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December 31, 2005
The popular CSIRO's Total Wellbeing Diet was written by Manny Noakes and Peter Clifton, from CSIRO's Human Nutrition.
 Despite being funded by the meat and livestock industry, it is certainly been very successful. It has already made the organization more than A$1.5 million (US$1.1 million) in royalties.
The book has sparked arguments between dietitians over its promotion of a high-protein diet at the expense of carbohydrates, the authors' recommendation that a higher protein diet is effective and safe, and the research that supports those recommendations.
Noakes and Clifton advise eating around twice the daily amount of protein in a typical Western diet. The diet recommends around 30 to 35% of a person's daily energy intake should come from protein, compared to 15% in the typical Western diet.
I've switched to it----the receipes are great--- and moved away from the rcommendations that starchy carbohydrates, such as bread cereals, pasta and potatoes, should provide the bulk of each meal, as they help to provide a sense of fullness and at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.That sense of fullness for me is an uncomfortable bloated sensation. So I no longer eat bread or pasta. I no longer desire that sense of fullness.
I don't see the switch as a quick fix approach to losing as some are arguing. It is more a major shift in my eating habits. The weight comes off with exercise.
update Jan.8th
The battle over the diets continues. Rosemary Stanton and medico John Tickell say that the CSIRO diet, which recommends high amounts of red meat.contravenes the government's own dietary advice.The government's Australian Guide to Health Eating recommends consumption of 65 to 100 grams of lean red meat three to four times per week, but the new book advocates up to 300 grams of meat daily.
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Gary,
Very interesting post about your diet choices.
I see you're following a "modified" CSIRO diet where you've decided to cut out bread & pasta.
I follow the Blood Type Diet as developed by Peter D'Adamo ( http://www.dadamo.com/ ) which bases food choices on your blood type.
I am type O (along with 80% of the population) and wheat & dairy are the big avoids. Ever since cutting them out, I too have gotten rid of that post-eating bloated feeling (along with the flatulence) and other health problems.
I originally was skeptical of this diet but after reading "Eat Right For Your Type", I noticed that I had already stopped eating a lot of the things he recommends to not eat, just from personal experience. So I thought why not give it a go and the changes to my health were noticeable and positive.
The hardest part at first was to increase the amount of red meat I ate but once I got used to it and noticed the change to my health, I thoroughly enjoy it.
Funnily enough, my blood cholesterol levels were higher when I was a vegetarian than now and I eat meat for lunch & dinner everyday.
You might find that the Blood Type diet is very close to your modified CSIRO diet.
Cheers,
Michael