has anyone heard of and read this book as i've been looking for books on amazon and came across it. Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat? by Samford Siegal, D.O, M.D.
I was wondering if it is worth while buying and reading. if anyone has read any other books about thyroid issues what would you recommend i read.
It has been mentioned before:
thyroiduk.healthunlocked.co...
(I typed "siegal" into the search box at top right. Your question and this link were the only hits. But it might be elsewhere - mis-typed!)
Rod
I have looked at this book but I didn't find it very helpful to be honest. I think Dr Peatfield's book is much better and he talks about eating a low carb diet for 5 days then eating normally for two days. There are some of us out there with hypothyroidism who are finding grains are a big culprit for us in gaining weight around our middles (myself included) -providing of course you are being optimally treated for hypothroidism. I cut my grains down very low -porridge for breakfast and no other grains and low and behold have lost 9" of my waist -coupled with daily exercise. Am trying to remember the author of the The Wheat Belly Book....its' upsatirs somewhere but it is worth a read. Will have a nosey for it for you... xx
William Davis MD, not the only book about 'new' wheat either, Atkins and many others talk about the benefits of cutting out processed carbs J 
I would be interested in that as well waveylines! All of the weight I have gained has been around my stomach - all one and half stone of it... *sigh*
These links are regarding weight and taking 'replacement medication' (that is keeping your TSH within the range.
web.archive.org/web/2010032...
web.archive.org/web/2010122...
(first question)
Thanks for those links as well.... One of the worrying things for me, particularly, is that my waist to hip ratio (which the WHO reports is one of the better indicators - better than just BMI - for risk of heart disease) went from 0.78 to 0.85 (within a matter of 6-8 weeks) - with 0.85 being on the borderline of abdominal obesity! And that from someone who had a BMI of 19.8!
I am learning so much from the references posted on this site!
yes that was my problem -my waist/ hip ratio was very small difference. Since cutting my grains right down (apart from a measured portion at Breakfast) i ahve now lost nearly 10" of my waist -just keeps dropping off! I wouldnot do the Atkins diet -he has very minimal carbs and includes fruit and vegs in this. I do not limit my verg but restrict fruit to 2-3 pieces per day. My natural shape orignally before my thyroid days was a tom boy -that is am not a pear -the apple shape crept in when my thyroid problems started.
Now wouldn't it be interresting to start a poll on body shapes before and now? I wonder how many of us end up with apple shapes once developing hypothyrodism....just a thought.
This book was the first one I read when I started doing my own research into my hypothyroid problem. It is not very good. Dr Peatfield's book is much better.
Has anyone had success with Paul Robinson's Recovering with T3?
has anyone heard of this?
Ever heard of Bioiberica NDT? Thyroid API.
