Low-Carb Fraud

By now, the low-carb diet's refrain is a familiar one: "e;Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn't matter.Carbs are the real reason you can't lose weight."e;The low-carb universe Dr. Atkins brought into beingcontinues to expand. Low-carb diets, from South Beach to The Zone and beyond,are still the go-to method for weight loss for millions. These diets' marketingmay differ, but they all share two crucial components: the condemnation of"e;carbs"e; and an emphasis on meat and fat for calories. Even the latest diettrend, the Paleo diet, is-despite its increased focus on some wholefoods-just another variation on the same carbohydrate fears.In The Low-Carb Fraud, longtime leader in thenutritional science field T. Colin Campbell outlines where and how thelow-carb proponents get it wrong: where the belief came from that carbohydrates are bad and why it persists despite all the evidence to the contrary. Thefoods we misleadingly refer to as "e;carbs"e; aren't all created equal, andtreating them that way has major consequences for our nutritional well-being.If you're considering a low-carb diet, read this book first.It will change the way you think about what you eat-and how you should beeating to lose weight and optimize your health, now and for the long term.