Posted on 11/30/2004 7:22:32 AM PST by ZGuy
So where are all the anti-fat warriors?
fascinating...but prepare to get flamed by the Atkins cult around here..
Ve-r-r-r-ry interesting.
Why?
If you read Atkins all the way through, he advocates eating a lot as well as regularly.(Never go more than five hours between meals. Eat before and after exercise, etc. The idea is to NOT feel like you're dieting and to never be hungry.)
He just advocates not eating mass quantities of disguised sugar.
Of course, many only read up to the chapter on induction and stop, but that's their problem.
Bump for later
I know from experience in long term care, that those overweight by >20% (but not morbid) do better in crisis. An infection, a broken bone, major surgery etc -- they recover better and faster.
Those that are at their "IBW" or less usually have one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave. ANY weight loss in this population is a call for intervention because if not stopped, they will waste away.
No thanks. To paraphrase Mae West, I've been fat (after giving birth) and I've been in shape, and believe me, in shape is better. Thank you, Dr. Atkins.
No one should be starving oneself.
There is a big difference between an overweight or obese person losing weight and a healthy human being being put on a caloric restriction diet that is below his daily requirements.
Currently I intake between 1300 to 1800 calories per day, my lifestyle and weight/height average need is about 3000 calories a day, this causes me to lose about 2 to 3 lbs a week on average (you need to burn about 3500 calories per lb lost).
Now I need to lose weight, I have and intend to continue to do so. However I am not anywhere near my "ideal" weight.... A fit, low body fat individual placed on a 1600 calorie a day diet would emaciate himself over time.. his body would be forced to shut down non essential activities, digest muscle, lower activities, blood flow, sex drive etc etc.... That's starvation.
A person who is majorly overweight is not going to fall into that category. Since cutting my calories and getting more active, I am in much better physical shape, I am far more active, do not tire nearly as quickly as I used to etc etc etc.
Dieting is not evil, fad dieting is stupid.. starvation dieting is rediculous.
Eat Less and Exercise.
Even brilliant people succumb to anecdotal thinking outside their field.
I've got this love/hate relationship with food. I love food, but hate what it does to me.
Guess we all would like to be lean, mean, lovin' machines and retain the health we had in our twenties. This article points out what many of us feel, and what we've been through over the years.
It is a tough article to respond to. Thanks.
Most people over the age of thirty-five will start gaining one to three pounds a year. That really hurts by age sixty, but it represents overeating by about one piece of buttered toast a day -- hardly glutteny.
America turned to vegetable oil (and more sugar) and heart disease is booming.
More like hydrogenated vegetable oils (Crisco) and corn syrup!
Thought you might be interested in this article. Interesting and certainly not suprising.
I am. That's why I posted it! ;^)
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