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Summary: It's the healthiest eating plan around
Review: When I was diagnosed with diabetes 8 years ago, my Dr. put me on a low-calorie diet. It didn't work because I was always hungry. I changed doctors. My new doctor recommended the Atkins book. So I read the book, started the diet, and when I had my next appointment with the doctor a couple of months later my weight was down substantially, my cholesterol had dropped, my blood pressure was normal, and my blood glucose was normal for the first time in years! It's a miracle diet, especially for diabetics, but also for anyone who needs to lose weight and eat healthy.Don't be taken in by those who lambast the diet as unhealthy. Most of them haven't even read this book. Thankfully, though, new research is proving Dr. Atkins was right all along. Not only is this diet easier to follow than the low-fat diet, it really is the more natural way for humans to eat, considering the lifestyle of our cave-man ancestors.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I have lost 70 pounds, 10 inches on my waist and feel great. I have done this over a year. I'm not going back to the way I used to eat. I am never hungry and my cholesterol has dropped 30 points to 167. My blood pressure is down to 110/70 - not bad for a 5'10" 42 year old who until about a year ago weighed in at 265. My doctor doesn't like the diet either but can not argue the blood test results. I feel great.
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Summary: healthpays.freelife.com
Review: This is a good deal on three great works by Dr. Atkins. Helps you lose the fat and chase the carbs away!
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Summary: Say what you will
Review: I completely understand the skeptics, but I have lost 25 lbs., built muscle tone and have better mental acuity than I have had in years. Prior to trying Dr. Atkins low-carb diet, I was on the SlimFast plan. I was tired constantly, felt dietarily deprived and lost a lot of the muscle tone I had worked hard at the gym to put on. What drives me crazy with a lot of the reviews of Dr. Atkins plan are the people who do not realize that it is NOT a "High Fat, Low Carb diet." He doesn't recommend INCREASING your fat intake, only decreasing the carbs, which turns to sugar in your bloodstream. Both my brother and sister are diabetics and have been on a modified Atkins diet since his first book came out in the '70's. Now I understand why. So, say what you will, but actually try it and see how you feel.
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Summary: People need to wake up
Review: First off I AM A NUTRITIONIST! Dr. ADkins is a cardiologist not a nutritionist. Would you have a plumber do your electrical work? FACT: The body does not burn fat without carbohydrate. FACT: High amounts of protein causes the body to catobolize muscle tissue which causes you to lose weight but slows your metabolism so a rebound is inevitable. Adkins claims that since carbs cause the release of insulin eliminate carbs and you will not store fat. True but protein still releases insulin. The ONLY way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume. FACT: CARBS= 4 cals per gram, PROTEIN 4 cals per gram, Alcohol 7 cals per gram, and FAT 9 cals per gram. SO carbs has the same caloric makeup as protein. Come on people think over the facts yourselves and don't fatten the pockets of this man who doesn't know what he is talking about.
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Summary: I was wrong about this diet!
Review: I criticized the whole low-carb, high-protein diet program until I actually TRIED it. Since I've been off of carbs (for the most part) I've felt better and I've lost 26 pounds! Not every diet works for everyone, but please give the Atkins program a try!
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Summary: It helped me feel good...
Review: I am only 17 years old,when I was only the age of 16 i weighed 189 pounds. At that point I decided in my life that I needed to do something about my weight. I did so many different diets and was almost about to give up when my dad came home from work one day and told me about this diet that a friend of his had started, and was actually seeing results, I thought what do I have to lose? So I started the diet, and boom by 4 months later I was down to 150 pounds. I felt so muh better about myself,so much more confident to walk into a room. I am just so glad I actually went through and did something on my own.I still to this day am currently doing the Adkins diet and still love it for the mere fact that if I was able to do it I think that anyone can. Life is great now as I am continueing to lose weight I get more and more excited each day. So I wish the best of lck to anyone out there who is looking for a diet that does work and believe me it does,it is just up to you to make that decision.
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Summary: Dr. Atkins deserves a Nobel Prize!
Review: This book is the Magnum Opus of nutritional science. This diet is also a genuine lifesaver. After losing over 120 pounds on it, and seeing incredible improvements of my total cholesterol count, blood pressure, and triglycerides, I can safely state that this diet saved my life. I will be on it for life. I have seen very similar results in other people as well. A collegue of mine lost a staggering 147 pounds on this diet, with ease! Others could permanently wave off blood pressure and cholesterol medication. Anybody who tells you this is not healthy, all waterweight, or that ketosis is not a healthty metabolical state, or perhaps one of the hundreds of other BS-objections one hears about this diet, is a certified lunatic or just a ill-informed negativist. The hard, factual nutritional science behind the Atkins program is rocksolid, and has been proven over and over in the peer-reviewed, medical literature and in clinical tests. Even those bastions of ultra-conservatism, mainstream science, are now forced -albeit kicking and screaming- that Atkins has been completely right for over three decades. This diet is VERY healthy. Period. It will dramatically improve your overall health, especially for the obese and/or diabetics. It is NOT all meat, or all eggs, that is simply a lie. Just read the book - it is very clear. You can have healhty green, non-starchy veggies, some fruits even, meats, fish, dairy. Just don't gorge. Do yourself a favor and buy this book TODAY. It is excellent, clear, fun to read and packed with very good advise and... THE TRUTH. The real truth, uncensored, unaltered and backed by hard scientific facts. Really read it very carefully. Follow his advice and guidelines to the letter. Then, if you have a curious mind, read the amazing, landmark NY times article that was recently published by a famous science writer. And see how decades of real, hard and factual nutritional science is totally backing this diet... you will most likely, like me, have serious difficulty not getting extremely angry with your Government and the food industry. In my opinion dr. Atkins absolutely deserves a Nobel Prize for his work and for the incredible fight he had to put up with in order to expose the REAL factual truth as outlined in this amazing book from a brilliant, extremely courageous doctor. Truly the magnum opus of nutritional science. Good health to you all!
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Summary: Lab Tests are In
Review: I waited to comment on Atkins until after I had been on at for at least 6 months and had follow up blood work. Sure I could see the fat burning off of me and the scale was becoming my friend, but is this healthy? Myself and 4 friends have been on this for 6 to 8 months. We had seen the results in others and one by one started it on our own. All of us lost significant weight in fat without a mass struggle. When I saw the measurements in my upper arms, thighs and stomach going down faster than the scale, I knew I was burning fat. There were some definite adjustments, but once those were understood each of us found it easy to stay on. Finding and exchanging new recipes even made it more interesting. Each one of our blood profiles has definite improvements with some being quite significant. One friend lost 90 points in her cholesterol and her tryglcerides once well out of range are now
down to 94. One friend bordered on high cholesterol and now is seeing historically low figures. Other functions such as kidney and liver were also well within range.
Atkins explains that your body always burns carbohydrates before fat and when you get those carbohydrates out of the way, you become a fat burning machine.
The frustration with Atkins is that so many people, including some who claim to be on it, have not read his book and pass judgement without fully understanding it. This includes some physicians and ill-advised nutritionists. Atkins is the first to inform you that you CANNOT gorge on fat like so many people claim. In fact, there are certain fats that you cannot have at all. Thankfully, the desire to gorge is extinguished as you quickly find that eating protien throughout the day keeps your blood sugar stable. Now when I get hungry I do so very slowly. At first, it is not obvious how to count carbohydrates in fruits and vegetables. Once I understood that I could subtract the amount of fiber from the total carbohydrate number, I realized I could have more of those things than it first appeared. I stay away from the real high sugared fruits and starchy vegetables, but I don't even count the carbs in greens now, I just eat what I want and it works for me. I even have a glass of dry white wine with dinner occasionally. Many people confuse the Atkins induction period as being the entire diet. In fact, you may slowly bring back certain carbs and see what you are and are not resistant to. I have a little rice or even pasta at times, but I keep those things way on the back burner now. Orowheat has some low carb breads that contain no sugar and I have a piece of toast with breakfast everyday. You don't have to buy any Atkins products to follow this diet, but his Endulge bars are so good it is doubtful you will want to pass them up. I never cared much for the Advantage bars, but you could mistake Endulge for some of the well known candy bars.
When people tell me Atkins is a dangerous diet, I ask them if I should reinstate the sugar or the saturated fats back into my diet first? I've cleared my pantry of all the processed high carb foods and haven't looked back. I no longer feel like i'm on a diet; this is a permanent change. Understandly, the Atkins' Revolution is counter-intuitive and runs against the logic of the traditional food pyramid, but it works and is healthy!
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Summary: The diet is simple but ...
Review: The diet is simple but reading the book was frustrating. My sense was that it could have had a better lay out and been much more reader friendly.
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