Background:  Dr. Michael and Mary Eades

During the course of their careers, which has spanned over 15+ years, the Eades have personally treated thousands of overweight patients who had literally given up all hope of losing weight. The doctors' success in their private practice led to their coauthoring the bestseller, Protein Power. The book, first published in 1996, remained on The New York Times bestseller list for over a year, and has sold more than 3 million copies to date.

According to this diet book, you need to control the insulin response within your body to achieve health and normal weight. Depending on your activity level, they allocate amounts of protein required at each meal. You're allowed a small amount of carbs (30-50g a day) but you must carefully monitor this. Persons on this diet plan need to count everything and eat specific amounts and at certain times. Protein Power also recommends diet supplements.

The Plan

Basically, Protein Power  is a high protein low-carb diet plan similar to the Dr. Atkins Diet but with more scientific data and better researched. The Protein Power Diet comes with literature that includes calculations for discovering your ideal diet plan and how many carbohydrates and proteins you may consume based upon your height, weight, activity level and body fat percentage.

High protein foods such as meats, poultry and fish are encouraged as is milk, cream and cheese. While following the Protein Power low carb diet you should stay away from high carbohydrate foods such as pasta and bread--similar to the Atkins diet or South Beach diet.