The Obesity Cure: Weight Control, Metabolic Health, Revitalized Youth With Power Amino Acids

by George Scheele

At last, a breakthrough in nutritional science that identifies both the cause and solution of obesity, America's Number 1 metabolic disease. Using a lifetime of scientific achievement and clinical insight, Nobel associate and author, Dr. George Scheele, explains how to use nature's gift - Power Amino Acids® - to avoid "addictive taste disorders" and harness the body's own feedback mechanisms to tame appetite, rebalance metabolism, and normalize body weight. In The Obesity Cure , Dr. Scheele shows that obesity is only one in a spectrum of metabolic diseases associated with the Metabolic Syndrome and accelerated aging. He demonstrates how the current "paradoxes" of obesity and metabolic health prove that something essential is missing in our current understanding of nutritional health and weight control. The Obesity Cure identifies the missing "piece" as Power Amino Acids. These essential ingredients have the ability to correct deficiencies in the food chain, including positively-charged amino acids, proteins, and metabolic pathways that adversely affect satiety, metabolic health, and body weight.

Genres: Nonfiction

294 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2012

Reviews

[John Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have known the author for many years and we carried out research on similar and related areas of pancreatic biology for over 20 years. The area of obesity research is relatively new to George and he is trying to use his scientific knowledge to how people lose weight, an admirable goal. The book is relatively easy to read and generally clear. The problem I had with the book is that it is really trying to do three things at once. The first is to be a serious review for the layperson of the history of using diet to treat obesity where he shows the problems with mainstream low fat diet and suggests that many people eating a high carbohydrate diet are amino acid deficient and he postulates that they particularly lack positively charged amino acids and that positively charged proteins are deficient. However, their is no scientific documentation referred to which limits its value to an in depth reader or scientist. The second way of interpreting the book is as a sales job for the amino acid supplements that his company sells. Because of this he adds in terms like "Power amino acids" and "Supercharged health" which seem over the top to me. Finally parts of the book are like a scientific autobiography describing the authors contributions to science with an emphasis on the Nobel Prize winners that he worked with. At times each of these gets in the way of the others. This does not distract from the value of the book but lowered the number of stars I gave it. His description of the problems of eating too much refined sugar and carbohydrates are right on in my opinion. His recommended diet is most like the South Beach Diet but includes his amino acid supplement which contains positive and essential amino acid supplements and is designed to be mixed into a shake or smoothie. Will it reduce appetite and body weight? I don't know and their apparently have been no clinical trials. It is important to point out that his supplement is different from the protein or amino acids supplements sold to promote muscle development. I am still trying to decide whether to try some myself.