Cereal Killer

This book talks not only about cereal, but about grains, sugars, proteins and fats. The book is quite condensed in information (get more details from other books and cross reference) and is easy to read. I have quit eating cereal and cut my grains way back, while increasing my protein, vegetable, and fruit intake. I have started using coconut oil, olive oil, and butter instead of margarine or canola oil. I'm experimenting with using partial coconut flour in place of flour in some recipes. In several weeks, I have lost 6 lbs. to reach my healthy weight, my face has cleared up, I need less sleep, and I feel MUCH better! The heart flutters I had while on a "low fat" eating plan have gone away. My sugar cravings are gone, although I still treat myself to a small piece of dark chocolate occasionally. My husband no longer has heartburn in the evening and has lost some weight around his mid-section. I would encourage anyone to try this for at least 30 days...cut out the processed and high sugar foods, breads, rice, crackers, pasta, etc. and eat natural foods, including plenty of good fats...I would bet a lot of "medical" problems could be alleviated while eating like this. Natural fat doesn't make us fat and sick, sugars make us fat and sick.

This book should be read by anyone contemplating having a family. Our government and the mega food companies have sold America a bill of goods. This book is an excellent read and expose on the mass marketing of bad health to parents and their children. While extoling the vitamins and minerals in their breakfast cereals, the life threatening dangers of high sugar content are glossed over. Another very educational and eye opening book to go with this, The Devil in Milk, and Wheat Belly, is Fat Land. These four books should be in every home that cares about their family's health and well being.

Here's a book that I read in a weekend (between ball games, etc.) that has quite frankly, helped change my life. I'd been fighting the slow, relentless "battle of the bulge" for more years than I care to count. After our summer vacation at the coast, my wife talked me into joining her in a fad diet (South Beach) that worked but ran counter to my instincts as a long term solution. Then I found Cereal Killer and thank goodness, was motivated to read it. Wow! That was last July (2010). Since then, I can again wear all the suits that I'd stopped even trying to wear (and couldn't bring myself to give away, thank goodness). The "fat" clothes that I'd been forced to buy in recent years have mostly all been "taken in" by Mike, my happy tailor. This past weekend, the chalk marks on the waist band of one such pair of trousers was over two inches apart even after making it through the holidays (wow again!). I can't thank the author Al Watson enough for compiling this collection of "who'd-a-thunk-it?" fascinating nutrition facts. I've since pursued other books, including one in Watson's bibliography titled "Life without Bread", which gets into the scientific nuts and bolts of what Cereal Killer explains in more of what I'd call "layman's" terms. I'm so confident that Watson and his colleagues are on the right track with their nutrition advice that I've recently purchased a brand new Zegna (Italian) suit from Neiman Marcus, being very sure I'll stay with the healthy fat / low carb diet for the rest of my life thanks to the wisdom contained in the pages of these fine books, including Cereal Killer. I cannot recommend Cereal Killer highly enough.

I love the information about lard. All my adult life I have been afraid of lard and bacon grease---my mother used it when we were young, anyway I am going back to those old ways of thinking. I already bought a grease keeper--and I NEVER thought I would have one in my kitchen !!!!! I have been using organic coconut oil and olive oil..but absolutely no processed oils. I love the way that this book is written. Very easy to understand--and it is not a hard,long read. I recommend it to anyone who wants to feel better !!!!

This book is a great compilation of studies and information. My German naturopathic doctor recommended I read it and I'm so glad I did. It really helped me understand a lot of things about the American diet and why we are suffering from so many health ailments...and what I can do to change my eating lifestyle.

I am actually still reading this book. It advises one to avoid sugar, which is found in most cereals. So we think we are eating a healthy food, when really it is so processed and high in sugar it is far from healthy. The other main idea is that low fat is a bad idea, and higher fat diets are healthier. Everything from butter and red meat to lard! There are days when I want to embrace this idea, but other days when everything I have held to be true so far advises me not to. I suspect the answer may be somewhere in the middle. Atkins, for instance, is a diet I have never been able to get on board with despite the weight loss and lowered cholesterol that goes with it. I always wonder about the risk of colon and other cancers from a diet like this. Also, it warns you against too many fruits and vegetables, which just sounds wrong to me! But if you look at it, America has been touting low fat as the way to go and we are fatter than ever. So I feel, bottom line, that there are some truths in this book, however, it will not become my nutrition bible. Lowering sugar intake is something I am on board with. And I have switched back to butter over what we always call "fake butter." I am still reading from this book and others. Always keeping my ears and mind open to nutrition theories, but it can be hard to discern the truth, cause really, I don't think anyone has all the pieces to the puzzle of the optimum diet. Keep on reading!

Anyone who is serious about their health and the health of their family should read this book. It is easy to read, understandable and has outstanding resources sited throughout its pages. The misinformation highway and profit driven nutrition recommendations that are increasing the obese generation we live are clearly addressed and well support. excellent read

Very interesting and controversial book that challenges everything you've ever been told about healthy eating.I have had a keen interest in nutrition for years and had always believed that a low fat diet was essential for good health and weight loss. This book dispels the myth that eating fat makes you fat and shows that we should all be eating quality fats every day for optimum health. Processed carbs are the real culprits and should be either totally removed or strictly limited from diets.I would recommend this book to anyone who has battled with weight loss and failed diets and anyone with an interest in real nutrition. We have been brainwashed with decades of misinformation about what is good and bad for us but hopefully this book will help to set the record straight.The trouble is that the information in this book is so controversial that most people will simply refuse to believe the truth. It's like trying to tell a religious person there is no God - they simply will not entertain the idea as it is ingrained into their personality!

Very well written with great explanations of how sat fat is good for us and avoid sugar and derivatives. Get it.