August 21, 2003
The South Beach Diet Is Hot; Here's Why
It started out simply enough. Arthur Agatston, MD, a cardiologist, decided to develop an eating plan that would improve the cholesterol and insulin levels of his patients with heart disease. Now, the South Beach diet has grown into something much bigger. That's because the plan Agatston created not only improves cholesterol and insulin levels, but it also has helped many people lose weight....
Agatston's book about his plan, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss, has become a best seller and it appears to be poised to overtake the controversial Atkins diet in popularity.
I've not yet read the book, but it seems to be a common sense, low-carb approach to better health, falling somewhere between the Atkins approach and the Zone diet.
Let me know what you think.
Eat right. Live better.
-Tim
August 16, 2003
Book Review: Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy by Walter Willett
Aimed at nothing less than totally restructuring the diets of Americans, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy may well accomplish its goal. Dr. Walter C. Willett gets off to a roaring start by totally dismantling one of the largest icons in health today: the USDA Food Pyramid.Dr. Walter Willett, M.D. is the chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
As you might expect, this book is heavy on science but written in a hard-hitting, enjoyable style. A great book to read and use frequently as a reference on specific nutrition topics.
Eat Right. Live Better.
-Tim