"Tomasz Trojanowski" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Do you know what's with Herman Taller, M.D., who has written "Calories
Don't
Quoted message said:Count"? I
can't find any information about him, after 1967 and his law problems.
What's with him? Is
he still alive? If not - how and when he died?
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Tomasz [Tom] Trojanowski
It is an interesting question. As I recall from websurfing about a year
ago, he was convicted of something like mail fraud based on the page in his
diet book that recommended the safflower oil pills. He had some kind of
investment in the supplement seller. The prosecutor claimed that his diet
book was a complete fiction made for the purpose of selling a bogus diet
supplement.
I found his diet book quite inspiring. There are others these days who
claim omega 6 has a role in weightloss. When I read the book, the one page
that touted the saflower oil pills sounded different in cadence, as if it
was either written by someone else, or written at a different time than the
rest of the book, and then inserted. I think there is no question that he
sincerely believed in a low carb high fat diet, as do I. In his own
profound weightloss he had used safflower oil as his fat source, himself.
I don't know how or when he died. I'm sure he would have appreciated last
year's low carb surge.
I believe Dr. Taller's work was part of the research done by Atkins.
Dr. Taller claimed that *all* of his patients on the diet lost weight.
However, he monitored the patients with blood tests by which he determined
who was cheating on the diet, and thus cheaters were not included in the
100% success figure.
My personal theory is that any form of fat will work to produce weightloss.
I have lost 166 pounds, and now have a BMI of about 24. Dr. Taller claimed
that weightloss using his approach stops working at 11% body fat. In the
1960's counting calories was difficult. Today, with software like Fitday,
it is easy. I have been calorie counting at the same time as eating a 60%
to 65% fat diet. So, I guess I disagree with the title of his book. It is
entirely possible that I would have had the same results, except somewhat
slower, if I had followed his ad-lib eating approach.
Dr. Taller's book inspired me to my success. I belived his 100% success
claim, for those Who Do Not Cheat. That belief kept me from cheating.
Dave
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LowCarbHighFat/