Best seller list April 1-Sep 30, 2008
I usually try to put up a best seller list of all the books readers of this blog ordered through the Amazon links every quarter. I just realized that I missed a quarter, so I’ll do the list for the last two quarters as one. I love bestseller lists, so I assume everyone else does, too. It’s nice to know what your fellow low-carb enthusiasts are reading.
These are books purchased through the Amazon links on this blog, MD’s blog, and the Protein Power website. As always, the rules for selection are that no books authored or co-authored by MD and/or me are included. Only those written by others.
The number one book on the list was Crucial Conversations, a book I reviewed back in June. This a tremendously good book that you should grab a copy of and read if you haven’t. It’s one of those books that truly can change your life.
Here are the books in descending order of sales.
#1 Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al (Review)
#2 Mistakes Were Made by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (Review)
#3 Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes (Review)
#4 The Brain Trust Program by Larry McCleary, M.D. (Review)
#5 500 Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender
#6 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender
#7 200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes by Dana Carpender
#8 The Great Cholesterol Con by Malcolm Kendrick, M.D. (Review)
#9 Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. (Review)
#10 Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution by Richard Bernstein, M.D.
These are the books your fellow readers are reading.
I thank all of you who have purchased books, clothing, music, DVDs, household goods, sunglasses (several pairs), and even a wood chipping device through the Amazon portals on this site. I really appreciate it. The income from these Amazon purchases goes toward maintaining this site, which costs me about $800 per month. The Amazon take covers about a fifth of that.
If you’ll indulge me a little, I’ll make on of those maddening pitches that fundraisers use on public TV and radio. (MD and I actually did one of those phonathons once to raise money for Milwaukee PBS, which filmed our Low-Carb CookwoRx PBS series. It was dreadful. We had to be interviewed and beg for money on behalf of the station. Not really my cup of tea.) But, here I am with hat in hand. I don’t know if you know it or not, but if you go to Amazon through one of the links on this site (this blog, MD’s blog or the PP website) and shop for anything – not just the books linked on the blog, but anything – we get a tiny piece of the action just because you went there through our site. It doesn’t cost you anything more, just the effort to go to this site and click one of the little book icons for our books to enter Amazon, and start shopping. And, as I’ve said before, all I get is a list of stuff that was purchased and what my tiny cut of it is – I can’t tell who bought what. So, if you’re contemplating a naughty book or video, don’t hesitate to purchase it through this site. I’ll never know who you are, just what you bought. I can tell you, though, that readers of this blog are a clean minded lot. I don’t think there has ever been an offcolor book or video purchased. There it is. My whinathon for help to keep this site paid for. Thanks for listening.
“You can always go to your physician and ask for a phlebotomy. We used to take blood from patients who wanted to reduce iron stores but, for whatever reason, couldn’t donate through regular channels.”
Ahhh yes, but there is one small catch. First you have to find an MD who is not only concerned about elevated iron levels but willing to do something about it. Good luck. It would be easier to get an MD in Canada to perform a frontal lobotomy than to perform a phlebotomy. My spouse’s iron has been climbing steadily for years ever since she went through menopause. She has seen several MDs since that time, both male and female. They only thing they have suggested is to not eat red meat. The only other advice they have offered is for her to come in for tests once a year so they can ‘keep an eye on it’ (the iron levels). That’s what they have been doing. And every time she has her serum ferritin levels checked they tell her the tests show her iron levels are still climbing. There is some good news. So far none of the statin makers have funded research that suggests statins would benefit women with high iron levels.
Any suggestions Dr. Eades? Is self-bleeding practical? At one time barbers used to offer blood-letting as part of their services. The medical profession labeled the practice ‘snake oil’. But looking back, maybe the barbers of yesteryear had more going for them than the physicians.
Well, if she isn’t on blood thinners or doesn’t have other health problems prohibiting it, why doesn’t she just go to the Red Cross (which surely must exist in Canada) and donate blood. If that isn’t an option, then she could pop across the border, and any number of physicians in the US would be willing to phlebotomize her for a price. I don’t think phlebotomy is one of those things you want to try as a DIY project at home. It could be really messy.
Hey guys! I have a shameless plug for my good buddy menu blog. He undertaken Jimmy Moore challenge to post daily meals on line for everyone to see how other people eat on low carb plan. My friend called his plan 5 plus one and only meal, meaning 5 whey protein shakes and one full wholesome meal along with bunch of mulit vitamins, magnesium , and potassium. I still think it is quite unbalanced and some other people think that too. But he is doing it his way! Check it out and tell me if it is an ok plan?
http://vadimsuinverse.blogspot.com/
It is pretty entertaining too. Vadim always tries to invoke politics into discussion. He always defends individual freedom and gets pissed when people tell others how to live their lives, Here is a recent political input where he compares prediabetes with socialism, i think it was funny!
Lynn, lol you are right socialism is not communism, but… Insulin resistence is not diabetes either, but.. A person eats a lot of sweets, and considering he or she suffers from compromised metabolic syndrome, developes hyperinsulinimia. Heperinsulinimia usually, notice, usually will lead to hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia will lead to odd and comftable symptoms. Odd and uncomftable symptoms will usually lead to eating more sweets, which in turn makes pancreas pump up more and more insulin until one day prediabetes becomes diabetes due to overworked Beta cells which produce insulin. Socialism is like prediabetes in political system. It usually starts with an idea of social distribution, then it leads to more taxation ( similar to more insulin ), more taxation will lead to very uncomftable symptoms,like corporations cutting jobs, will lead to even more taxation to keep socialism afloat, which will eventually lead to very tired social system and eventually to an idea of communism, which means total government control and total redistribution. I do believe it and I lived through it!
Inaccurate. I purposely purchased a bit of naughty through the website. You seemed so disappointed the last couple of times you issued the buying report that none of us low-carbers were groovin the porn, I bought a book/DVD or two…
Love the blog…
Hmmm. Maybe my naughtiness detector wasn’t at full sensitivity. I’ll keep a closer eye on it. Order up.
I can just imagine what will happen when Slavin and her cohorts in the high carb camp get their hands on this research.
Researcher studies ways to help cows bear more calves
November 22, 2008 – 6:40 PM
An animal scientist’s research is exploring ways to save dairy farmers thousands of dollars a year by helping prevent miscarriages in cows.
Smith’s research has shown that increased insulin levels due to starchy food raise the amounts of progesterone, a hormone necessary for maintaining pregnancy, in cattle. He hopes to find a way to increase those insulin levels without decreasing milk production.
God help us.
Dr. Eades, in reply to your question about what city was running CookwoRx, it was in Indianapolis on Brighthouse Cable. It was not the regular PBS station (WFYI) but a supplemental PBS+ channel that had lots of instructional shows on cooking, crafts, etc.
Ah, yes. Indianapolis, home of Shapiro’s Deli. Thanks.
Hey Dr. Mike!
I was reading through some old posts and found this comment from you:
“The heart operates about 28 percent more efficiently on ketones than it does on glucose.”
That’s fascinating! Do you have the full reference on that? I’d love to read it. I wonder what brain efficiency is on ketones vs glucose?
Be well,
Ben
Sure. here it is.
Veech, R. L. “The Therapeutic Implications of Ketone Bodies: The Effects of Ketone Bodies in Pathological Conditions: Ketosis, Ketogenic Diet, Redox States, Insulin Resistance, and Mitochondrial Metabolism.” Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 70, no. 3 (2004): 309-19.
Here is the PubMed link.
Sorry to go off topic, but I think your opinion and thoughts on a burning question of mine would be much appreciated by me and perhaps your other faithful readers.
Namely, what is your take on the Kitavans and their supposed paradoxical good health while eating large amounts of high GI foods?
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/08/kitavans-wisdom-from-pacific-islands.html
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/11/fructose-index-is-new-glycemic-index.html
Thanks in advance.
This was the first question Gary Taubes answered in the post from just a few days ago. Go here to read all about it.
If readers are interested in Kindle versions of books like Protein Power, they can voice their interest via amazon.com – just click on the link ” Please tell the publisher I’d like to read this book on Kindle”. The link is below the cover picture on the left side of the screen.
That’s good to know. For Kindle lovers, I guess. I haven’t made the leap yet. MD is hot for one, though. Not for her – for me. She’s tired of dealing with books all over everywhere. I think I know what will be under the tree for me in a month. But will I use it? We’ll see.
Dr. Mike, I hope you weren’t serious about paying $800 a month for the site, that’s absolute insanity. As someone “in the industry” (how cheesey that sounds), I can’t see any reason it would go over $100 or so…
Hope you aren’t getting hosed by Blog and SEO “consultants” (as the bottom of the page says).
This isn’t really a sales pitch (unless it SHOULD BE, hah) – I just get agitated when good people get taken for a ride by us nerdy types!
It costs me $500-$900 per month to maintain the site. This isn’t just hosting, but includes all kinds of other things. The guys who maintain my site do all the WordPress upgrades and make sure all the plug ins are updated and continue to work. They do maintenance on our shopping cart (which seems to always gobble up a few hours every month) and all the other parts of our website that seem to continuously require diddling with as well. We have no SEO consultants. Nor do we have any blog consultants, although often I wish I did have one.
To David MacPhail: interesting book at library “Survival of the Sickest” by Sharon Moalem linking Alzheimers, high-iron and permanent tan for which he did serious research (since my mother had Alzheimers and a permanent tan, I wonder about the high iron). His grandfather had all three, which started him on the research.
To Dr. Eades: In the same book the author speculated on a possible combination of diabetes and Scandinavians and cold caused by an ice age: high rates of diabetes follow ice fields, so maybe high blood sugar was an adaptation to survive???