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If you follow this fad diet for the long term, your health will deteriorate. You will watch your cholesterol levels and triglycerides skyrocket (thanks to biosynthesis) while you feel deprived because you are constantly eating BORING, FLAVORLESS, unnatural food and inadequate protein. Your body will eventually (in the face of too little protein) begin to cannibalize other tissues to get the raw material it needs. If you work out, you will notice that you do not look “fit” so much as emaciated and sickly. If you happen to be insulin resistant, your metabolism/endocrine system will go haywire while it tries to cope with the outrageous sugar burden.
McDougall has made a nice living pushing what is essentially a lose-your-health diet based on bad science and improperly manipulated statistics.
Buy a copy of Protein Power (Eades) and see true health and long-term weight reduction/management.
Rating: 1 / 5
unless you want to prepare two meals at each meal time. I can see myself offering my 10 year old beans and sprouts for dinner–NOT!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book and quickly dismissed it as yet another extreme diet book. You can follow the diet and lose weight, as you can with any starvation diet, but it is not good for the long run and for improving health. There are better thought out and balance vegan diet books out there, that make it possible for a life long change and weight loss.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is a well written book if only his diet would work. I agree that it is a healthy diet since it doesn’t include meat or dairy products, but with the heavy emphisis on starches, one is hungry all the time. Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman is a similar approach but not as strict and low on starches.
I actually gained weight on the McDougall diet.
Rating: 2 / 5
The green pepper is an abhorrent vegetable. However, if you eat this vegetable, and lots of other vegetables, and eliminate all added fat from your diet, you will lose weight.
McDougal quickly extends this prescription to say you should eliminate all added fat, (most) added sugar, white flour (bread), caffine, and alchohol. And, oh yes… if you’re depressed, try giving up sleep.
To help us, the McDougals provide a small number of so-so recipes. On the plus side, they are quick and easy. On the down side, most of us can probably figure out how to saute vegetables and dump them on a baked potato ourselves. By comparison, Dean Ornish’s recipes are much better, but more time consuming.
The McDougal diet is sensible, and taken in moderation most people can probably stick with it and lose weight. Whether we need to wade through so many “ultra slimfast” testimonials to back it up or not, is another matter.
At the end of the book, McDougal says his diet will never be big business, because it can’t make anyone rich. Personally, I can’t see any other motivation for publishing the same information book after book.
Rating: 2 / 5