[RightWhale]

When I did this diet 30 years ago it was the Monroe or Munro diet. 30 pounds in 30 days. Everybody thought I was smack, but it was amazing that clothing that was getting tight was rapidly becoming loose-fitting. No other effects except the the karate endurance, strength, and agility exercises suddenly started showing vast improvements as well.

[PoorMuttly]

The "professional dieticians" desperately need to cover their previous statements and social engineering campaigns. What they can't endure is people finding out for themselves that when one isn't fatigued by carbohydrates, excercise is much easier, which yields more energy and strength, which yields more enjoyable and successful exercise......

.......seems to me that throughout history, poor, subservient peoples were dominated by their wealthier, meat-eating fellows, who more easily recovered from their toils than the cheap-carb-eating peasantry. The ruling classes knew what kept them strong...and took it for themselves.

Once you have the fuel, strength and vitality increases through EXERCISE...which isn't as tiresome anymore. Exercise is the KEY to the "Atkins Diet," and those who know it, and DO it, do very well.

[tortoise]

No other effects except the the karate endurance, strength, and agility exercises suddenly started showing vast improvements as well.

An often overlooked benefit of Atkins-style diets. Most other diets seriously impacted my ability to perform at the gym, but Atkins has no discernable impact on athletic performance and arguably helps.

I never really used low-carb diets to lose weight, I used them because I feel healthier, stay leaner, and it works very well for people who are physically active. And I don't really diet per se, I just cut most of the sugars and carbs out of my diet as a matter of course for many years now. The result is that I have more energy and far less body fat than I should considering my job, and I get this with little or no effort.