantly in his book that this is a bald face lie. The body actually needs fat and some protein, but there is absolutely no dietary requirement for the body to consume carbs. CARBOHYDRATES CAN KILL is an eye-opening book for anyone who is still caught up in decades-old thinking that fat is the enemy and carbs are your friend. Flip those two around and you'll see what Dr. Su sees--low-carb will work for you, too!
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