Comments on: Rosedale Diet

By: ted

ted — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:36:43 +0000

How do you do any diet as a vegetarian? Well you substitute meat proteins with plant proteins…beans, lentils, soy, etc. it may take a little creativity but it can be done.

By: CA

CA — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:44:30 +0000

How do you do this diet, if you are a vegetarian? I need an answer quick, as my doctor recommended this way of eating. This seems too radical to me, and just a copy of theAtkins way of eating. Please straighten me out on this.

By: Jim Laing

Jim Laing — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:36:09 +0000

I’ve been on Rosedale diet for about 3 years. I have at least 5 close friends on the diet (males ages 40-70). All of us use it to control cholesterol. All of us were taking satins. Currently none of us use satins and all of us have cholesterol under 150. In addition other markers have improved as well, as dramatically. Some exercise and some do not. Further more 2 of the 5 of have had before and after stress tests and in one case blockage went from 98% to completely clear in less than 90 days. Most of us had significant weight loss in the first few months 30-60lbs.

Wish we could thank Dr. Rosedale personally. We’re in for life.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:43:53 +0000

I heard of the Rosedale diet from Dr. Mercola’s newsletters. It terrified me because of the amount of fat. I have been on it only three days and have lost two lbs. Lbs that I was having trouble losing. But the main thing I noticed is that my endless fatigue disappeared. I had the feeling that I have not eaten enough good fats in years and years. I almost felt the fat melting off my body. I also didn’t realize how much protein I was actually eating. And if Rosedale is right and that excess turns to saturated fat, it could account for the high cholesterol I have (all my other heart markers are fine). I did the south beach diet many years ago and it worked well for weight loss but it did not give me this feeling of energy and healing. I had a non starchy vegetarian diet this evening and I’m so full that usually I would equate it with gaining weight..so it will be interesting int he morning to see if I am still losing. I also stopped eating after 8. Which I have NEVER been able to do in my life. I am still drinking tea with Agave necter which is one of those fructose things he warns against. But I’m not ready to give up me tea (yes I said it that way on purpose.) I agree with the person who said that each of us has to find our way of eating and the foods that heal our particular bodies,

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:13:01 +0000

I have been on this diet for 5 years. I lost 40 pounds the first year and my weight is stable. I stay on the diet for health reasons. I was found to be pre-diabetic and this condition reversed with this diet. It also lowered my blood pressure and it has been good for many other minor conditions. I plan to stick with it.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:13:29 +0000

Oh, Rosedale also discusses eating fish, which I love and would eat a ton of were it not for mercury contamination. He also presents canola oil as a healthy food and more and more info is coming out on why it isn’t.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:58:22 +0000

My family has been on a health quest for a while that started when we found several of us are gluten sensitive. (We also have allergies to certain nuts, and dairy doesn’t agree with us either!) Given that we’ve already made the jump away from wheat, oats, rye, barley and the mainstream grains, and dairy too, we are already so far from the American diet that giving up grains isn’t as hard for us as it might be for some. None of this is “a diet” per se, just refinements on how to eat correctly. We also wonder how much Rosedale is targeting people with diabetes and other disorders or who are eating unhealthily (e.g., white flours). How would his book differ if it spoke to people who already eat very healthily?

I’m now 48 (male) and had already begun to figure out that grains make me fat, so does alcohol and especially beer (so sad). Grains are a relatively recent addition to the human diet and there’s a good argument that they are not a good one. Aren’t they a grass, after all? And unlike a cow which has 3 stomachs to digest grasses, don’t we have only one which might be a clue that we shouldn’t eat grasses or else they’ll mess with our blood chemistry? So when we read Rosedale Diet we knew we were on to something by becoming aware of the importance of leptin.

The book is very useful in that regard. The book doesn’t have enough to say about what foods can be eaten, when, and how they should be prepared, in our opinion. We also think that while the good doctor knows a lot about blood chemistry, he doesn’t know enough about eating healthy. For instance, he presents soy as a healthy food, which it is not. (Soy contains hard to digest phytates, way way too much estrogen compounds, and is almost always GMO, and it’s even harder for the GI tract to break down than grasses).

I was already a flat-belly, but since giving up grains I’ve gotten down to a natural weight for me. (6ft, 170lb) I have no “handles” and I can see a vein on my bicep most all the time.

We are having trouble with how much grains to feed our children though. The book DOES say that children are able to switch from energy sources better than adults, but we’ll continue to research this. Also, we’ll read everything we can find on no-grain diets and hopefully we’ll get a more rounded knowledge on this topic.

The book may have its flaws, but its description of the importance of leptin make it a must-read for anyone on a health quest.

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:29:24 +0000

I’ve been using the Rosedale diet for 3 months. I’m at 212# and only 5′3″ and have arthritis so I’m pretty sedentary. I have hypoglycemia, so i have problems staying alert all day. I initially lost 7# on this diet, then nothing more. My health is much much better however, and going off of it just brings symptoms back, so am adopting this as just a good way to eat.