Book review: The Carb Nite Solution: The Physicist's Guide to Power Dieting (Paperback)
John Kiefer's Carb Nite Solution was one of the most informative nutrition related books I've read and the only one I can recall that includes an entire chapter of citations backing up the text. Using ultra low carb intake plus a weekly carb infusion to kick start the metabolism may be just the key for many who have been unsuccessful with managing bodyweight in the past.
The book is full of science that explains the relationship between food, hormones and energy expenditure and how that impacts keeping or shedding body fat. The author does a good job of keeping the density of scientific text low thus making the information accessible to the non-scientific reader. The section that deals with the fallacies of other plans - South Beach, Zone, Atkins, and others - using the science to demonstrate why those other methods don't work and actually sabotage the goal of healthy weight loss, systemically confronts arguments for alternate diet plans.
This is not a diet plan for life, and Mr. Kiefer notes that one should take a break and not implement this diet for longer than 6 months at a time. Anyone with a history of eating disorder would be advised to approach the plan with caution - while the author instructs readers to approach Carb Nite - the weekly infusion of carbs back into the diet - with reasonable consideration that spreads the intake over 6 - 8 hours and includes eating to satiety not oversaturation, someone with a eating disorder history could take this as permission to binge thus aggravating that condition. For the rest of the population without such a history, this should not be an issue.
Taking on Carb Nite takes planning, and the author has included some tantalizing food plans and recipes. John Kiefer has provided a scientifically based approach to body fat loss that harnesses the body's hormones and restarts the metabolism. This is an excellent book if you want not a fad but a fact based approach to weight loss.
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