Eat Rich, Live Long: Use the Power of Low-Carb and Keto for Weight Loss and Great Health

This book explains the latest scientific research, showing that a diet very low in carbohydrates, especially sugar, combined with very high fat, including saturated fat, is not only easy to keep as your weight drops, but heads off all kinds of diseases. I had a mild heart attack last year despite excellent physical conditioning and no indications of heart disease. Even my “lipoprotein panel” blood test had all the ratios right on target or better. Yet I’d long weighed 5% to 10% more than I wanted, with occasional hypoglycemia, and had trouble finding a diet that was really worked, despite going vegetarian, while keeping fish and dairy.

Now that an fashioned breakfast of bacon, eggs, and butter (but no bread, pancakes, potatoes, etc.) is once again OK, my appetite is much subdued, and I’m down to 2 meals a day, with my weight dropping. I simply feel much healthier. According to this book, it’s likely that I had developed some insulin resistance, which led to inflammation and plaque build up in my arteries, but that this will now fade.

Cummins and Gerber totally debunk the focus on “bad cholesterol” (= LDL). It never had a sound scientific basis. Instead it was based on data cherry picked by a researcher and promoter named Ancel Keyes, backed by a sophisticated PR campaign from the sugar industry. This overwhelmed good research to the contrary. Gary Taubes book, “The Case Against Sugar”, has a more detailed account of this fiasco. Enormous studies, costing billions of dollars, were conducted to prove that bad cholesterol causes heart disease, hence you should go on a low fat diet that avoids the saturated fats that contain LDL cholesterol.

All of these studies failed spectacularly, yet the vested interests were so powerful that the continued expansion of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc., has only recently begun to turn the tide, so that more people are now looking at what the science, and practice, actually tells us. Not that you would yet know it from the grocery store shelves, where most processed foods contain sugar and where so many foods advertise themselves as “healthy” due to their low fat (and often gluten-free, lactose-free, non-GMO) contents. This is designed to divert attention from their high levels of carbohydrates and sugars, even though they are the crux of the problem.

However, the authors are careful to say that some fats can cause problems if you try keep all your carbs. And that, of course, has been the problem with many anti-fat studies: they haven’t distinguished between low and high carbs, with sugars and without. That is, if you’re not even asking the right questions, you often get misleading or useless results. Most people know something is wrong but are still confused. This book, or associated videos, will really clarify things for you.

Bravo, Cummins and Gerber. My brother has been on a Keto diet for a few of years now and swears by it.

Amazing book, love the lay out and as well very understandable information. Recipes very doable. Love the way he explains the science end of this.