Product Description

Healthier than Dr Atkins, huge in the States, this all-new weight loss plan is the last diet you'll ever need.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #916096 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Impressively modern in design, The No-Grain Diet brings a realistic viewpoint to the problems of weight loss in a genuine effort to improve the health of an ever-growing number of obese people. Offering a variety of "food plans," along with a set of techniques aimed at controlling emotional eating and cravings for "bad" foods, Dr Joseph Mercola clearly understands how to motivate--in one section, he suggests that rather than "living by the scale," we measure our success in relation to the fit of our favourite pair of slightly-too-snug jeans. Many recipes are included, most of which are free of the boring flavour substitutes so common in diet books.

The diet itself combines several familiar concepts. The "no grain" model emphasises organic vegetables and quality protein, with limited fruits and absolutely no simple carbs. Mercola's idea of "quality protein" is somewhat startling--he is deeply concerned about toxins, and urges grass-fed beef over potentially mercury-filled fish. His main point is frequently reinforced: refined grains of any type are basically deadly and eating them should be viewed as an unhealthy addiction.

Here, the book veers off in a new direction: rather than gently nudging our habits in a new direction, he suggests we break what he insists is an addictive cycle with a method called "EFT," or "Emotional Freedom Technique." As a way to avoid surrendering to desires, his system of tapping acupressure points and repeating affirmations is used to overcome them. While repeat dieters will understand the necessity of examining emotional ties to food, Mercola's voice becomes a tad strident, and possibly downright offensive to those with a different opinion on what constitutes an addiction. --Jill Lightner, Amazon.com

About the Author
Dr Joseph Mercola is an osteopathic physician and director of the Optimal Wellness Center, his medical clinic in Chicago. Trained in both alternative and traditional medicine, he has served as chairman of the family medicine department at St Alexius Medical Center, Chicago, for over five years. He lives in the Chicago area.

Customer Reviews

No grain, No Pain Diet
I read The No Grain Diet once from cover to cover and then again, making notes. This was an easy book to read. I know a bit about EFT and found the explanation of how to use it to breakdown emotional issues and remove cravings valuable.
The eating plan is healthy and the theme throughought the book is one of optimum health and disease prevention. During the first week on the plan, I felt fantastic, more alert, lost weight and inches and best of all didn't feel hungry at all.

Wanna buy a book?
It is hard to comment favourably on this book. The author has taken 312 pages to say what could be said more effectively in less than 100 pages. Like the late Dr Aitkens who excelled in promoting himself, this author emulates his style. He seems more concerned about his personal pronoun than the topic under discussion. His self-congratulatory style is distracting. Should anyone wish to buy this copy, then it's going cheap!

There are better books on the subject
Although Mercola covers many of the major concerns of grain consumption, such as insulin response, there are better books on the subject such as those on Paleolithic nutrition and The Glucose Revolution.

You can guess the gist of the diet from the title, but the Emotional Freedom Technique is a little added eccentricity.

If your diet is satisfying in itself, why would you need EFT to reinforce your behaviour? You'd have to be tapped!