[Jimmyclyde]

The message is clear, Americans trying to lose weight by eating more protein and fat while reducing carbohydrates could, in fact, be hurting themselves.

Prove it!!!

[Aquinasfan]

To lose weight and also reap the health benefits, researchers recommend a "balanced" diet rich in fruits, vegetables and complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains.

Having experienced tremendous results with Atkins, may I kindly reply, "F--- off!"

[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)

[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!

[Yankee]

Researchers also say it isn't the restriction of carbohydrates that leads to weight loss, but instead an overall reduction in total calories.

Pure unadulterated crap.

I lost 52 lbs from 8/30/97-11/15/97. 237-185

I am a big eater, and I mean BIG

I was eating steaks that were so large they were hanging off the plate. (If it ain't at least 24ozs it ain't a steak in my book)

There was absolutely no reduction in calories, in fact I'll bet there was an increase.

And I was never, I repeat, never uncomfortable from hunger, because I could eat whenever I wanted.

I have never gone over 195 again since. I go on and off the diet as I see fit to keep my weight in a 2-3 pound range.

My doctor admitted that even though he suspected that the diet was "harmful in the long term" that so many of his patients had lost so much weight and were in good overall health that he couldn't condemn it entirely.

His biggest surprise was that the majority of Atkins dieters he'd examined, including me, had significantly improved cholesterol levels.

[RightFin]

Thanks for posting this thread!

I am starting my 4th week following the induction for the Atkins plan. So far, I've lost 12-14 pounds!!!

Over the last ten years, I've gone on fad diets and lost 20 and gained back 30. Then I lost 30 and gained back 40.

This is NOT a diet -- this is a way of eating for life. I spent my 30's being overweight and I will not spend the rest of my life living that way. My husband is very supportive and even a bit jealous of the food I get to eat! :)

Thank Goodness for Atkins -- I've tried EVERY diet out there and none of them have worked. As a matter of fact, I used to start a new diet at least once a week... not anymore!

[Maven]

I've been having a great time reading the responses on this thread!

I'm probably the queen of low carbing here - been doing it for almost 5 1/2 years, and have lost more than 175 pounds.

I feel terrific, and my last cholesterol test showed an overall count of 142, with triglycerides of 46. I needed to bump up my HDL levels a bit, so I added in more monosaturated fats.

Both my parents started low carbing - my mother a couple of years ago, and my father last July. My mother has lost about 50 pounds, and now lifts weights three times a week - at the age of 66 (she's so cute!). My father has lost about 65 pounds since he started - he'll be 68 in July.

The only "food groups" I stay away from are grains and sugars. I eat plenty of vegetables - particularly cruceriferous ones. Right now, during strawberry season, I indulge in a few berries every evening for dessert (berries and most melons are relatively low carb fruits).

For those who say that low carbers eat fewer calories - that is, in fact, partially true. Dietary fat is a wonderful appetite suppressant, so low carbers tend not to have runaway appetites.

The only other foods I stay away from are transfats - there are no margarines or shortenings in my kitchen.

Maven
If you Freepmail me, I'll show you where to go to see my before and during pictures.

[Indrid Cold]

Yeah, the Atkins diet only came out, what, 25 or 35 years ago? Goodness knows what sort of ill-health symptoms are just around the bend.

[HeadOn]

Well - I've had some kidney problems, and my nephrologist (kidney specialist) has specifically warned me against high protein diets.

One of the measurements they take to check the health of your kidneys is directly related to the waste they filter and remove due to excess proteins. If the content is too high in your blood, it means your kidneys are damaged, or that you are eating too much protein to filter properly and stressing/damaging your kidneys.

One man's doctor's opinion, but it backs up the story...

[Mamzelle]

They don't want to try to prove it. They already know that the American Heart Assoc' "food pyramid", with its requirement of 300-400g of carbs daily, has turned us into a nation of diabetic WHALES.

There is no way to lose weight, and not go hungry, other than lo-carb.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Dear medical professionals, dieticians, and other Cassandras of the "food world".

I, an American citizen, do hereby declare that I no longer care what you have to say about anything, and I will not listen to anything you have to say about anything except to denigrate it.

You are all fools and liars. You cannot keep your stories straight for ten minutes at a time. The actual research you all do could fit on the head of a flea's push-pin. The only actual skill you all have is jumping on the latest fad bandwagon and finding good marketing phrases to promote the latest fad bandwagon.

I'm going to have a nice steak for dinner tonight, with a baked potato, and some corn and some biscuits. I don't care if it is "good" for me or not, in fact I'm inclined to believe that the "worse" it is supposed to be, the "better" it probably really is.

So, to all of you "experts" in "nutrition", do us all a favor and go and jump off of the nearest bridge. You would be doing more for humanity than anything else you could achieve.

Signed,
A former believer in diets.

[ampat]

The Atkins diet started in the 70's. There is no evidence that it kills.

[Bella_Bru]

I grew up in an Italian and Polish home. Italians in italy eat lots of freash veggies, fish, etc., and pasta is nothing more than a tiny sidedish. Italians over here in the U.S. however, eat pasta as the main dish, in huge amounts.

Both my folks have Type II diabetes. Most of my family has high blood pressure, bad cholesterol, and are overweight. A diet of low fat high carb has done nothing helpful at all for them.

I have started on CAD (Carbohydrate Addict's Diet) because I do NOT want to end up like them.

The government can take their sugar industry funded recommendations and shove it. A high carb diet would be ok, maybe, if people actually still did manual labor for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.

[Naspino]

I went on Atkins and immediately started losing weight. Stopped Atkins and immediately started gaining the weight back.

The problem with Atkins for me is finding food without carbs? The LOW FAT craze has replaced protein and fat in EVERYTHING except (some meat) with carbs. I figured out I was eating like 300 carbs grams a day before I went on Atkins.

I don't think it takes a rocket-scientist to realize that Atkins is right and carbs are killing us.

[aruanan]

Fad Diets (Bashing low Carb diets Alert!)

Again, someone who says (Bashing low Carb diets Alert!) is saying "I know next to nothing about nutritional physiology."

[DeSoto]

For Your Information

[mike_9958]

I lost 50lbs just cutting down on carbs. Lay off the bread, cookies, pasta, rice, potatos, etc. Which was typically a mainstay.

CUTTING DOWN - not out. Drink a 1-2 liters a water a day. Take your vitamins.

Exercise to increase your burn rate, and you can eat more carbs - drink more beer. Simple.

Blood pressure dropped, HDL, LDL, everything went into the excellent range. Back problems disappeared, as well as old man aches and pains. Everything gets better - EVERYTHING !

[MaggieMay]

The Seattle Times,Nov 6th published an article that convinced me to try low-carb. The article titled,"In brief study,Atkins diet adherents lose more,their average loss is 18.5 pounds". The basis of the article is a study which enrolled 53 women, ages 31 to 59,for six months. Half followed a low fat approach, eating 30% of calories from fat.The other half ate the diet populized by Atkins. Those in the Atkins group shed on average 18.5 pounds, about 10 of it from body fat.(The rest was water and lean muscle)By comparison, the low fat group lost about 9 pounds,about 5 from body fat.This backs up the Veterans Administrtion Low Carbohydrate Study which was presented a year ago.End of article. I would like to add a book by Michael Eades,"The Low Carb Comfort Food Cookbook",I think it has some good recipies, some of the ingredient's you will have to go to a health food store or natural foods type store to purchase. I bought it through buy.com about 2 months ago, and paid a lower price and no shipping. I have lost 10 pounds and my craving for sugar and wheat.