[DB]

We reduced the fats, like butter and meats, and increased the intake of refined wheat and sugars.

And we gained weight...

And diabetes grew dramatically in the population...

It couldn’t possibly be that Atkins was right and everyone else was wrong…

Personally, I think he’s right.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Me too. The sugar, grain, citrus, etc industries have done a good sales job.

[Ladysmith]

I agree with you. Atkins knew what he was talking about.

These complicated little bodies have alot more than just food and exercise affecting the weight. Atkins had shown me certain medicines, yeast, and lack of nutrition affects my weight loss. I have worked out till blue in the face and haven't lost weight the way I am now doing Atkins and making changes to the factors above.

I can't look at obese people without feeling empathy for them - they've been sold the lie as I had been on what to do to lose weight, only to have their health and weight loss goals sabotage by sugar, flour, trans fats, etc., etc.

[Dr.Deth]

It couldn’t possibly be that Atkins was right and everyone else was wrong…

Personally, I think he’s right.

Personally, I think he's dead. :-\

In any event, what good can comes from Atkins and Sears is that people should cast the suspicious eye on carbos that had previously been cast on fats. For myself personally, it's a matter of exercise. If I exercise, I keep the 32-inch waist. If I don't, then I gotta try to find the box with the 36's.

What's actually happening is a return to the commonly accepted 'folk knowledge' of hundreds of years, before pointy-headed university nutritionists foisted their inane 'food pyramid' upon the American populace as yet another liberal Great Society social experiment.

[Calvin Locke]

I always liked the Scarsdale diet. Following it was sort of a discipline. Only for a couple of weeks at a time, but it
did tend to break bad habits.

Not that the bad habits didn't come creeping back.

[randita]

We reduced the fats, like butter and meats, and increased the intake of refined wheat and sugars.

You nailed it. The rise in obesity corresponds with the low-fat craze and the indoctrination of the food pyramid (with its 5 servings of wheat and grains per day). Low fat in processed foods usually means high sugar.

[meandog]

ATkins is most definitely right...but he also gives me the worst gout I've ever suffered!

[Capt.YankeeMike]

it IS a simple equation. If you burn more calories than you take in, you lose/maintain your weight. If you take in more calories than you burn off, you put on weight. Very simple. Eat less, exercise more, until you get the first scenario, then keep it up. Very simple.