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Americans Eating More Fat, Risking Health (but people do not seem to be losing weight !)
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| Mar 5, 2004
Posted on 03/06/2004 6:43:27 AM PST by traumer
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"...low-carb" diets grow in popularity, but people do not seem to be losing weight and they are putting their health at risk "
I am confused now - I thought Atkins worked !?
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:43:27 AM PST
by
traumer
To: traumer
If you take in more than you can and/or will burn off, you're gonna gain weight. No matter what you eat.
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:44:42 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: traumer
Atkins works for people who use it. They are just pointing out the population on a whole is not losing weight. In other words, the people who are not on atkins are not losing weight.
To: Always Right
Actually, I know people on Atkins who are gaining weight. They're just overeating on Atkins. They haven't addressed their portion contol problem.
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:50:48 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: traumer
There's so much wrong with this, I don't know where to start. How about: In 1999, 70 percent of those surveyed were trying to eat less fat in their diets. And yet, as they endlessly tell us, we were getting fatter and fatter anyway. Doesn't that mean that diet didn't work? Or how about: The study assessed more than 4,000 people in the United States, Britain, Japan and China. China and Japan, huh? You don't suppose there could be a genetic component to BMI?
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:51:34 AM PST
by
prion
To: Always Right
You are correct sir. I am a doc and was THE biggest skeptic about Atkins for years. Now my wife and I have lost thirty pounds each on the diet. The key is sticking to it. Many people have starting eating all the meat and fats again, but did not cut out the carbs. Atkin's has given them a pass to pig out on the meats without paying the price. Low carb works if you do it by the book. My cholesterol is down and so is my wife's. It's the cheaters that are giving Atkin's a bad name.
To: traumer
I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Does this mean that bacon and cheese are not health foods after all?
To: mewzilla
but people do not seem to be losing weight and they are putting their health at risk, U.S. researchers said on Friday. ahhh...
is this the PETA group again?
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:54:38 AM PST
by
evad
(We all stand together OR we hang separately!)
To: traumer
Don't forget, "calories" do count. I cannot lose weight on Adkins unless I cut down on calories, as well. Some people think they can lose wieght by eating a giant steak washed down with "low carb" beer.
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:55:53 AM PST
by
tirednvirginia
((But things are looking up!))
To: traumer
Who would have thought reducing simple starches and sugars would take on the role of New Obsession (like tobacco and SUVs) in the addled corridors of the liberal media mind?
I have some high-protein toast turning brown in the toaster as I type. I'm also having some pecans over my high-protein cereal and locarb milk. That's going to be breakfast. What's great about the locarb milk is that it does not upset my stomache the way milk did years ago, when I stopped drinking it. Now I'm getting all that easy calcium again, and it's delicious.
An Atkins dieter eats an incredible lot of broccoli, beans, salads and fresh greens. I used to eat bread and pasta instead of those things. Keeping fresh veggies and fruit around is a challenge--it involves getting to the store more often. I used to just keep pasta dry in the pantry, along with the crackers. Atkins is not a cheap way of eating.
While I do enjoy lots of beef, I have fish at least two or three times a week. More, if you count canned fish like tuna and sardines for snacking.
Not only did I lose weight, but I've kept it off almost two years.
The only think I really miss is homemade corn bread, and I even have a little bit of that once in a while.
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:56:21 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: mewzilla
Actually, I know people on Atkins who are gaining weight. They're just overeating on Atkins. They haven't addressed their portion contol problem. An interesting group of people you know there mewzilla.
I suspect they 'say' they are trying to do Atkins but are probably cheating a little here and there.
You can't do that with Atkins.
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:58:50 AM PST
by
evad
(We all stand together OR we hang separately!)
To: WilliamWallace1999
Sounds like the pubbies, we are smaller government lower taxes and making you responsible for your life.
But hey we aren't going to control our spending, we are going to give you everything you want and hope you don't notice you are going to pay for it later, with higher taxes and a more intrusive gubermint.
Atkins diet is like that if you follow the basic tenets then you are going to lose weight, but if you pig out guess what you will pay for it in the end.
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posted on
03/06/2004 6:59:07 AM PST
by
dts32041
( "Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments.")
To: mewzilla
Actually, I know people on Atkins who are gaining weight. They're just overeating on Atkins. They haven't addressed their portion contol problem. They don't understand Atkins then. Atkins diet makes your body burn more calories, but it is not unlimited. You can eat about 50% more calories and still lose weight versus a convential diet, but if you are gonna eat 3000 plus calories a day it will not work.
To: tirednvirginia
When I started Atkins years ago, I increased my caloric intake approx 500C more per day. My appetite was carb-driven, and those extra kept me from feeling hungry. I lost weight, but very slowly.
Gradually the appetite backed off, but I still consume more calories than the dieticians say I should have, and my weight is gone and under control. I do stress that my weight loss was not rapid. I went through several long plateaus--if I had been going hungry through them, I would have been discouraged.
"A calorie is a calorie is a calorie" is simply dogma. The body breaks down different substances in different ways. Protein and fat will not jazz up your insulin. I have come to believe that refined sugar is a bad thing for many people--though I dearly love to bake.
Kerosene is not alcohol is not gasoline, even though you may have equal calories of each.
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posted on
03/06/2004 7:03:14 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: traumer
My brain hurts!
Do the Atkins.....Don't do the Atkins. Don't eat fruits....eat fruits. Don't eat grains......eat grains. Eat high protein meats.......don't eat meat.
I will admit that I have gone from 205 to 197 over the last month from being on an Atkins diet. However, the diet (as most diets are) is BOREING! In addition, I run and weight-lift, which is where I'm going right now (while watching FOX's 'business block' of shows while on the treadmill).
To: Mamzelle
locarb milk Dint know such a thing existed. I did a google on 'low carb milk' and came up with KETO.
Is that what you use?
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posted on
03/06/2004 7:05:58 AM PST
by
evad
(We all stand together OR we hang separately!)
To: traumer
A lot of people having staked quite a bit on the low-fat, high-carb paradigm; they're not going to give it up easily no matter what the evidence says.
There's much more to health than simply keeping your weight down. You need to consider repair, immunity, and all the general bodily processes, which rely heavily on adequate and varied sources of protein. People don't live on energy and vitamins.
To: WilliamWallace1999
Now my wife and I have lost thirty pounds each on the diet. The key is sticking to it.That would be the case with any diet.
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posted on
03/06/2004 7:07:25 AM PST
by
fml
( You can twist perception, reality won't budge. -RUSH)
To: All
All I can tell you is that it works if done correctly. I won't attempt to explain the science of it but like many, I am living proof. I have lost 55 lbs in 4 months on Atkins.
There is a ton of misinformation out there about it. You can't pound down 20 oz. steaks all day and expect to lose weight. Portion control is still a factor. But what is great about it is the changes to your metabolism which makes food cravings disappear and makes the portion control a snap.
Also, I eat more veggies now than I ever did pre-Atkins.
Don't buy in to the PETA based misinformation campaign.
To: tirednvirginia
If you really pick apart the Atkins diet and calorie counting it's clear that Atkins is cutting out the calories, but use carbs instead and people think its something special. Its really just a diet like any other diet - you have stick to it in order to lose the pounds.
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posted on
03/06/2004 7:10:25 AM PST
by
fml
( You can twist perception, reality won't budge. -RUSH)
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