Low Carb Bible

[cajunthunder]

I got this book for $1.43 and started reading through it yesterday. It basically goes over some of the most popular low carb diets then provides ways to personalize a low carb plan for yourself.

Well it's written by a dietician, so the minute you start reading it, you find all of these recommendations for low fat stuff and the usual nutrition recommendations, most of which don't jive with a low carb lifestyle!

It has a section full of recipes, most of which sound and look yummy - HOWEVER, first thing I noticed was all of these brand name products in the recipes, that probably paid to be in the book....... and how many of them were low fat products, egg substitutes, or margarine, etc... Carb counts were decent on some things, but were not on others, IMO. Many of the recipes included things most lifetime low carbers will give up for good or at least not use often, like white bread, sugars and white flour. I kept looking at these recipes and thinking how they could be adjusted to truly fit into a low carb eating plan.

Hardly what I'd call a low carb bible, but I'm guessing most dieticians think we're nutritional heretics, sooooo.

Anyway, just in case anyone was considering adding this one to their library, that's my condensed review of it.

[Jen111]

Re: Low Carb Bible

LOL I was also disappointed and shocked to find all the low-fat propaganda in a book that so flagrantly calls itself a low-carb "Bible". Ditto on the "no-no" ingredients used. That said, I also bought the book.

[Starmaker]

Re: Low Carb Bible

Ditto on some of the low carb magazines found at the checkout stand. I don't see them much anymore, but for awhile there, you could find 2 to 3 different ones right up there with the National Enquirer and Star. A quick glance through showed recipes that were too high in carbs to be do-able for most. And ingredients I had given up years ago...and don't plan on EVER reintroducing.

[Betty]

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Ditto on all of the above, but I did not buy the book.
I subscribed to Low Carb Living magazine, and Now I very upset with them.
I have not received the latest copy of the magazine. I tried the 800 number and it was busy. I have tried that number at different times of the day, different days etc over a period of time and each time the number is busy. I went to their web site and sent an e-mail, and no response.
I looked in the magazine and sent e-mails to a number of the staff and only one person responded telling me to e-mail another person, which I did. The person who responded to my e-mail also said he has not been with the magzine for 7 months. I found it funny that his e-mail addy was still at LCL.
I am sure when my subscription is almost up they will send me a renewal notice, but you can bet I won't be renewing.

[cajunthunder]

Re: Low Carb Bible

I subscribed to Low Carb Living Magazine in March - still haven't received an issue. Maybe they went belly up and are in hiding?

As to the Low Carb Bible, I'm glad I didn't spend much on it. Like I said, many of the recipes can be altered to truly fit into a low carb diet, and it was interesting reading about some of the other low carb type diets.... but I think it was just an attempt to make some bucks by riding the wave of low carb mania that hit a year or so ago - the book was published in 2003.

Unfortunately, there are probably people using it as their guideline to low carb and are probably hitting a brick wall due to it's contradictory information.