Fad Diets (Bashing low Carb diets Alert!)

wbz4 ^ | 4-9-03

[Hildy]

Before I started the diet, I tried to monitor what I ate and how I felt after, and it never failed that after I ate the carbs adn sugar I felt tired and dizzy and weak. I haven't felt like that once since starting this diet!

[Servant of the Nine]

My three favorite food groups used to be beer, bread, and pasta, with veggies on the side. Although I will now occassionally have a beer or piece of bread (whole grain only), I haven't had pasta in months. Now I eat fish, poulty, cheese, eggs, beef, and bacon, with lots of spinich, beans, mushrooms, carrots, asparagus, cuc's, and just about anything green and leafy, When I feel like snacking, I eat peanuts from the shell, which provide lots of highly complex carbs, protein, and good fat.

Gaaack. Why bother to live?
I eat what I like, and if it kills me, then I'll die happy.

When my weight gets too high, I simply fast for a week or two until it's low enough. Dieting is disgusting, so you should go all the way and get it over as quickly as possible and then go back to a decent lifestyle.

SO9

[Servant of the Nine]

Before I started the diet, I tried to monitor what I ate and how I felt after, and it never failed that after I ate the carbs adn sugar I felt tired and dizzy and weak. I haven't felt like that once since starting this diet!

Then you might be borderline diabetic. The same does not apply to everyone.

So9

[Servant of the Nine]

Shad up and eat yer spinach.

Thanks, but I prefer to have a steer convert it to Rib Roast first.

So9

[wastoute]

I can't say that it will LOWER your cholesterol, thought Atkins does say it may. Atkins says it does raise your cholesterol for several weeks and then it goes down. My cholesterol has never been over 150. O.K., guilty, I was a little misleading, but I was trying to show that Atkins won't necessarily RAISE your lipids. Of course this goes against everything the "establishment" is trying to push.

[A. Patriot]

Yawn!!!!! Yes, we need to cut out all fat from our diets and replace it with carbs. Most candy is a fat free food! It sure has worked wonderfully the last decade or so. (/sarcasm)

[lafroste]

I went from 296 to 208 lbs in six months. Cholesterol went from 220 to 178. Stress tolerance skyrockets from struggling to swim 300 yds to struggling to swim 2,200 yds.

I have concluded that corn is the killer. And corn is in nearly every pre-packaged food (even Slim-Jims). Atkins is right, these guys need to be more forthright in their analysis. Ask them why, after 25 years of dieting, diet this and sugar-free that, obesity in America has risen dramatically...

[wastoute]

HDL is said to be cholesterol returning from the tissues to the liver, so in a sense you are right about LDL coming from diet. Not completely accurate, though. LDL is "packaged" in the Liver, it may be just "recycled" though.

[Hildy]

I'm aware of that. I have an appointment on April 22nd for a complete physical. My uncle was a diabetic. I told them that was my main concern.

[lafroste]

The good Dr. is telling you true. My blood chemistry showed radical improvements in all areas after two months on Atkins. Maybe it can be used to control your cholesterol even if you don't need to lose weight.

[Pukka Puck]

"Leave a whole category of foods out of your diet and there'll be consequences."

Yep. It's called losing weight.

[Hang'emAll]

Both my wife and I have lost 40+ pounds this year on Atkins. My blood pressure has dropped to where I don't need meds and chronic reflux is gone, no meds for it either.

Never feel famished, never feel stuffed, feel comfortable all day.

[Zon]

Atkins diet, may not be conducive to long-term health and the dangers of such dieting remain to be seen.

It's been thirty years and you parasites with a vested interest in the status quo have failed to refute the health benefits of the Atkins diet. Thirty years and you have arrived at no decisive conclusion -- I'd say that speaks volumes about your ineptness. Irrelevance is the word that comes to mind.

[Nov3]

Remember a few months ago when Con-Agra declared war on low carb? This might be some of their shills.

Breakfast Today

3 pieces of sausage
3 egglands best eggs
blueberries and heavy cream
2 tbsp fish oil

I am not hungry and falling asleep at 10:30 like I was 6 or so years ago. I am also wearing my 31" waist jeans like I haven't done since 1984.

[Nov3]

My wife Katie_Colic and I have to say that the sea change in low carb on this site from 1998 is totally heartening! I remember being on of few who supported Atkins while everyone else attacked him. So many people have seen the obvious results of Atkins it is impossible to ignore. Thank God for Atkins!

My wife goes to a site called lowcarbfriends.com and during the election there was a poll to see if people were republican or dumocrats. The results were overwhelmingly repub! This on a non political sight. Evidently the democrats are unable to look past the diet lies and falures that have been foisted on them. Unable to think independently - who would have thought!

[Darnright]

"Before I started the diet, I tried to monitor what I ate and how I felt after, and it never failed that after I ate the carbs adn sugar I felt tired and dizzy and weak. I haven't felt like that once since starting this diet!
Before I started the diet, I tried to monitor what I ate and how I felt after, and it never failed that after I ate the carbs adn sugar I felt tired and dizzy and weak. I haven't felt like that once since starting this diet!"

Same here. I had a glucose tolerance test, where they make you drink that narsty orange sugar syrup, then take blood from you at hourly intervals. During the test, I couldn't keep my eyes open. I felt like I was going to fall asleep and fall out of the chair.

My blood glucose was low, although not to diabetic levels. I hate the way too much sugar makes me feel.

[CajunConservative]

Evidently the democrats are unable to look past the diet lies and falures that have been foisted on them. Unable to think independently - who would have thought!

If they would eat more protein and good fats they would be able to think and reason better.

[olivia3boys]

I don't know about the "no dairy" thing. I've been pregnant or nursing since 1996 and I think I'd have an awful time getting enough calcium naturally without milk (I don't like "fortified" OJ or calcium supplements).

Maybe MOST people don't need dairy but for me drinking 3 glasses of milk/day is much easier than eating spinach all day long.

[gura]

Is this the same Paradox that posts on mfw? :-)

[gura]

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