NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER 3.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD Lose weight, lower cholesterol, and reverse the damages from heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and more, using this invaluable high-protein/low-carbohydrate medically proven diet program. If you’ve been living the low-fat, no-fat way and still haven’t lost weight, stop blaming yourself! Instead, turn to the breakthrough metabolic program that replaces lifelong dieting with lifelong health. Based on cutting-edge research, this revolutionary yet simple regimen calls for a new way of eating: a protein-rich, moderate-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that will help you feeling better and more energetic within a week and help correct blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol within three weeks. Not your traditional diet plan, Protein Power teaches you: • that you can eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon, and burgers), cheeses, and eggs • how to make the best selections at fine restaurants or fast-food chains • the best supplements for jump-starting your metabolism to burn fat • how to include wine in your diet for enjoyment and health • muscle-building strength-training exercises • tips for maintaining motivation • to rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!) • and more! With nearly 100 easy-to-prepare, inexpensive, and mouthwatering recipes, along with complete meal plans suitable for family dining or formal entertaining, it’s never been easier to lose weight without sacrificing the foods you love. "The nutritional primer of the nineties." --Barry Sears, author of The Zone Join the thousands who have experienced dramatic weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and improvement or reversal of the damages of heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and other major diseases by following this medically proven program. Protein Power will teach you how to use food as a tool for Dramatic and permanent weight loss Resetting your metabolism and boosting your energy levels Lowering your "bad" cholesterol levels while elevating the "good" Protecting yourself from "The Deadly Diseases of Civilization" (including high blood pressure and heart disease) And best of all, Protein Power encourages you to Eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon, and burgers), cheeses, and eggs Rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!) Stop shocking your body with breads, pastas, and other fat-inducing carbohydrates So prepare yourself for the most dramatic life-enhancing diet program available! Join the thousands who have experienced dramatic weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and improvement or reversal of the damages of heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and other major diseases by following this medically proven program. Protein Power will teach you how to use food as a tool for Dramatic and permanent weight loss Resetting your metabolism and boosting your energy levels Lowering your "bad" cholesterol levels while elevating the "good" Protecting yourself from "The Deadly Diseases of Civilization" (including high blood pressure and heart disease) And best of all, Protein Power encourages you to Eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon, and burgers), cheeses, and eggs Rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!) Stop shocking your body with breads, pastas, and other fat-inducing carbohydrates So prepare yourself for the most dramatic life-enhancing diet program available! Michael R. Eades, M.D., author of Thin So Fast , and Mary Dan Eades, M.D., author of The Doctor's Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals , live in Little Rock, Arkansas, where they practice bariatric (weight loss) and general family medicine. They are the founders of Medi-Stat Medical Centers. Chapter 1   A New Nutritional Perspective   Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.   VOLTAIRE     We have a medical book published in 1822 passed down to Michael from his great-grandfather, a country doctor from the Ozark Mountains. A long section deals with yellow fever—in the 1800s no one knew what caused it or how it spread. Now, of course, we understand that the mosquito is the carrier of the virus that causes yellow fever, but then the cause eluded the best minds in medical science. Read what this standard 1822 medical textbook says about yellow fever:   “… it rises from the exposure of putrid animal and vegetable substances on the public wharfs … it always begins in the lowest part of a populous mercantile town near the water, and continues here without much affecting the higher parts. It rages most where large quantities of new ground have been made by banking out the rivers for the purpose of constructing wharfs. … the yellow fever is generated by the impure