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Diet food makers use a little fancy counting to make snack add up Riding the popularity of pre-wrapped meals and low-carb diets, low-carbohydrate bars have started elbowing diet shakes and whole-grain cereals off grocers’ shelves. Even beers and candies are showing up in low-carb versions, indulging the eternal American fantasy of effortless weight loss. The math behind the labelRemoving carbohydrates from a convenience food is no easier than taking the odor out of garlic, so the manufacturers of low-carb bars took another approach. They stopped counting the carbs in artificial sweeteners. The Atkins Endulge chocolate candy bar, for example, proclaims...

<p>WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Nutritionists are urging the top 10 U.S. hospitals to ban the Atkins diet, reports said Friday.</p> <p>The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine announced Friday in Washington it hopes the hospitals will emulate England's Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, which is eliminating the controversial diet from its menus, fearing a link to kidney damage.</p>

Carb Scare TacticsDiabetes Blog « More Timely Topics | Main July 08, 2003Carb Scare TacticsU.S. News and World Report has an article in their upcoming issue (7/14/03) entitled: "The Diabetes Diet Wars: The nutrition advice given to most diabetics might be killing them" that discusses the great carb debate - again. Headlines like this really rub me the wrong way, especially for those who are newly diagnosed and may read this piece. The article does touch on some interesting points in the ADA nutrition guidelines vs. low-carb debate, but unfortunately leaves out critical information. Begin rant here... Here's the...

Two Studies Vindicate Atkins Diet May 21, 2003 4:00 pm US/Central (AP) A month after Dr. Robert C. Atkins' death, his much-ridiculed diet has received its most powerful scientific support yet: two studies in one of medicine's most distinguished journals show it really does help people lose weight faster without raising their cholesterol. The research, in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, found that people on the high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet lose twice as much weight over six months as those on the standard low-fat diet recommended by most major health organizations. However, one of the studies found that...

Nov. 18 — Multitudes swear by the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, and now a carefully controlled study backs them up: Low-carb may actually take off more weight than low-fat and may be surprisingly better for cholesterol, too. ... Westman studied 120 overweight volunteers, who were randomly assigned to the Atkins diet or the heart association’s Step 1 diet, a widely used low-fat approach. On the Atkins diet, people limited their carbs to less than 20 grams a day, and 60 percent of their calories came from fat. “It was high fat, off the scale,” he said. After six months, the...

Okay... I did it. I read the New Diet Revolution and I've bought into the whole notion of a 0 - 20 gram per day, low carbohydrate diet. I'm in the "induction phase," and the Doctor assures rapid weight loss during this initial two-week run. Supposedly, as success is achieved, the dieter can begin to gradually increase the amount of carbs that they consume. The trick is to remain in ketosis while attempting to shed weight. My most important question is if any freepers out there have had any success with this diet and what tips might they be able ...