Atkins Beats Other Diet Plans in Study

Associated Press ^ | March 06, 2007 | LINDSEY TANNER

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Rice, bread, and potatoes raise your blood sugar rapidly and fall off rapidly, leaving you feeling hungry. Atkins and South Beach both start the induction phase by eliminating carbohydrates from these sources and attempting to get the blood sugar under control.

Fibers slows digestion of carbohydrates, and speeds intestinal transit time. Cooked oat bran, cooked rolled barley flakes are good if you don't have too much. I have a couple of sausages--I like farmland cider house--and cooked whole cereal for breakfast. To make the oat bran palatable I start with something like a tablespoon of Quaker Natural Oat granola (Sugared oat candy!) for sweetness, and add the oat bran, some salt. Oat has some gluten, but not as much as other grains. Keeps you regular, gets the HDL up.

Oat bran also binds to cholesterol, sweeps it out of the digestive system (Cholesterol is used by the body to create bile, and vitamen D. You do need some of it). Wheat bran doesnt do this. Oat bran is good stuff.

[freedomdefender]

thanks for the tip

[freedomdefender]

thanks for the tip

[redhead]

I lost fifty-five pounds on the Atkins diet. But I didn't keep it off, because when one gets "cute" again, one gets cocky, and thinks the rules don't apply any more, so they start to eat the "old way" again.

The BEST ally and diet buddy?? The diet diary, or logbook. Keeping track of every bite was really a sobering experience for me, but it also kept me honest. As soon as I stopped keeping track of what I was eating, I started cheating. After a while, though, one does retrain one's mind and habits. I'm back on it now, and will continue to do it right, and to stay with it for as long as it takes.

[glyemic1]

Interesting Atkins thread - seems Atkins is getting some better traction lately and has adopted a little more flexibility in their plans - including leaner food options and lower fat. Would have been nice to see more news on the GI Diet or Atkins vs. glycemic index table type foods as a follow up to this article.

[Junior_G]

I lost fifty-five pounds on the Atkins diet. But I didn't keep it off, because when one gets "cute" again, one gets cocky, and thinks the rules don't apply any more, so they start to eat the "old way" again.

So true. Atkins is the only diet that ever worked for me. I dropped 20 pounds so quickly that it actually frightened me; but once I looked good I decided I could eat the same junk that I used to.