The False Fat Diet

by Elson M. Haas, Cameron Stauth

This diet aims to help the reader lose weight fast by identifying the foods that make them look and feel falesly fat - and eliminating the allergy-like food reactions that cause real weight gain. It offers an easy-to-follow regime that can be tailored to the individual and contains recipes and the "no-hunger" programme that aims to bring instant results and long-term benefits.

Genres: Health, Diets

Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Sheryl Valentine]

This is not really a diet book, but one about food intolerance. The top 3 being wheat, dairy and sugar, the others being eggs, corn, peanuts and soy.

[Dawn · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a compelling idea, that food reactions could make you unwell and even fat, but the evidence is primarily anecdotal, and as we all know, anecdote does not equal data. I am tempted to do the blood test, but health insurance is going to be an uncertainty pretty soon for most of us, so I'm thinking it's not something mine would cover. As for doing the elimination tests, the instructions are not really clear on how to add back without repeating foods too often (which in theory, triggers reactions).

I'd have given it two stars, but I want to try the recipes, and there are a lot of them.

[Leslie Herbert · Rating 1 out of 5]

This guy could have given some helpful information about how different people tolerate different foods, but instead he takes some giant leaps into explaining why and how, which no one really knows, and he states made up stuff as scientific fact. Such as: Leaky gut syndrome, "the layer of yeast sludge in your gut", and words like "debris". If you follow all the advice in this book you would have to buy thousands of dollars in supplements.

[Adrienna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty much covers the same material as his other book, New Detox Diet, and I read a little more indepth....

[KM · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is more about how to do an elimination diet and figure out what's causing an inflammatory reaction.

[Charissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

An eye-opening read!