Book Review
"Stay Off My Operating Table" 
5/5 stars
"A surgeon speaks on sustainable diets" 
*******
There are essentially three types of diets:

1. Count calories; 
2. Count carbs; 
3. Count time

There is a lot of overlap in these books about ways to lose weight, and so I just have to think what does this author bring to the table that is new: 

1. He actually gives us numbers that we can use to determine metabolic health. All of them are easily found in your chart from your semi-annual physical. 

2. He redefines metabolic health as a process and not an end goal. So, you are metabolically only as good as your last meal. If you fast and lose huge amounts of weight or do the Atkins and lose huge amounts of weight, is there any stopping point? 

What he says is that if you just be judicious about each meal and make small modifications that are sustainable, then the goal is a foregone conclusion. 

3. The doctor is a heart surgeon, and while a lot of people have been physicians who have written these popular books (Jason Fung / Peter Atkins), a heart surgeon really is the extreme and of metabolic syndrome. And he sees the worst cases all day, everyday, several times a day.

That's not a level of experience to be taken lightly.

4. Not all olive oil is olive oil, and this doctor takes the trouble to let us know which brands are acceptable.


Verdict: Strongly recommended.The book is only 158 easy pages and it is so short that there's really no excuse not to read it. 

*****
There are things that you should find no place for: 

1. Grains, potatoes, starches 
2. Processed foods 
3. High fructose corn syrup