Dr Gott's No Flour, No Sugar Diet: The Simplest Way to Lose Weight

Currently sitting on the best seller list, Dr. Peter Gott's No Flour, No Sugar Diet: The Simplest Way to Lose Weight is flying off the selves. Perhaps it is due to our desire to find a simple solution to weight lose that the book has sold over 100,000 copies. But the truth is, simple doesn't fill up 208 pages...

Who is Dr Peter Gott

Peter H. Gott, M. D. is one of America's most popular medical columnist. His newspaper column , Ask Dr. Gott, appears in more than 350 newspapers worldwide, including USA Today and the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Gott has had a solo family/general practice in rural Connecticut since 1966 and is the medical director of the Hotchkiss School, a coed preparatory boarding school in his community. He is also author of No House Calls: Irreverent Notes on the Practice of Medicine, Summer Windows of Sconset, and Live Longer, Live Better: Taking Care of Your Health after 50. His latest book, No Flour, No Sugar Diet: The Simplest Way to Lose Weight, published in June of 2006 has become an instant success.

What is the No Flour, No Sugar Diet

In its simplest term it is exactly what the title says- NO flour and NO sugar. The idea is that by eliminating flour and sugar from your diet you will avoid junk food. But it is not as simple as looking at the ingredients to see if there is sugar and flour. Sugar comes in many different forms, Dr. Gott proposes that highly proposes sugar is avoided- maltodextrin, fructose, corn syrup solids, high fructose corn syrup, and so on. Usually when you see flour on a label, that flour has been so highly processed it has the same effect on you that table sugar does. Thus, by avoiding high processed flour as well as highly processed sugar you minimize empty calories.