Posted on 09/05/2006 12:57:57 PM PDT by Mount Athos
I don't know.
This is the list of stuff I avoid:
Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, unfermented soy products, msg, canola oil (anything that overly processed can't be healthy), most breads and rice, potatoes.
>>"No medical person is going to tell you to have all that saturated fat in your diet and no carbohydrates." <<
This old tired line is such bunk.
I eat carbs all the time on Atkins. Good carbs. Veggies.
I can get low carb tortillas and have great wrap sandwiches!
As for the fat, I don't eat beef or pork. Lots and LOTS of chicken and fish. They are protein too.
I haven't lost tons of weight but I haven't gained either. Being an ex-anorexic, this is a huge plus for me.
Carbs feed a kind of insulin yo-yo cycle. Pretty soon, unless your blood sugar is somewhere in the stratosphere, you feel hungry.
I eat some carbs, but my diet is more meat-fresh vegetable oriented. It shifts as the weather turns cooler. Soon I will start cooking more soups, stews, and pastas.
sugar isn't naturally white. There goes her theory.
40...more than two years ago. Still gone!
I try to avoid artificial sweeteners until they can come up with something that doesn't metabolize into weird stuff. I never believed the horror stories about aspartame (not the same as Splenda). A few years ago, I started using a lot of in on cereal and in drinks. After a few weeks, my fingers and toes started to tingle and go numb. Scared the crap out of me. I thought I had MS or something. I stopped using it. Symptoms went away in a week or so. A few months later, I thought I'd try an experiment and start using it again. Symptoms came back. Bye-bye aspartame.
Neither is being a complete lardass .... so drink a lot of water to go with the diet.
Child abuse? Crack cocaine? Voting Dimocrat?
processed white I suppose. Wheat isn't white either but white bread is. Rice isn't white until the hull is removed. Avoid white processed stuff. Eat but don't be a pig.
It helps keep my blood sugar from crashing.
1. Drives up HDL (good cholesterol)
2. Drives down triglycerides
Man, the stuff was MADE for the USA...!
Actually if people would *read the books* and follow the plans as written the high protein diet is healthy. It's all the tweaking people do to speed up the weight loss that screws things up. People aren't supposed to gorge on fatty meats just eat enough to satisfy hunger. As time goes on they are supposed to add in the healthy whole carbs like veggies, fruit, nuts, beans, whole grains until they stop losing weight and then adjust down to where to where they start losing again. It's really a whole foods diet.
soy sauce....
yummy.
Not.
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijto/vol2n1/soy.xml
appetite as you deal with the pain fromt he Kidney stone you get with it. Also isn't good for your kidneys.
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Source?
Oh, BROTHER. I've never been able to figure out how, all of a sudden, the historical, traditional diet that kept humans healthy for thousands of generations suddenly got so toxic. Ah, well. I think I'll go grill myself a big, fat rib steak...
Shrimp are good too.
Dip em in melted butter.
On Atkins, carbs are only severely restricted (20 carbs a day) initially as a way to detox and rid yourself from the cravings bad carbs can cause, generally that is 2 weeks, but some people decide to do it longer than 2 weeks. Carbs are gradually increased as you do this way of eating so that eventually you know how many you can have in order to maintain your weight loss. They never mention that when trashing this diet. It's not at all just fried eggs, bacon, butter and cheese. I eat a much healthier diet on Atkins than I've ever eaten in my life of fresh vegetables, fruits and lean meat, fish and chicken. If I'm hungry, I eat. More importantly, I can stick to it. I've maintained the weight loss for a year, I've never felt better and my cholesterol numbers are great. And, I have the full support of my doctor who understands how this way of eating really works.
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