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. If smoked salmon and cream cheese omelets, sautéed jumbo shrimp, and double-patty burgers suit your palate, belly up to the Protein Power diet: "Not a high protein diet" but "an adequate protein diet." Doctors Michael R. and Mary Dan Eades make a persuasive case in favor of "the diet we were meant to eat." Similar to Dr. Robert Atkins's New Diet Revolution , the authors cite insulin as the main culprit in weight gain and expound the benefits of a diet extremely low in carbohydrates. Carbohydrates, which are changed into sugar during digestion, stimulate the body to store fat, making weight loss virtually impossible. The most revolutionary idea put forth in Protein Power is that the fat you eat has very little bearing on the fat you gain: in other words, we aren't what we eat after all. Researchers have found that eating larger portions of protein in conjunction with severely reduced portions of carbohydrates causes people to burn the excess fat stored in their bodies. Protein Power is packed with helpful charts and formulas, so you can estimate your body-fat percentage and your ideal weight for your particular body composition. There are worksheets to calculate your protein need and carbohydrate and protein equivalency charts, as well as charts that allow you to track your fat and weight loss. But this book is not all grams and percentages: it also shows you what a day of eating on this diet would look like and includes sample menus and 70 pages of recipes. If you've been starving yourself for years and just can't seem to lose weight, this may be the diet for you. --Jhana Bach "The nutritional primer of the nineties." --Barry Sears, author of The Zone An effective, medically sound diet that lets you eat bacon, eggs, steak, even cheese? It's true!  Lose fat.  Feel fit.  Stop craving.  Without counting fat grams and without giving up the foods you love. Based on cutting-edge research, this revolutionary and deliciously satisfying plan has already helped thousands of patients lose weight and achieve other lifesaving health benefits, including lower cholesterol and blood pressure readings and an improvement or reversal of common disorders such as heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and gout.  Developed by Doctors Michael and Mary Dan Eades, the simple regimen calls for a new way of eating: a protein-rich, moderate-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that will have you feeling better and more energetic within a week, and help correct blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol within three weeks.  So 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. An effective, medically sound diet that lets you eat bacon, eggs, steak, even cheese? It's true! Lose fat. Feel fit. Stop craving. Without counting fat grams and without giving up the foods you love. Based on cutting-edge research, this revolutionary and deliciously satisfying plan has already helped thousands of patients lose weight and achieve other lifesaving health benefits, including lower cholesterol and blood pressure readings and an improvement or reversal of common disorders such as heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and gout. Developed by Doctors Michael and Mary Dan Eades, the simple regimen calls for a new way of eatin