DEAR DR. GOTT:
My husband was diagnosed with a rapidly growing, malignant brain cancer in 2004. He was 57 years old.

After reading “Acid and Alkaline” by Herman Aihara and “Death by Diet” by Robert Barefoot, I immediately put him on a no bread, no flour diet (similar to your no flour, no sugar diet). My husband also started taking vitamins, minerals and some alternative herbs. He ate lots of raw or lightly steamed vegetables, fruits, teas, deep well water and no sugar drinks. He lost only 12 pounds during the eleven months of his illness. During that time he had two head surgeries, meningitis (contracted in hospital) and chemotherapy. The attending nurses said he was the most physically fit cancer patient they had ever seen. Although the cancer won, I feel his good health up to the last two weeks of his life was primarily due to his diet.

I now tell my friends, who want to lose weight, about this way of eating and your diet (since they don’t need to be as restrictive as my husband was). Most of them, however, don’t seem to know how to follow through and when hunger hits them, they grab junk food instead of something healthful.

I believe having a well-thought out plan including recipes will help most people who are really serious. I believe that if your no flour, no sugar diet had a recipe book, more people would be able to stick to the diet and can start enjoying the benefits of good health.

Please finish your book because I would love to order several copies when they are available.

DEAR READER:
Your suggestions for a well-thought out plan makes perfect sense to me; in fact, that is the thrust of my first diet book (Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet). Many of my readers have asked about issues having to do with finding recipes to vary the foods they eat. To help them, I have my newest book (Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Cook Book). It contains over 200 recipes. Both books are available at most bookstores or online at www.Amazon.com.