Thanks for the detailed review.  I found a used copy
on amazon for three dollars and change.  There are
several more copies available from various amazon
sellers in the same price range.

Mark




:

> I'm currently reading an interesting book by HL
> Newbold called Type A Type 
> B Weightloss.  My interest in this book arose after
> I'd read a study he 
> conducted on his patients with high cholesterol
> levels.  He advocated what 
> he called a "stone age" diet and believed that meat
> and fat were not the 
> problem but rather the addition of "new foods" and
> certain "modern" foods-- 
> which he defined as grains, sugar, milk and milk
> products although he notes 
> some can tolerate unsalted butter, beans, peas, all
> processed foods, all 
> foods that must be cooked before they can be eated,
> and NUTS -- he says 
> that although they are not a "new food," they were
> unavailable to our 
> European ancestors during the 65,000 year Wurm
> glaciation. And he 
> postulates that this length of time was sufficient
> for many of his patients 
> to have inherited a biochemistry that cannot
> function properly with nuts. 
> Nuts have always created uncontrollable binges for
> me -- I just cannot eat 
> a reasonable amount --so maybe his theory holds true
> for me.  Anyway, 
> Newbold allowed his patients fresh meat WITH the fat
> intact, and up to 
> several servings of raw fruit and veggies.  All of
> the patients saw their 
> cholesterol plummet after several months despite
> eating plenty of fatty 
> meat.  
> 
> Newbold himself had always been slender until after
> medical school.  As an 
> overworked, underpaid young doctor, he and his
> collegues became hooked on 
> the unlimited sweets, starchy meals and goodies etc
> that they were given at 
> the cafeteria -- he said they all started to gain
> weight but it wasn't 
> until he had a heart attack that he decided to do
> something about his 
> weight.  Low calorie left him hungry and weak --
> through trial and error he 
> realized that animal protein with the fat and
> limited raw veggies and raw 
> fruit enabled him to lose weight quickly and also
> gave him tremendous 
> energy -- also, his previously "high" cholesterol
> plummeted.  
> 
> What is interesting/different about his book is that
> he discusses the 
> ability of "new" foods to create food addictions
> where one MUST have a 
> certain food and where the elimination of such foods
> causes temporary 
> physical withdrawal symptoms ie headache, nausea,
> sweating, restlessness, 
> irritability, fatigue etc.  He also explains that
> new foods can also 
> cause "spree" eating -- insatiable binging where you
> eat and eat until you 
> feel like you could explode!  A person can suffer
> from both types of 
> problems -- Newbold says he himself suffered from
> both and that both 
> completely knock out one's appestat.  There is also
> interesting info on the 
> ability of other things such as chemicals,cooking
> methods, molds etc to 
> completely knock out one's appestat.
> 
> This book is out of print -- but well worth the
> search for it at used 
> booksellers or inter-library loan
> 



 
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