Beef Vs. Bagels: Food Companies Take on Dr. Atkins

Reuters Science via Yahoo ^ | 3-16-03 | Carey Gillam

[redhead]

"Atkins is essentially right both from the human evolutionary and metabolic perspectives. The food companies must stop whining and concentrate on producing palatable, low-carb foods. Period. They've already lost, they just don't know it yet."

The thing that continues to bother me about the SAD (standtard American diet) is this: At what point did the natural, nutritious, and historical diet of humans become toxic, and the synthetic, processed and "fortified" pap that PASSES for a diet these days become a nutritious replacement? (answer: It never did. The SAD is STILL a cheap, dangerous imitation.)

[Quilla]

I started a no (or quite low) carb diet March 1 as I'd like to lose 15-20 lbs. I've been George Forman grilling hamburger patties and boneless chicken breasts. Along with my favorite cheeses and hardboiled eggs, I've been ok with the slim choices. Because mayo has no carbs, I've enjoyed chicken and egg salads as well. I have a fridge at the office and whenever I get hungry, I eat a small portion of something totalling about six tiny meals a day. If I had to go straight to night classes, I'd have a small cooler in my car for storing my goodies. Oh, and I'm drinking about a gallon and a half of water per day.

[redhead]

Dennis: Thank you for that thorough post! I am a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and I have to say that I am always thrilled when I see the findings of Dr. Price vindicated. There are times when his book is unavailable, and I'm sure it's an indication that LOTS of people are reading it at last. He was a true prophet, and his work is just as valid today as it was when he made his studies. His website is at WESTON A. PRICE. There is a wealth of real information on REAL nutrition there.

[chilepepper]

Thankg G-d for nuts, pure peanut butter or almond butter, sugar free jello and whipped cream, small amounts of artificial sugar or bittersweet chocolate.

Amen. To that, the missing ingredient is --- FRESHLY TOASTED COCONUT!

With that, sugar free jello, perhaps a strawberry or two and heavy cream, who the heck needs cake & ice cream!

Darn I wish I had followed Atkins 20 years ago!!!!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Our industry has to do something, and soon. It is starting to become a mainstream belief that carbohydrates are bad," said Judi Adams, director of the Wheat Foods Council,

Too late. Good or bad...the genie is out of the bottle.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Trying to force the market to stick to high-carbs would be insane and could lead to a major liability problem down the road.

Kind of reminds me of the situation that The Big Record Labels are in vs. Napster/Kazaa and other P2P software.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

But, read the labels, some of Marie's blue cheese dressing is too high in carbs. You have to get the one that has no sugar in it.

Correct. You have to watch those labels. Some of the 'Lite' offerings are higher in carbs than the 'regular' fare.

[Sloth]

Some people have the same shrill distrust of low-carb dieters as they do homeschoolers... can't stand the idea of anybody getting off the plantation.

[ko_kyi]

Hi there avg_freeper, I am in a similar boat regarding not having time to prep stuff at work.

First, don't skip meals. Atkins' diet is practically impossible to follow if you let yourself get overly hungry. Prepare a simple snack to tide you over to dinner. Keep in mind I eat more carbs than many Atkins followers because I don't have a lot of weight to lose and I run daily.

Suggestions for no-prep meals and a few emergency snacks

Meals

Wedge of cheese, small apple, celery, raw broccoli, can of tuna

Cut melon, spinach salad, grilled chicken or steak made the day before

Shrimp (bought already cooked but frozen)boiled the day before, cocktail sauce, salad

Snacks

Bag of spicy roasted peanuts, Granny smith apple, can of smoked oysters, beef jerky

[dennisw]

I see you're in Alaska. Weston Price studied a few Indian tribes way up in the Canadian north. There will never be another Weston Price, partly because the "peoples" just aren't there any more and are eating white man's food.  William Albrecht was also a pioneer.

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:O-amzH4nWGkC:www.soilandhealth.org/copyform.asp%3Fbookcode%3D010143letslive1966+%22William+Albrecht%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:FL68VHnluAEC:nutri-tech.com.au/articles/Albrecht.htm+%22William+Albrecht%22++++soil&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

 

 

[Aquinasfan]

Part of the consortium's push will be in Washington, where federal health officials are starting talks on revisions to the nation's 11-year-old Food Guide Pyramid.

I can tell you, I'm pretty pissed about being sold the "food pyramid" as gospel truth rather than as theory. (It reminds me of how I felt when I started to look into the "fact" of evolution.) The people are well out ahead of the government and the medical establishment on this one.

[dennisw]

Thanks for the Weston Price website

[Washi]

I gotta call BS on this one.

I, too, have lost 30 pounds. I started Atkins on January 6th (my wife got me the Atkins book on my birthday, Jan. 5th).

I had already been losing weight by eating less and exercising, but Atkins is taking it off quicker.

I lost 30 lbs from August, 2002 until January, 2003, and another 30 since January on Atkins.

Washi

[Aquinasfan]

Products made with white flour, sugars and hydrogenated oils are the worst.

Forget the tobacco industry. Go after the companies loading up their snacks with hydrogenated oils.

[MaggieMay]

Happy St Patrick's Day. Dead always enjoy your posts. Pharmboy, I have a low carb cookbook I like, "The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook",by Michael Eades. I bought it through, Buy.com it was cheaper and they had no shipping charge. Bon Appetit(I apologize in a advance for using a french word)

[chilepepper]

If you go to McDonalds, by far the healthiest thing to do is to throw away the bread. Then, throw away the meat and eat the pitiful piece of lettuce with the cardboard box...

[Giddyupgo]

I've been on Atkins for 8 months.....and there is bread you can eat. It's "Nature's Own Reduced Carbohydrate". I found this on the Everything Atkins Message board.

[Aquinasfan]

it is hypothesized that 1 in 200 suffer some degree of gluten intolerance due, in part, to the 'milling' techniques started back during the early 1900's.

I'm one of them, and probably developed a form of rheumatoid arthritis because of it. My digestive problems have disappeared since going gluten-free. (Thanks to Remicade, my arthritis symptoms have also vanished). Next up, a low-carb diet.

[Giddyupgo]

I've been on Atkins for over 7 months.....and go here

http://www7.addr.com/~atkinsdiet/tips.html

Tons of great info on this site. Recipes, and help.

[HamiltonJay]

No one will argue that pounding grains into powder produces anything good. Flour is about as worth while nutritionally as sugar... I don't subscribe to the low car/no carb but there is little doubt that mainlining carbs is unhealthy and bad.