The Starch Solution

Contains lots of recipes to try at home. Also easy to understand facts for the scientifically minded, that completely debunks modern myths about diet and health. For any urban Indian, like me, who lives on a mix of oily desi food, and western junk food, this was a real eye opener. A must read for anyone who wants to improve their health with food alone. Not just loose weight, mind you, but reverse most modern heath problems as well. Wish I'd found this book 10 years earlier.

Well researched and practised book on healthy eating. Coming from a Doctor, with very clear explanations for common doubts and objections. The explanations are clear, crisp and without mixing of words. Search for Indian recipes on YouTube.

Absolutely loved reading this book, it is so eye opening and recommends a very sustainable plant based diet. It is a must read for everyone!

Very useful book

The most comprehensive book on usefulness of starches and how by choosing plant based whole foods can rejuvenate our body

Excellent

Quality of book is good but the matter inside the book is senseless. It just talks about being vegetarian.

I followed this and lost about 5kg in 3 months.

Dr. John McDougall ist ein Star unter den Veganen Ärzten. Er versucht seit den Siebziger Jahren die Leute davon zu überzeugen, dass wir Menschen darauf ausgelegt sind, vor allem anderen Stärke zu Essen. Was seinen Ansatz von anderen Ernährungsexperten unterscheidet ist, dass er zusätzlich darauf plädiert auch pflanzliche Fette zu meiden. Er hat ein 10 Tage Intensivkurs in dem er den Menschen, die sich das leisten können, sein Ernährungskonzept nahe bringt und die Ergebnisse können sich wirklich sehen lassen. Für all diejenigen von uns die nicht das Geld haben für 10 Tage nach Santa Rosa zu fliegen bietet dieses Buch alles was man braucht um seine Ernährung auf Stärke umzustellen. Eine umfangreiche Rezeptsammlung ist im letzten Kapitel enthalten. Diese kann für den deutschen Markt recht einfach übernommen werden, da viele der Zutaten oder Äquivalente leicht zu bekommen sind. Ich persönlich wandele solche Rezepte aber gerne mit dem ab was ich gerade daheim hab. Ansonsten erklärt er mit wissenschaftlich belegten Aussagen warum er bestimmte Nahrungsmittel ablehnt und andere wiederum empfiehlt. Er gibt einen persönlichen Einblick in seine eigene Geschichte und was ihn ursprünglich motiviert hat sich mit dem Thema zu beschäftigen. Darüber hinaus gibt es immer wieder Erfahrungsberichte von Personen die mit seinem Programm ihre Krankheiten und ihr Übergewicht in den Griff bekommen haben. Für Menschen die sich bereits vegan ernähren hat er ebenfalls ein Kapitel das anschaulich und am Beispiel erklärt warum auch Veganer von seinem Programm profitieren können. Alles in allem finde ich das Buch sehr gelungen und habe es auch sehr schnell durchgelesen. Ich kann nur 5 Sterne geben, weil es gut und motivierend geschrieben ist und mich davon überzeugt hat seine Ernährung für mich umzusetzen. Im übrigen hat sich auch mein Blutdruck innerhalb von einer Woche von 142/95 auf 111/85 verbessert. Meine Empfehlung: Kaufen durchlesen umsetzen.

Esta bien. Lo compre de 2nda mano estaba en buen estado.

Dr John McDougall's "The Starch Solution" puts together rock solid science and evidence for a natural, whole food, plant based starch, grain, vegetable and fruit diet for great health and well-being. The Solution advocates elimination of all animal based foods. All the information given in this book is summarized on Dr. McDougall's website and is available there for free. There are also a great many other free resources listed there that will help all those looking for healing solutions either as wellness seekers or healers wanting to help others. (Just Google McDougall Starch Solution to get links to go onto his site.) I am very impressed by the authenticity and practicality of the book and signed up for a special Starch Solution Certification Course. The course has helped me to understand this subject in much greater detail. It has enhanced my effectiveness as a health care professional in alternative healing therapies. I am now able to help my patients much more than I could earlier, through the mechanism of adding systematic dietary changes for my patients as laid out in the Starch Solution. * I may mention here that most of my practice deals with the health issues of those coming to me from the modern system of medicine and therapies, not having found any great disease-reversal or relief there. At best the modern medicine and healthcare system provides relief inasmuch it permits one to be somewhat more functional and permits one to "tolerate" the attrition to one's health. It also provides urgently needed and life-saving measures. However it does nothing to reverse the diseases listed, which are essentially and truly nutritional diseases and that issue is very inadequately addressed in the overall current healthcare and medical therapeutics and practices. * The good news is that all that detailed information from the Certification Course is in the book in a distilled, accurate and usable form. The certification course has over 8 hours of audio-video lectures, the key information of which is distilled down to this book, and the information in the book is further distilled down to the bare essentials and a practical plan to follow, available for free on Dr McD's website. Quite simply, the process works when followed with a reasonable, increasing degree of compliance over time-- if not following the process 'cold turkey' as it were. People who once get onto this process and experience the positive-to-remarkably-significant results in a few days tend to stay with the process. * The evidence presented in the "Starch Solution" looks at civilizations and cultures past and present over thousands of years, and details where such traditional dietary practices are still being followed today with great wellness. * Importantly---it documents that where these traditional diets change to a richer western diet, how the health begins to deteriorate within the same generation and dramatically so in the next. Hence diet and nutrition and not genes or other factors affect health and wellness primarily. *The book lays out a very compelling case that today's most deadly chronic diseases are in fact nutritional diseases that can be reversed primarily by nutritional measures. This is a bold and radical claim that should excite and encourage all those in and associated with health and wellness activities. Reading this book and other associated material makes it clear that misinformation, partial information and speculation have propelled the belief of the public that a meat, fish, dairy and fatty diet is essential to health. The evidence is to the contrary--those on a meat, dairy, fish and fatty diet are rapidly becoming sicker and sicker. Dr. McDougall points out that opposition to a natural whole foods plant based starch, grain, vegetable and fruit diet in the face of the overwhelming hard scientific evidence comes from beliefs generated by a great marketing job from those whose livelihoods are connected to and dependent upon maintaining an opposing view--within the meat and dairy industries as well as government. (In his video lectures, he paraphrases Upton Sinclair--"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.") Dr McD is at pains to dispel the notion that he is advocating some kind of conspiracy theory. He points out that the people who have their entrenched interests in the meat and dairy industries, equally have families and loved ones who are getting sick from the meat and dairy they eat. * So it is not a conspiracy, but rather an issue of protecting one's paycheck. While there is nothing wrong with that, the consequences and price to pay for doing this is this painful, costly list ---obesity, diabetes, heart and coronary artery disease (CAD), strokes, osteoporosis, liver, lung and kidney disease, cancer, depression... and the list goes on. * Dietary choices are shaped by many factors including social, cultural and financial ones, and more broadly by one's personal ideology about their life choices and beliefs. In order to look at something new in a fair way, one must set aside--temporarily at least, one's biases or beliefs in order to see things as they are. Then one may choose to live with one's established beliefs and biases--or form new beliefs based on truly understanding the evidence. * The problems experienced by people in following this whole foods plant based diet appear to be coming majorly from not understanding how this works and how to go about following it. In the name of 'vegan' there are many variations of what is 'vegan' and what works is mixed and diluted by what doesn't work for sustainable health. Hence all similar appearing diets get tarred with the same brush of unreliability, quackery etc. Therefore, to be clear, this diet is not a catchall 'Vegan' diet, but as Dr McD points out, it is a plant based starch, grains, fruits and vegetables diet. For simplicity he calls it the Starch diet as that is overall the single largest component of the diet. Dr McDougall says that Human beings are in effect "starchivores", who are naturally seeking complex sugars (starch) and simple sugars (fruits and some vegetables) through their taste buds as well as according to the way their metabolism is designed. Having starchy food and sugars satiates and fills one more than fats can ever do and with far less calories. The book also debunks the widespread misinformation that starch and sugars make one fat--documented research shows that under most conditions sugar does not turn into fat in the body, it is burnt off as fuel, while the fat one eats goes straight in to the body's stores. As Dr. McDougall says very graphically--"The fat you eat is the fat you wear!" * The practical demonstration of this is, that, where people change their dietary patterns to follow a whole foods plant based, starch, grain, vegetable and fruit diet systematically as explained in the book, they quickly experience a radical change in their wellness status for the better. Any slight additions of animal based foods to the diet, especially animal proteins, is seen to dilute and degrade the health benefits of following this altered hybrid system--which is then no longer a true 'Vegan', whole foods natural plant based diet. If we are really our own well-wishers we owe it to ourselves to first properly and really understand what this diet is all about, and then follow it systematically for a few days to experience the results of it.

This book contains the final answer as to who we are and what we should eat. It is cleverly crafted to explain the causes of diseases and the different pitfalls of other diets (fruit only, Atkins, keto, weight watchers...) The book gives plenty of explanations about why animal products and other fats cause disease. The emphasis on what to eat is very clear and the food tastes great! It is easy to stick on the diet and on the long run you begin to appreciate foods that are simple and easy to prepare. You will save thousands by avoiding the foods that make us and the planet sick while improving your health. It is incredible. As a fit young 25 year old I did not expect to get rid of my acnea, constipation, hémorroïdes, energy levels and so on. I thought I was healthy, this way of eating proved me wrong.