Do you still have the book? Out of curiosity I would
love to know what those 10 foods are. Plus my husband
needs to lower his cholesterol and our doc told him to
go strictly Paleo, but he has a hard time saying no to
the non-Paleo carbs.

Kristina

--- Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It's funny you mention this.  At various times on
> this list we have
> discussed the "steak lover's diet" book, by Melvin
> Anchell, MD.  You can
> find it in the archives.  It's a rather strange
> diet, neither strictly
> paleo nor extremely lowcarb.  I bought the book a
> few years back after
> thumbing through it in the bookstore, and found it
> interesting, to say
> the least.  Then I tried it, and experienced the
> most amazing weight
> loss I've ever had.  I've repeated the experiment
> and the result has
> always been the same: dramatic weight loss,
> especially in the first few
> weeks, even more than other lowcarb/paleo plans.
> Others on this list
> tried it, with less dramatic results.  Anyway,
> Anchell's diet allows
> unlimited portions of meats, with their accompanying
> fats, and at each
> meal there is one limited ("ordinary") portion of
> one of ten non-meat
> foods that he lists.  He makes no pretense of
> explaining why these ten
> non-meat foods and not others; he just says that
> these work and others
> don't.  The thing that stands out in my memory is
> his claim that when
> meat is eaten in this way, there is no conversion to
> fat.  He didn't
> provide any documentation, just the assertion.  I
> don't remember the
> exact wording but the gist of his claim was that
> whatever is not needed
> is broken down and excreted without being converted
> to sugar or fat, as
> long as the diet contains no carbs other than the
> limited amounts from
> the magic list.  I remember underlining the passage
> in my book and
> writing question marks in the margins.  There are so
> many *ipse dixits*
> in diet books, I figured this was just one more, and
> perhaps it was.
> Then again, maybe he was right...
>
> Todd Moody
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