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.