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Summary: Amazing Book
Review: This book has really opened my eyes about eating well. We've all heard about the harmful effects of free radicals and the need for anti-oxidants, but many of us don't know exactly why. Atkins explains the science in clear terms. Understanding how and why free radicals damage us and anti-oxidants protect us really motivates people to eat well (at least it does for me). Of course, no Atkins book would be complete if it didn't advocate a strict reduction of processed carbs. This book is no different in that respect. What is different, however, is that in this book Atkins makes the strongest case yet outlining exactly how and why sugar and refined carbs harm us, not only by making us gain weight, but also by making us age. He explains clearly and his arguments are all well supported (which is typical for him). Lastly, this book talks extensively about supplements. The rumors that Atkins is all about bacon and steak is nonsense. You owe it to yourself to read this book and educate yourself about what Atkins really does advocate. Then you can make an informed decision about how you want to eat (and age). Good luck to you all.
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Summary: Amazing Book
Review: This book has really opened my eyes about eating well. We've all heard about the harmful effects of free radicals and the need for anti-oxidants, but many of us don't know exactly why. Atkins explains the science in clear terms. Understanding how and why free radicals damage us and anti-oxidants protect us really motivates people to eat well (at least it does for me). Of course, no Atkins book would be complete if it didn't advocate a strict reduction of processed carbs. This book is no different in that respect. What is different, however, is that in this book Atkins makes the strongest case yet outlining exactly how and why sugar and refined carbs harm us, not only by making us gain weight, but also by making us age. He explains clearly and his arguments are all well supported (which is typical for him). Lastly, this book talks extensively about supplements. The rumors that Atkins is all about bacon and steak is nonsense. You owe it to yourself to read this book and educate yourself about what Atkins really does advocate. Then you can make an informed decision about how you want to eat (and age). Good luck to you all.
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Summary: Stick With It, It's Worth The Read!
Review: This book starts out highly technical and hard to understand but as it progresses everything seems to tie together and is very much worth the read. See you at age 100!
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Summary: Stick With It, It's Worth The Read!
Review: This book starts out highly technical and hard to understand but as it progresses everything seems to tie together and is very much worth the read. See you at age 100!
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Summary: Waste of Good Money
Review: This book was a best "a waste of money". Diet Revolution is however "the book". Have lost 90 lbs and continuing downward. Sorry, Dr. Atkin's, this book is a waste.
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Summary: Atkins new masterpiece
Review: This new masterpiece of Dr.Atkins is going to go down in history as one of all time bestsellers in antiaging for this century. It is a complete integrated book about life extention and his famous Atkins diet.
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Summary: Felt sick all the time - stupid waste of money
Review: Tried this and Protien Power. Both bad. This book was a terrible waste of money and I am glad that I stopped doing it before I got sick. The other was no better. I don't know what the hype is about. You lose weight for a couple of days, tell everybody, then you feel sick all of the time. By then, everyone else has told everyone and on it goes. Then by the time you go off it, they've told everybody. Mad at myself for believing it!
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Summary: Atkins vs. AHA, AMA, FDA, etc. -- (and Atkins won.)
Review: Unfortunately, the editorial reviewer for Amazon.com who ridicules Atkins stance against the "experts" does not keep up with the latest medical journals, which have put Atkins claims to the test. Here's one of the latest from the New England Journal of Medicine: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/348/21/2082 The study lasted a year and tested the Atkins diet -- not against the regular, normal eating habits of Americans -- but against a low calorie "conventional" diet. The study showed that not only did those on the Atkins diet lose more weight than those on the low calorie diet but that they also experienced "a greater improvement in some risk factors for coronary heart disease."
And most significantly, as the article states:
"After three months, no significant differences were found between the groups in total or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations. The increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations and the decrease in triglyceride concentrations were greater among subjects on the low-carbohydrate diet than among those on the conventional diet throughout most of the study. Both diets significantly decreased diastolic blood pressure and the insulin response to an oral glucose load." This shouldn't come as a surprise as every similar test of low-carb diets has shown the same thing. The low carb diet not only causes more weight loss than low calorie diets; it matches the diet in terms of lower blood pressure and actually is significantly bettern in lowering triglycerides and in increasing HDLC
The reviewer must find these results incredible as he cannot seem to be able to imagine how all the scientists of the AMA, AHA, ADA, AAP, NIH, ACS, FDA, etc. could be wrong --and Atkins right. As the reviewer states: "Dump the food pyramid that the American Dietetics Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Cancer Society all implore you to follow for the sake of your health....If you believe that Dr. Atkins somehow knows better than all those experts and organizations, here's his latest--a plan to defy aging through eating a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, taking lots of supplements, optimizing your hormones, detoxifying your body through chelation therapy, exercising, and taking brain-boosters like ginkgo biloba. Free radicals, insulin resistance, sugar--these are the reasons we age, get sick, and get fat, insists Atkins, not dietary fat. Eggs are good for you. The cholesterol you eat does not affect the cholesterol in your blood, he says. He scoffs at "the unholy alliance among the American Heart Association, American Medical Association, American Diabetes Association, and U.S. government in its many manifestations (FDA, Department of Agriculture, NIH, et al.)." One wonders why Atkins thinks all these medical organizations would band together to promote an unhealthy diet and not herald Atkins as a genius if, indeed, he had the answer." As anyone familiar with the history of science or the Kuhnian nature of scientific revolutions understands, mainstream scientists often defend mainstream theories to a rabid and irrational degree -- while trying to suppress dissident views. Evidence against their theories are usually ignored, dismissed or overcome with a series of post hoc rationalizations. Waterston, the father of the kinetic theory of gases, could not get published. Wegener, the father of continental drift, was ridiculed by mainstream geologists. Boltzmann, the father of statistical mechanics, elicited tremendous controversy and fierce debate. Galileo couldn't even entice the professors of Padua to look through his telescope proving the existence of the moons of Jupiter. (One imagines the reviewer above would have listed all the geological organizations against Wegener as he reviewed, "The Origin of Continents and Oceans.")
As is always the case, scientist do band together and try their best to put down dissident theories.
And as shown by the latest studies from the New England Journal of Medicine, another dissident has just proved correct.
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Summary: Atkins vs. AHA, AMA, FDA, etc. -- (and Atkins won.)
Review: Unfortunately, the editorial reviewer for Amazon.com who ridicules Atkins stance against the "experts" does not keep up with the latest medical journals, which have put Atkins claims to the test. Here's one of the latest from the New England Journal of Medicine: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/348/21/2082 The study lasted a year and tested the Atkins diet -- not against the regular, normal eating habits of Americans -- but against a low calorie "conventional" diet. The study showed that not only did those on the Atkins diet lose more weight than those on the low calorie diet but that they also experienced "a greater improvement in some risk factors for coronary heart disease."
And most significantly, as the article states:
"After three months, no significant differences were found between the groups in total or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations. The increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations and the decrease in triglyceride concentrations were greater among subjects on the low-carbohydrate diet than among those on the conventional diet throughout most of the study. Both diets significantly decreased diastolic blood pressure and the insulin response to an oral glucose load." This shouldn't come as a surprise as every similar test of low-carb diets has shown the same thing. The low carb diet not only causes more weight loss than low calorie diets; it matches the diet in terms of lower blood pressure and actually is significantly bettern in lowering triglycerides and in increasing HDLC
The reviewer must find these results incredible as he cannot seem to be able to imagine how all the scientists of the AMA, AHA, ADA, AAP, NIH, ACS, FDA, etc. could be wrong --and Atkins right. As the reviewer states: "Dump the food pyramid that the American Dietetics Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Cancer Society all implore you to follow for the sake of your health....If you believe that Dr. Atkins somehow knows better than all those experts and organizations, here's his latest--a plan to defy aging through eating a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, taking lots of supplements, optimizing your hormones, detoxifying your body through chelation therapy, exercising, and taking brain-boosters like ginkgo biloba. Free radicals, insulin resistance, sugar--these are the reasons we age, get sick, and get fat, insists Atkins, not dietary fat. Eggs are good for you. The cholesterol you eat does not affect the cholesterol in your blood, he says. He scoffs at "the unholy alliance among the American Heart Association, American Medical Association, American Diabetes Association, and U.S. government in its many manifestations (FDA, Department of Agriculture, NIH, et al.)." One wonders why Atkins thinks all these medical organizations would band together to promote an unhealthy diet and not herald Atkins as a genius if, indeed, he had the answer." As anyone familiar with the history of science or the Kuhnian nature of scientific revolutions understands, mainstream scientists often defend mainstream theories to a rabid and irrational degree -- while trying to suppress dissident views. Evidence against their theories are usually ignored, dismissed or overcome with a series of post hoc rationalizations. Waterston, the father of the kinetic theory of gases, could not get published. Wegener, the father of continental drift, was ridiculed by mainstream geologists. Boltzmann, the father of statistical mechanics, elicited tremendous controversy and fierce debate. Galileo couldn't even entice the professors of Padua to look through his telescope proving the existence of the moons of Jupiter. (One imagines the reviewer above would have listed all the geological organizations against Wegener as he reviewed, "The Origin of Continents and Oceans.")
As is always the case, scientist do band together and try their best to put down dissident theories.
And as shown by the latest studies from the New England Journal of Medicine, another dissident has just proved correct.
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Summary: Atkins Dead at 72 -- Not Very 'Age-Defying'
Review: Why model yourself after failure? Dr. Atkins is dead. At only 72. And he looked much older than his age. He also suffered clinical death from cardiac arrest a year before he died. Autopsy showed he had suffered a heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension. As if this wasn't bad enough, Dr. Atkins was morbidly obese at his death! 258 pounds!! Where's the full disclosure?! If you want to stay young, why not model yourself on an anti-aging guru who has? Elixxir is "the only anti-aging guru who has actually stayed young." Marilyn Much, Senior Business Reporter, Investor's Business Daily Life Extension Magazine, with about 200,000 readers who want to stay young, in a rave review, described Elixxir's book THE IMMORTALIST MANIFESTO (available on Amazon) as "AN EXTRAORDINARY BOOK WHICH CHALLENGES THE BELIEF THAT WE MUST GROW OLD AND DIE." After the Atkins 'age-defying' regimen failed him and me miserably, a very successful friend introduced me to The Elixxir Program. It really works! My blood works are those of a 20-something now. After only six months on The Elixxir Program! The Elixxir Program is based on the only scientific way to dramatically slow down your aging. Read Elixxir's book The ImmorTalist Manifesto! It gives you the new anti-aging programming needed to really stay young. It's an incredible read. And then run to the elixxir.com website and find out about the Executive Memo telling you all about The Elixxir Program, the only scientific anti-aging program. This is the how-to "book." Bonus: The Elixxir Program is also the only scientific way to lose weight. A lot of weight. And to keep the damn fat off for life! So stay young and slim! Again, doesn't it make perfect sense to model yourself after an anti-aging guru who has actually stayed young?
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