Posted on 05/26/2004 9:59:45 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
I don't care what kind of diet you're on. You can't eat like that and expect to have a healthy cardiovasular system.
Oooh, this'll be an ugly thread.
The guidelines in the book state you are supposed to stay on the induction phase for 2 weeks, not two years.
No one was ever told to pig out like that.
Well it was kind of a slow night...
"Hyperlipidemia," hmm? How about "lazy glutton syndrome"?
LOL!
First, who the hell goes on a diet when they weigh 148??? (Let me at 'em, I'll kill him! ;)
Second, there have been medical tests that show that if you follow the diet, your triglicerides (fat levels) and bad cholesterol levels actually go down dramatically as your body starts burning fat instead of the missing carbs -and your good cholesterol, HDL, goes up...
Not that I would know... much. ;)
The problem is that Atkins is counterintuitive -- the idea that you can lose fat by eating fat, SOUNDS impossible and crazy at first. Many people never get past this first impression. But it's based on sound biochemistry, and it works -- it absolutely works -- and for many people, it is the ONLY way that works. All the standard gov't-approved low-fat diets that Atkin's detractors would prefer we follow, are precisely what made us fat in the first place. Atkins worked when nothing else did.
I think that, in response to this suit, all the millions of us who gained weight on all the standard diets (in many cases, including mine, despite heavy exercise -- carbloading destroyed my running career), ought to sue all the lowfat peddlers. Bankrupt Pritikin!
So a vegan group is helping out with that lawsuit, eh? No hidden agenda there! (MY cholesterol dropped so much - after Atkins/low-carbing for over two years - that my doctor was completely amazed when she compared the before and after lab results last week. Thanks to eggs, cheese, beef and plenty of margarine!)
PETA front group
Why did he have his coronary arteries tested BEFORE starting the diet? This is not a normal test done in the absence of symptoms... like chest pain. Doctors do not prescribe invasive tests, and health insurers won't pay for the tests, in the absence of symptoms. Something is fishy.
140 pounds to 148 pound gain prompted him to go on Atkins???? He would have lost this amount in the first month on Atkins. Something is Phishy.
Something is physhy here... and it smells like Physicians for Responsible Medicine which is a front organization for PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
There are some low-carb versions that are pretty tasty. Not as good as the best I remember, but pretty good nonetheless.
I haven't weighed 148 pounds since I was a junior in high school.
I was put on the induction for two weeks by my doctor after a diagnosis of PCOS. After two weeks I'd lost 15 lbs, my cholest. has dropped, my bp had gone from high to perfect, my acne had started to clear up, my hair stopped falling out and I was feeling better than I had in months. Since that time I try to keep my carbs down to less than 100 g a day and I go low carb for a week or two every time I start to get symptoms. (that's about two or three times a year) I take my vitamins, minerals and fluids and try to use common sense.
People are very good at hearing what they want to hear.
True. The biggest fallacy in dieting has been that fat causes weight gain and increased lipids. Its not fat, but sugar, ie carbohydrates. I could go into all the biochemistry, but basically sugar makes fat sticky. Take some Coke or a doughnut and rub some in between your finger tips. They get all gooey. Same happens inside.
Cheese and cheesecake aren't in the induction phase. Cheesecake three times a week isn't on the menu ever, as far as I know.
If this stupid lawsuit goes through, I'm gonna drink three cases of Dr. Pepper each day to wash down the chocolate covered donuts I'm gonna eat every hour on the hour. I'm gonna call this my version of the "American Diabetes Association Diet". Then I'm gonna sue the American Diabetes Association...
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