Posted on 08/03/2005 7:10:46 AM PDT by summer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- More dieters are ditching carb counts and biting into baguettes with gusto these days. ...
This week's bankruptcy filing by the late Dr. Robert C. Atkins' old company provide fresh evidence of the low-carb diet's demise, a downward spiral that began early last year. But no single new diet has filled the void.
Observers say the only sure thing -- given the boom-and-bust nature of weight-loss trends -- is that something will pop up eventually.
''There isn't one single strong contender,'' said Anne M. Russell, editor-in-chief of Shape magazine. ''If you look at what the single largest trend is, it's weight gain.''
Chapter 11 filings by Atkins Nutritionals Inc. on Monday came about a year and a half after books like ''The Atkins Essentials'' rode the best seller charts, bread makers were back on their heels and Burger King introduced a Whopper without a bun.
But Atkins has been in decline since February 2004, said Harry Balzer, a food industry analyst at market researcher NPD Group. Balzer claims Atkins was one of those demanding diets that simply ran its course, going from fad to fade like so many others before it, including the Scarsdale and the cabbage soup diets.
How far and how fast did Atkins fall? By September 2004, surplus low-carb products were being shipped to food banks in Appalachia....
Ruth Kava, director of nutrition for the American Council on Science and Health, figures it might be something like a high-protein diet.
''Somebody will come up with something new,'' she said. ''There's a lot of creativity out there in Diet World."
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Just read all the posts on this thread. Reminds me of the wars of religion.
(Never had a weight problem, always eat what I want and exercise when it's pleasant. Doctors would go bankrupt if I was the only patient. I'm mystified by threads like this.)
The reason Atkins failed is because you can go in any large market and buy low carb items for a fraction of what Adkins charged for their products. This is why they are going out of business.
As for the idea of the diet, it works and it is not bad for you, I lost 29 pounds on it and there is nothing wrong with my body from doing it except I am healthier because of the loss of weight.
My understanding is that Dr Adkins died while in a coma and had put on some weight from the long stay in the hospital while in a coma.
See my post #48.
When God publishes his next cookbook I'll see what He has to say about bread ~ bet it'll be something like "Too high in carbs."
Google summer dumbass = 156,000 hits...
LOL...
ROTFLMAO...
You never read God's recipe book in the Old Testament! Ezekiel subsisted on bread and the Israelites lived on manna that possessed high sugar content. Christ turned water into wine. God said the wine will overflow in paradice.
Apparenly, God needs to read Atkins.
Atkins really works for me. I think the big misconception in the diet is that you cannot eat carbs...that's not right at all. Atkins is, quite honestly, that old addage: all things in moderation. I've found I can eat just about anything as long as I don't overdose on carbs, and I maintain my healthy weight. If I start eating too many carbs the weight goes back on immediately. I don't stress over it, either. If I 'cheat', I don't agonize. I really do think Atkins is misunderstood more than anything else.
In any case, the company may have gone under but I'll be a low carb dieter the rest of my life.
Didn't John the Baptist live on crickets or something?
Nothing wrong with Adkin's diet it works great. I lost 30 lb's 4 years ago, and have been on what I call "Adkins Lite" for a few years. I just avoid bread, flour and Sugar. Every once and a while I'll splurge on Pizza, Key lime pie or no sugar ice cream….the heck with it..! Everything else, veggies, meats, fruit (I don’t worry about fresh fruit sugar) is fair game. I'm 42 and my physicals have been A+. If you think it's unhealthy, you are ignorant and have probably never ready his book. Also, Adkins foods went bankrupt…the company has nothing to with one following the diet, which can be done without spending 1 cent on diet products. Their foods and bars were expensive as heck! I'm not at all surprised they went bankrupt there! … Low-carbin (note I said Low not No) for life and lovin it!
And arctic blubber and meat eaters lived to a ripe old age of 40 or so.
:-)
I agree, there are different constitutions and people have different eating requirements.
I became vegetarian because of ethical reasons and not for health, although that is a side benefit. Some meat may be okay as far as health (wild game, not factory slaughter house meat) but the suffering the animal experiences is part of every bite and will have to be experienced by the eater at some point in the future.
Believe it or not, the laws of nature are inexorable.
Big chunks of cheese are my downfall. I try to resist them.
They call out to me, sometimes...
Ah...this thread is nothing. Just don't post anything about Walmart or Harley Davidson. Those threads are probably still going.
Didn't John the Baptist live on crickets or something?
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