Posted on 08/03/2005 7:10:46 AM PDT by summer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- More dieters are ditching carb counts and biting into baguettes with gusto these days. ...
This week's bankruptcy filing by the late Dr. Robert C. Atkins' old company provide fresh evidence of the low-carb diet's demise, a downward spiral that began early last year. But no single new diet has filled the void.
Observers say the only sure thing -- given the boom-and-bust nature of weight-loss trends -- is that something will pop up eventually.
''There isn't one single strong contender,'' said Anne M. Russell, editor-in-chief of Shape magazine. ''If you look at what the single largest trend is, it's weight gain.''
Chapter 11 filings by Atkins Nutritionals Inc. on Monday came about a year and a half after books like ''The Atkins Essentials'' rode the best seller charts, bread makers were back on their heels and Burger King introduced a Whopper without a bun.
But Atkins has been in decline since February 2004, said Harry Balzer, a food industry analyst at market researcher NPD Group. Balzer claims Atkins was one of those demanding diets that simply ran its course, going from fad to fade like so many others before it, including the Scarsdale and the cabbage soup diets.
How far and how fast did Atkins fall? By September 2004, surplus low-carb products were being shipped to food banks in Appalachia....
Ruth Kava, director of nutrition for the American Council on Science and Health, figures it might be something like a high-protein diet.
''Somebody will come up with something new,'' she said. ''There's a lot of creativity out there in Diet World."
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"It is only in the first two weeks of Atkins where one avoids all carbs."
Induction allows up to 20 carbs.
I believe the diet works, I just don't believe one necessarily needs to follow some convoluted diet to lose weight.
It's really no one's business. South Beach/Atkins/Weight Watchers/Jenny Craig/ etc - it's all about what works best for the individual - amazing that some people get so worked up over a diet
Caffiene is a major source of nutritionless energy (not quite empty calories, but close) and cutting back or eliminating it is a key to any successful diet plan.
"Caffiene is a major source of nutritionless energy (not quite empty calories, but close) and cutting back or eliminating it is a key to any successful diet plan."
Noooooooooooo! (Rocking on the floor, holding myself). I've got 30 lbs to drop, and I've already given up smoking and drinking. The coroner will have to pry the coffee from my cold dead hands.
Not to mention that most of it sucks. (I'll make an exception for the Advantage bars and shakes.) Ever try Atkins "pasta"? Yeeeeeechhhhhh!!! I'd rather eat the box it came in. On the other hand, now you can go with Dreamfields, which is made with real semolina flour, looks, acts, and tastes like real pasta, but is manufactured in such a way as to make most of the carbs non-digestable.
I will. Thanks!
I know that was your point--it was the other guy's point that your argument is meaningless. Searching on "grave" and "subway" returns 400,000 hits. Searching on "rebel" and "cookie" returns 315,000 hits. The number of hits is perfectly meaningless.
As for "detailing the dangers", can you give one, not two but one, example of someone who started a low-carb diet with healthy kidneys and suffered any sort of kidney damage as a result? I didn't think so--because there hasn't been one. Doctors have stated why they think low-carb dieting is a horrible idea, but they have not produced clinical studies indicating any risks. If you want to make your case, you'll have to do more than count the hits.
Um... no he wasn't. He was at about 180-190 pounds prior to slipping on ice and falling on his head -- the weight at death was caused by fluid retention in the hospital. Your assertions come straight out of a PETA front group press release, and have no basis in actual fact.
But that's ok... you can just lump me in as a "kool-aid drinker" because the facts are inconvenient to your assumptions and assertions.
Quitting smoking probably isn't going to help your weight loss, though the ticker will appreciate it. Cutting back will still give you many benefits, I'm a soda junky myself so I know the need for caffiene, when I went on my diet last year I cut my soda intake by 50% (among other things), today I'm 55 pounds lighter than I was March of 04 (with a 6 month break from the excercise regimen, life got ugly and the weather went to crap). Of course if you drink your coffee without sugar it's not as big a problem as soda, but that caffiene still messes with your metabolism in ways that are not condussive to weight loss. Also caffiene is a serious diaretic and can lead to dehydration, cutting back on the coffee and replacing it with regular boring old water can have other nice health benefits.
I know the list of evil things when you're thinking about losing weight can be pretty scary, that's why I went for portion control, I eliminated nothing and cut back on everything (except the booze, I don't drink that much anyway), a lot easier to stick to and there's no punishment for wanting to improve myself.
Agreed. I fought with my weight for years (and lost every battle,miserably) until I discovered the South Beach Diet.I found that a diet consisting mainly of breads,pasta and potatoes was not the way to go. I also discovered an herbal supplement that's really helped me-Glucomannan(viable-herbal.net). Between that,and the lowering of carbs in my diet, I have lost 90 lbs since last June and joined a gym. I feel better at 48 than I ever did at 28.The abundance of junk carbs was enough to keep me from being successful all of my life-up until now.
That's my biggest problem with "programs" like Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem -- by using their pre-packed stuff, you never learn how to cook properly for yourself, so it becomes that much harder to maintain the weight loss when you go off-plan.
About the wine, bread in manna in the bible, well - you see now, these people did not have Albertsons, Tom Thumb and your local deli to serve them this stuff. They had to go gather the wheat, ground it up, and make their own bread. Everything that went into their mouth they prepared themselves and used up all the carbs they ate in the act of preparing the food. No corn syrups or refined sugar either. I bet if you stomped your own grapes you burn some fat too.
Get it?
South Beach is without question the healthiest diet out there. The basic theory revolves around good fats, bad fats, good carbs, bad carbs. Sugar is a big no no, but Splenda works fine.
I quickly dropped 25 lbs. over two years ago and have not gained a pound since. I'm 65, nearly 6 ft with a 33" waist. I'm fanatical about always following the South Beach principles of eating.
The Doc that developed the diet is a cardiologist that originally designed the plan as a healthy way of eating for his heart patients. But everyone that followed it lost weight and he took it from there.
Lucky for you he's already dead, because this is one of the more blatant libels I've seen on FR in quite a while.
Do people who belong to dieting organizations have secret handshakes, take blood oaths of eternal obedience, etc.
I know, they could tell but then they'd have to kill us.
Actually, chocolate is just fine... as long as it's not mixed with sugar. Mrs. kevkrom makes a very nice low-carb chili (about 7 net carbs/portion) and uses (unsweetened) baking chocolate as one of the ingredients...
It's probably not indicative of everybody, but I was extremely successful doing the low-carb thing while ingesting lots of caffeine. Seems that Atkin's said no to caffeine, but we all have our little weaknesses. My wife discovered that aspartame would completely derail her.
gee what a shock...not
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