The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry
by Trish Fahey, William Linz Wolcott
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Author: Trish Fahey, William Linz WolcottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-02
ISBN: 0767905644
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Broadway
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Book Review: One Man's Food Is Another Man's Poison
Summary: 5 Stars
Why do some people do well on Robert Atkin's high fat and protein diet with almost no carbs, while other people fare poorly on such a diet? The same holds true for many other diet plans, such as the low fat regiman of Dean Ornish. The reason, according to William Wolcott, author of "The Metabolic Typing Diet," is that one diet regiman doesn't fit all. In other words, one man's food truly is another man's poison.
Wolcott contends that while we all need fats, carbohydrates and proteins in our diet, some people need more high pruine, fatty meats (dark meat poultry, beef, fatty fish such as salmon) and other fats such as butter, while other people need a mix of high and low fat meats (dark and light meat poultry, high and low fat fish, beef) and carbohydrates, while a third group fares better eating more carbohydrates and low fat meats, such as white meat chicken and turkey, low fat fish, and beans. I have been following his diet recommendations and see the wisdom in his advice. While everyone needs fruits and vegies in their diet, different people do better on different kinds of these foods. For example, while carbohydrate types can eat more liberal amounts of all types of fruits, as they don't raise their blood sugar as rapidly, the high protein, fat types do better on less sweet fruits. They should also more carefully monitor their total fruit consumption and stay away from fruit drinks.
Wolcott has everyone eat whole grains. As it breaks down the phytates and other enzyme inhibitors, he recommends soaking your grains. He also encourages every one to eat three meals a day at set times. He encourages the purchase of free range meat that doesn't have nitrates or nitrites and feeds on the proper food for it's digestive system. He encourages people to buy organic grains and produce where feasible. Even more important than buying organic vegies or fruits is to purchase the frshest produce you can find. He also has a list of foods he says everyone should stay away from. Included in this list are alcohol, caffiene, sugar and trans fats, which are produced when food is fired or deep fried, especially in delicate omega six vegie oils, such as sunflower, safflower, corn, soy, and canola oil. Each metabolic type has other specific foods that they need to monitor in their diet.
Another very good book on metabolic type diets is "The Nutrition Solution," by Harold J. Kristol. His discription of the oxidative vs. the autonomic nervous system domiants is well done. While Wolcott covers this subject in detail, I found Kristal's book to be even more understandable than Wolcott's book. Wolcott has the best self test to determine your metabolic type of the two books. I also like that he gives a diet plan for mixed types, which Kristal does not do. Kristal does discuss a balanced diet for those people who are healathy enough to be on one. I would highly recommend you read both books, There are several other books on metabolic types. When reviewing them on Amazon, none impressed me all that much. These two books truly are the best books I've ever read on diet.
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Summary of The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry
Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body ChemistryFor hereditary reasons, your metabolism is unique. Cutting-edge research shows that no single diet works well for everyone-the very same foods that keep your best friend slim may keep you overweight and feeling unhealthy and fatigued. Now, William Wolcott, a pioneer in the field of metabolic research, has developed a revolutionary weight-loss program that allows you to identify your "metabolic type" and create a diet that suits your individual nutritional needs.
In The Metabolic Typing Diet, Wolcott and acclaimed science writer Trish Fahey provide simple self-tests that you can use to discover your own metabolic type and determine what kind of diet will work best for you. It might be a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet filled with pasta and grains, or a high-fat, high-protein diet focused on meat and seafood, or anything in between. By detailing exactly which foods and food combinations are right for you, The Metabolic Typing Diet at last reveals the secret to shedding unwanted pounds and achieving optimum vitality with lasting results.
The Metabolic Typing Diet will enable you to:
Achieve and maintain your ideal weight
Eliminate sugar cravings
Enjoy sustained energy and endurance
Conquer indigestion, fatigue, and allergies
Bolster your immune system
Overcome anxiety, depression, and mood swings
People are unique in more ways than we can see. Stomachs and other internal organs come in many different shapes and sizes. Digestive juices, too, can vary dramatically from one person to another. Thus, according to author William Linz Wolcott, founder of Healthexcel, a company that provides metabolic typing for individuals, it stands to reason that different foods have very different effects on different people.
Wolcott believes that tailoring your diet to your body's particular quirks--metabolic typing--will improve digestion, circulation, immunity, energy, and mood. To determine your type, he has you take a 65-question test (the questions range from nose moisture to how you feel about potatoes), then place yourself in one of three categories: protein type, carbo type, or mixed type.
The protein type is instructed to eat a diet that's 40 percent protein, 30 percent fat, and 30 percent carbs. The carbo type gets 60 percent carbs, 25 percent protein, and 15 percent fat. And the mixed type should consume 50 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 20 percent fat, although this type has to play with the ratios a little more to find the optimal mix.
Although The Metabolic Typing Diet is based on information from researchers the majority of the public will never have heard of, Wolcott makes a strong case that it's all based on common sense: most of the dietary problems we have come from ignoring the foods that make us feel satisfied and energetic in favor of ones that we feel we're supposed to eat, or foods that we eat in desperation because our last meal left us hungry or lethargic. If we just eat the foods that make us feel right, Wolcott argues, we'll never feel like things have gone horribly wrong. --Lou Schuler
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