Best seller list Oct 1-Dec 31, 2007
Q4 2007 #1 best seller
Once again it’s time to see what books readers of this blog are reading. Or at least what they are purchasing from Amazon.com by going through this site. The rules are that I don’t include any books that have my or MD’s name as writer or co-writer.
Here’s the list.
#1 The Brain Trust Program by Larry McCleary M.D.
#2 Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
#3 200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes by Dana Carpender
#4 The Great Cholesterol Con by Malcolm Kendrick, M.D.
#5 Extreme Lo-Carb Meals on the Go by Sharron Long
#6 15-Minute Low Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender
#7 Carb Wars: Sugar is the New Fat by Judy Barnes Baker
#8 500 Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender
#9 How’s Your Drink by Eric Felten
#10 A Nation of Sheep by Andrew P. Napolitano
If you compare this list to the last one, you can see that many of the books are the same, but in a little different order. The Brain Trust Program, which I reviewed a couple of months ago, leap frogged over Good Calories, Bad Calories to the #1 spot on the list. But not by much. A couple of newcomers replaced two that fell off the list. The terrific book Stumbling on Happiness dropped off as did The Great Cholesterol Con, the version written by my very close friend Anthony Colpo. And I’m not kidding, Anthony’s book really did fall from the list. In fact, not a single copy sold through this website during the past three months. (If you’re contemplating Anthony’s latest, The Fat Loss Bible, I can save you $40. Here’s the synopsis: eat less, exercise more. And never, ever, ever believe there could possibly be a metabolic advantage.)
Those of you who through this site bought table saws, printers, household goods, toner cartridges, tee shirts, DVDs, CDs, and video games along with all the books have my great appreciation. With the combined Amazon and Google income I was able to cover all the hosting charges and about a third of my web guy expenses for the last quarter. Thank you very much. And keep buying.
Remember, I can’t tell from the reports I get who bought what, so if you want to go naughty, don’t worry about my finding out and posting on the blog. I can say, however, that this group is a totally un-naughty group because there wasn’t a single off color book or movie purchased.
I am proud to see that enough of you bought Eric Felten’s book on the history of various alcoholic cocktails to catapult it onto the list at #9. Eric is the booze columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He tracks down the history of various drinks and experiments to find the best way to make them. And his version – at least in my experience – is the best tasting of all. His book is one of my and MD’s favorites. We take his basic versions and make them low-carb.
His recipe for a gimlet makes the best one I’ve ever had. Even the low-carb version (which is the only version of his I’ve ever had.)
2 ounces of gin (We use Bombay Sapphire)
1/2 ounce Rose’s Lime Juice (It’s got to be Rose’s, which is available everywhere)
1/4-1/2 ounce simple syrup (which we make with about 1/2 ounce water mixed with a packet of Splenda)
Mix it all in a glass filled with ice, add a piece of lime, and you’ve got a drink fit for Raymond Chandler. (I’ll explain in a coming post – MD and I just had a Raymond Chandler adventure)
Enjoy.
I’d also be interested in any advice on finding a LC-friendly Doctor in the St. Louis/St. Charles, MO area. I FINALLY found a studio that has a workout similar to what Fred Hahn recommends. It’s based more on Adam Zickerman’s “Power of 10″ than on your, MD’s and Fred’s “Slow Burn,” but the basics seem the same. I’d like to find a Dr. who’s ‘on-board’ with the low-carb lifestyle and slow cadence lifting, also.
Dr. Eades,
I too ask that you plea with your tech guy re: the archives. I was convinced that it was just me who could not find them anymore.
BTW, have just finished reading PPLP. Outstanding. I did purchase it through your Amazon link , so if you ever think about generous offer again, so that it can be ordered by non-US residents, I will certainly take you up on it and give the copy to a deserving individual here north of the 49th!
OK, probably pushing my luck there on that one…..:)
Hi RC–
The archives are back up.
We are working on a new shipping deal with the USPS, but, as with all governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, nothing works quickly. When we get it all resolved, I’ll see what I can do about books to those people who requested them from other countries.
Cheers–
MRE
Yeah, the reason a bear gains so much weight preparing for hibernation is that it eats everything–including CARBOHYDRATES!
A bear is an omnivore and when it piles up carbs on top of all the protein and fat, of course it’s going to gain weight.
Yes, indeed.
Cheers–
MRE
Wow! I actually have both the AC books. The FLB was suspect in my opinion. So I will be waiting for the post whenever you get to it. Also that photo of him with his shirt pulled up did certainly seem to me that he has an ego problem.
You’re right about this Razwell character though. I like how he put the Dr. in quotes and capitalized the “ass” in assure. Thinking is definitely not part of this guy’s actions anymore. Sounds like AC has the starting of a cult here, whether he wants it or not. Could he be Scientologist also because he sounds like Cruise spouting off.
All the best,
Joe
Hmm. The Cult of Colpo. Has a nice ring, doesn’t it. People could say, I’m a Colpoist, which means that I don’t believe in the metabolic advantage. And those who do are ruining the world.
The only problem I see with such a cult is in the numbers. Don’t you have to have more than five people to make a cult?
Cheers–
MRE
Okay, no dice for Shreveport but let’s expand… southern Arkansas, east Texas, southeastern Oklahoma.
If any low-carb docs come to mind, advise. Thanks much.
Will do. Readers, any help here?
Cheers–
MRE
Car Talk (the PBS radio show) uses a search engine called ‘Find a great mechanic’
enter ZIP____ and enter within:____ Miles and hit Search. They also have a survey and comments section. It worked for me. The website is http://www.cartalk.com/index.html.
It is probably a lot of time and effort to get it up and running, but I think it would be useful to look at (their website) instead of reinventing the wheel, if you decide to pursue it.
On another subject, I’m reminded of something Gary Taubes said about medical authorities not trusting the public to be able to ascertain the results of a low carb diet, i.e. if it isn’t working, they’ll stop it. If we decide you don’t know what you’re talking about and that Mr. Colpo does, we’ll listen to him instead.
P.S. Razwell, Michael Eades is a Medical Doctor. Last I knew Anthony Colpo wasn’t, so why the quotes around Dr.?
Hey Mark–
I took a look at the Car Talk search engine. It’s pretty impressive…and probably more than I would want to take on right now. But I may run it by my web guy just to see what it would take. If I were to have it in place, however, I would be a little concerned about who selected the doctors on the list. I had a bad experience with this once. About 12 years ago, MD and I met a doc from Southern California at a medical meeting. We really hit it off with this guy and went out to dinner with him and his wife a few times. This was right after Protein Power had come out, so we spent a lot of time talking about the book and our low-carb philosophy. This guy was totally on board – he told us how he put all his patients on low-carb diets and had had great results. Not long after the last time we all got together a PP reader from Southern California called our clinic asking if we knew any docs in his area who were low-carb diet proponents whom we could recommend. I recommended our doctor friend. About a week later we got a hot call from this patient telling us that he had gone to see this doc, and that the doc had given him a copy of the Zone diet and wrote him an Rx for phen-fen. I later learned that this was the SOP for this doc. So, after that experience I almost hate to recommend docs I haven’t actually worked with or that I don’t know really well. I would feel more comfortable with a site on which others who have had direct patient experience with physicians commented. Which is how the Car Talk site works, so it would be patients recommending.
Don’t get worked up over these Colpo acolytes and their unschooled attempts at sarcasm. I actually enjoy it. It’s too easy to engage in a battle of wits with them when most of them show up on the site only half prepared. And it gives insight to other readers of just what kind of followers our friend Anthony has.
Cheers–
MRE
Speaking of Tolstoy . . . I’m reading Anna Karenina again and it seems Tolstoy was a low-carb believer. In one spot he says of Count Vronsky “…he had to be careful not to get fatter and therefore avoided sweets and starchy foods.” Cool huh?
Very cool. That’s a famous quote, BTW. Especially in low-carb literary circles.
Cheers–
MRE
I think I saw a study somewhere that linked steroid use with the overuse of the CAPS Lock key.
That explains everything.
Cheers–
MRE
Dr. Mike Eades compared buttock tone with the Maasai , while Morgan Freeman and Bruce Lee read an article by the intelligible Anthony Colpo disputing the Metabolic Advantage Theory on the tropical beaches of Cancun.
Morgan Freeman and Bruce Lee wrote a peer reviewed article in the Journal Of The American Medical Association about the lack of evidence supporting The Metabolic Advantage Theory and the stupidity of Michael Eades.
Still no evidence to refute Anthony, “Dr.”?
The One And Only,
Razwell
Probably no evidence that you could understand, Razwell.
Oh, BTW, another brilliant comment. Makes a lot of sense. Keep on writing and thinking, because, as I said before, that’s what you’re good at.
Cheers–
MRE
Dr. Eades, you are such a true blessing to us. Your blog has given me more useful information, etc. than any other doctor I shelled out a lot of my hard-earned money to, has.
Because I am suffering in menopause I am now going to get the Brain Trust program for help. Thank you for publishing a review of it.
Here’s hoping you and your lovely wife work on another book sometime in the future to add to my library of your books.
Please keep up this wonderful blog; it’s the best around.
Thanks very much for the kind words. I’m glad you’ve gotten some benefit from our scribblings. And we do have another book in the works.
Cheers–
MRE