The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life: How to Reduce Fat in Your Diet and Eliminate Virtually All Risk of Heart Disease

by Raymond Kurzweil

Reducing the level of fat in your diet to 10% can save your life, and this book gives you all the tools you need to do just that. Everything you need to know about is in this recipes, conversion charts, pantry staples, dining-out tips, progress tables, an exercise program, and detailed appendixes.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

386 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

An all-purpose genius and inventor, Kurzweil researched nutrition with the best health prospects, and wisely chose my own--all plants and no more than 10% of calories from fat.

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 1 out of 5]

always a strange guy

I think I want to eat Brie and Butter Sandwiches with a slice of greasy bacon for lunch listening to Kurzweil telling me about his brain on a semiconductor chop on an ion-rocket to build the first toilet on Alpha Centauri one day

He needs to take his vitamins

and would have been a great weirdo on In Search Of

He now eats 25% fat a day, by the way

and as a typical crank and fanatic
said carbs are great, and later says no no no, I was wrong they should be super low now
sugar so what? and now fuck you Big Sugar

Caffeine is enemy number one on Monday
and by Thursday Kurzweil guzzles 8 cups of green tea, saying
"forget what I said Monday Pal"

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And in my latest dream, Ray Kurzweil has a secret lab inside the planet Pluto
where he's got 40,000 teenage hookers he's put on rocket ships, and he's harvesting their youthful blood for his IV Drip, in Episode II of Planet of the Vampires.

"Oooooh, your BLOOD is so..... young!"

and it plays much like the 1960s movie QUEEN OF BLOOD

but at least the guy isn't WEIRD

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"If you read Ray Kurzweil’s books....what I find is that it’s a very bizarre mixture of ideas that are solid and good with ideas that are crazy. It’s as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can’t possibly figure out what’s good or bad."

Doug Hofstadter, author of Godel, Escher, Bach

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the Wild Amazone

Unoriginal!
2/10

Normally I like Ray Kurzweil's books, but this one is not among those. There is nothing original in this book! Don't waste your money! It's better to read Dr. Joel Fuhrman MD (Eat to Live), and Dr. Dean Ornish MD (Hart Disease Reversal Prog.). These two are actually practicing physicians and can offer insights into the experience gained through work with many patients. Anyone could have written a 10% solution by reading these two sources alone. Ray Kurzweil can do better than this, for example his "Fantastic Voyage" is quite good.

Amy Dyer

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Good book but sadly out of date!
6/10

I own and have read this book as well as the newer follow up (published in 2004).

This book is now nearing 15 years old. I read it very recently and began to employ the methods taught in the book.

It was not until reading Kurzweil's newest book that I saw he has changed many of his ideas since the writing of this book in 1992-93.

For example; in 10%, you should not eat more than 10% of your calories from fat. Carbohydrates are encouraged, sugar is not *that* big of a deal, and caffeine is the enemy.

In the new book, fat can be 25% of your calories each day, carbohydrates must now stay very low, sugar is to be avoided at all costs, but caffeine is ok!

In fact, the author now drinks 8 cups of green tea per day.
Green tea is lower than coffee in caffeine, but 8 cups a day is still a lot of it.

I enjoyed reading this book, but I wish I had realized that the information contained within was out of date and no longer to be followed. It would have saved me $20.

Chris M. Mcmahon

[Graeme Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book could literally save your life.

I've been on medication for hypertension for the last 30 years. My doctor would occasionally tell me I needed to drop a few kilos (5-10), but has never to my recollection ever mentioned the need to reduce sodium in my diet. I take my blood pressure regularly on a machine at home and even on medication it has always hovered around 150/100 or thereabouts for the last few years. On Sunday it was 139/89.

I started reducing sodium in my diet on Monday to under 2000mg a day and now on Friday my blood pressure is 126/77 the best it's been since my mid twenties.

I've also dropped 3 kilos in 5 days simply by adopting a 10% fat approach to my diet. I have only another 5 kgs to go to reach my ideal weight.

I feel fitter more alert, I no longer feel sluggish and tired continually. I wish I'd found this book earlier, but better later than too late.

[Matina Oscar · Rating 3 out of 5]

I began the Heart Disease Herbal Treatment from NaturePath Herbal Clinic, and the results have been nothing short of incredible for my condition. After using the treatment for nearly four months, I experienced a significant improvement in my heart health.
Symptoms such as chest discomfort, shortness of breath, and fatigue gradually diminished. I now feel more energetic, and my overall well-being has greatly improved.
I highly recommend reaching out to NaturePath Herbal Clinic through their website: www.naturepathherbalclinic.com. Their natural approach truly made a difference for me.

[Paul Mamani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Atherosclerosis is a disease which is characterized by a progressive buildup of rigid material inside artery walls and channels. Eventually, they become so clogged that blood flow is stopped and the victim suffers a heart attack. This disease is caused by excess cholesterol in the bloodstream and afflicts approximately ninety percent of Americans, though it is a gradual process and may not even be detectable until later life.

Kurzweil cites various studies showing that increased levels of atherosclerosis in the U.S. and other western countries are linked to high levels of caloric fat intake. In much of Asia, fat intake is around ten percent of total food energy consumed, and heart disease there is almost nonexistent. Kurzweil goes on to show that in America, closer to forty percent of caloric intake is from fat.

[Mike Majchrzak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good