Collins Carb Counter

The key to following a high-protein diet is to control your carbohydrate intake. Collins Gem Carb Counter is a guide to the net carb contents of everyday foods. It also gives calories, protein and fat. Information is given per portion to make it easy to use. High protein, carb-counting diets are often referred to as a man’s diet and this emphasis on portions rather than 100 g means that there is less working out involved. Boredom is often the downfall of the carb counter, so a section is included which gives suggestions for different meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.

Insulin – A Voice For Choice, by Arthur Teuscher

A thorough discussion of the controversy surrounding animal and “human” insulin. In the early 1980’ synthetic “human” insulin produced by recombinant DNA technology came onto the market. Despite an acknowledgment by the manufacturers regarding the potential dangers of “human” insulin they soon began to withdraw bovine and porcine insulin from markets all over the world, and promoted more expensive “human” insulins as a superior replacement. Read more of IDDT’s review of this book here…