Eat Fat Get Thin

  Barry Groves, PhD (Second Opinions)

This is one of those nifty little books that pack a lot more between the covers than you would suspect.   It is also just one more nail in the coffin of the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet in the United Kingdom and in the United States.  The evidence is coming in much more quickly and more convincingly than anyone might have suspected.  Just in the New York Times alone, there have been two major articles published exposing the low-fat lies of the establishment.  Time after time in study after study, the facts always come out like this:  The subjects who ate the high carbohydrate diets got sicker and fatter the longer they ate them.  The subjects who ate the high-fat, low carb diets not only lost weight but got WELL from numerous "chronic" diseases, too. 

Dr. Groves uses a relaxed tone in this book to explain the uselessness of calorie counts and the hollowness of the anti-saturated-fat claims.  In just a short book, he lays it all out for us, and even has room for recipes.  Since the book is published in England, there are spelling differences and terms that Americans are unfamiliar with, like a flatfish called a "bloater."  This does not take away from the wealth of information found in the book, though.  So just skim over the words you don't understand.  The important parts are all in plain English.

Dr. Robert C. Atkins didn't really start it all, but his books are the most famous in the U.S., with Eades' books right behind.  Like Atkins and the Eadeses, Dr. Groves is also his own guinea pig, having tried the low carb regimen first before recommending it.  From start to finish, his book is very readable.  He doesn't go into a lot of scientific explanation (probably because he really doesn't have to...Low-carb eaters are frequently well-informed and thrilled with their results).  People who had numerous "chronic" problems find their health dramatically improved.  Diabetes, hypoglycemia, heart and artery disease are all diminished by the simple removal of sugars and starches and the return of good natural saturated fats and proteins into the diet.  

Is Groves' diet for weight loss or health restoration?  I believe that any low-carbohydrate diet that contains plenty of saturated fatty acids and few or no refined carbohydrates is the quintessential "cure-all."  It won't cure some conditions, of course, but believe me, it has a lot better track record of cures of various diseases than any of the prescription drugs that doctors invariably and repeatedly throw at these conditions.  The felicitous fact that superfluous body fat is consumed while eating a low-carb diet should just be one more indication that obesity is a consequence of insulin pathology subsequent to a carbohydrate-heavy diet.

American doctors have two strikes against them:  First, they are educated in schools that rely heavily on grants, endowments, and special research funding from the very food giants and pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and market the refined diet that makes people sick. Then there are the pills and medications that the doctors prescribe by the ton for the diseases people get when they eat the diet provided by the food giants. Where's the medical industry's intere$t in this?  (Don't make me have to tell you...)  

Second, they rarely consider NUTRITION as a cause for any disease.  They are trained to treat one symptom at a time.  They really are ignorant of the real nutrition facts that should underlie their educations.  Doctors today are as brainwashed as their patients. They prescribe a faulty diet to correct a diet-induced disease, then medicate. When the patient gets sicker on the bad diet and the medications poison him, the doctor not only makes the diet more restrictive and dangerous, but increases the dosage on the medication until the patient eventually dies from the doctor's good intentions. 

Doctors can only pass on what they have been taught. If what they have been taught is the propaganda their owners demand, then the consumer (and the doctor) are not going to be told the truth about the synthetic diet.  It is very sad to see a doctor who is supposedly very well-educated leading patient after patient into diet-induced disease and misery for the simple reason that he doesn't know any better.

My recommendation is to read this book and add it to your REAL NUTRITION library without delay.  It is available from Dr. Groves' website at the link provided above.