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Study finds Atkins diet healthier than thought
The Seattle Times ^
| 11/20/02
| Daniel Q. Haney
Posted on 11/20/2002 9:18:15 AM PST by ppaul
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It works.
And for many of us, it's the only regimen that has EVER worked.
Thank God for Dr. Atkins.
The "experts" maligned him for years.
Vindication is sweet.
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posted on
11/20/2002 9:18:16 AM PST
by
ppaul
To: ppaul
Last week there was a post about a teenage girl who possibly had died from Atkins. I think maybe she was taking that hideous "ma huang" stuff (known to cause heart arythmia), and her death had nothing to do with Atkins.
Personally, I haven't been able to get the Atkins diet to kick-in (always 15 pounds quick, then flatline), but a friend of mine dropped 110 pounds from January to October.
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posted on
11/20/2002 9:25:59 AM PST
by
angkor
To: ppaul
"There is no magic combination of fat versus carbs versus protein," she said. "It doesn't matter in the long run. The bottom line is calories, calories, calories." BZZZZZTT! Another PhD gets it wrong!
To: angkor
"....but a friend of mine dropped 110 pounds from January to October. That sounds more like a divorce!
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posted on
11/20/2002 9:34:51 AM PST
by
jigsaw
To: ppaul
Yep. Thank God for this diet and for Dr. Atkins' tenaciousness.
I've lost 45 pounds while eating bacon, cheese, eggs, steak at every meal, butter. I'm never hungry and I don't think about food, which is a change. Prior to Atkins, it's all I ever thought about. I'd be in a business meeting, a lot of money at stake, and I'd be thinking about where I was going to go for lunch. If I got near donuts, my eyes would roll back in my head like a shark and I'd eat 4 or 5 before I knew what happened.
Prior to Atkins, my cholesterol was 271, now it's 181. My triglycerides were 148, now they're 69. My good cholesterol has improved and my bad cholesterol and gone down.
My doctor has fought me every step of the way. Maybe this report combined with seeing my success firsthand will make her open her mind a bit.
Jeff
To: jcsmonogram
'My doctor has fought me every step of the way.'
>>>>>>>>>>>>
Mine did too,at first.
But now after years and years of maintaining my weight loss, great bloodwork results and a complete reversal of a lot of other health problems, my doctor now recommends a low carbohydrate diet.
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posted on
11/20/2002 9:54:34 AM PST
by
Route66
To: ppaul
As someone struggling with weight for 50 years, ditto to that.
Diets were generally a failure, all the weight regained a few months or weeks after completion. I do recall periods in my life in which I would invent my own diet which would seem to work... in retrospect, these were Atkins like! Yet the anti-Atkins propaganda had worked and I never even considered the full Atkins diet until about four years ago... damn the experts for keeping me fatter for those twenty years!
To: jcsmonogram
My doctor has fought me every step of the way. Maybe this report combined with seeing my success firsthand will make her open her mind a bit.
One's health is too important to be left solely to doctors.
To: ppaul
Before you can say "vindication" not only do we need to see a larger study but also we need to see its effects on cancer and kidneys
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posted on
11/20/2002 10:22:16 AM PST
by
arielb
To: NC_Libertarian
Ping.
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posted on
11/20/2002 10:23:03 AM PST
by
ppaul
To: ppaul
I lost weight on the regimen, and completely control my Type II diabetes with this way of eating. No more glucophage for me, and all I had to do was eliminate the carbs in my diet. My HbA1c is 5.5, and my triglycerides are 36. You can't tell me it doesn't work, because I KNOW IT DOES.
In God We Trust.....Semper Fi
To: conspiratoristo
You may want to look into a book titled The Schwarzbein Principle. It is a similar diet to Atkins (protien and fat) but allows some carbs when combined with fat and protien. The principle in a nut shell is that what we ingest affects not only the relief of hunger but our various hormone levels and their attendant effect on our well being. Especially for women as we have many areas wherein hormones are especially delicate and can wreak havoc on our emotional and physical health.
To: jcsmonogram; ppaul; Route66
I may have to try the Atkins diet. God knows, my favorite foods are steaks, bacon, eggs, milk etc. Giving up these to eat celery is, for me, not an option. Hmm, a diet made up of my favorite foods...my only complaint would be giving up potatoes and breads, but hey, I may give it a try.
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posted on
11/20/2002 10:52:36 AM PST
by
Sender
To: ppaul
those on the Atkins diet had an 11 percent increase in HDL, the good cholesterolI have been on the low Carb diet on and off for approximately one year. I lost 20#, regained 10# during a time when I had a foot injury and could not do my usual 12-15 miles/week jogging. I am very happy with it - at my last physical, my HDL levels were fantastic, the doctor was quite impressed, and although my cholesterol was 204, she said my high HDL's made the cholesterol level pretty much irrelevant.
Just finished a lite lunch of garden salad smothered in rich, creamy Ranch dressing and large chunks of cheese. Yummy. No tasteless fat-free dressings or boring raw veggies for me. Tonight I will fry that great lookin' New York strip steak waiting in my fridge in a generous dollop of real butter. Can't wait.
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posted on
11/20/2002 10:55:13 AM PST
by
PLK
To: ppaul
I'm ok on weight and total cholesterol. But I need to raise HDL. I also want to stay young, as it were....so much I want to accomplish that I need to still be very strong at 65 and older. I am going to investigate.
But I find wading through the info cumbersome. Where do I start?
To: Sender
I may have to try the Atkins diet. God knows, my favorite foods are steaks, bacon, eggs, milk etc. Can't have milk, heavy cream is O.K., but milk contains too much sugar in the form of lactose. Sorry. But you can have all the cheese you want. Go for it.
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posted on
11/20/2002 10:56:47 AM PST
by
PLK
To: PLK
Is it just as simple as no carbs, no sugars, no fruits?
How much is 20 grams a day?
How about potatoes once a week?
Where can I get answers to these?
To: ConservativeDude
Carbs should come from green vegetables, nuts, and berries.
To: PLK
Can't have milk, heavy cream is O.K., but milk contains too much sugar in the form of lactose. Sorry. But you can have all the cheese you want. Go for it.
Where do we get the low down on these nuances?
To: kaktuskid
No orange juice? That is supposed to raise HDL. confusion here.
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