Dr. Robert Atkins Dead

[E.G.C.]

Fox News just now reporting.

[metesky]

The Budha say, "Hold perfectly still."

[Mamzelle]

If you look carefully in your Walmart superstore grocery section, there's a brand of locarb ice cream sold in pints. My favorite is choc-almond.

[illumini]

I just lost 30 pounds following the Atkins diet. I don't eat much fried food, but cut out most of the simple carbohydrates, eat lots of good colorful veggies and walk 3.5 miles a day. 50 lbs to go!

I'll go ride the bike and remember Bob Atkins.

[Mamzelle]

RE: beer.

I don't care for it, myself. Tastes like soap. But there's locarb beers out there--think I tried a Mich that had 2.6 grams carbs. Still tasted like soap.

[illumini]

And he did so, in the guise of an expert who knew what was best for the rest of us.

The man was a cardiologist who studied and practiced medicine all his life. Cardiologists spend years in Medical University, followed by 3 years Internal Mecicine residency, & 3-5 year cardiology fellowship before independent medical practice.

Can you even do a brake job?

[Mamzelle]

Looking closely at what I thought was a pretty good three-times-weekly exercise routine, I was dismayed to see that I was burning a whole 150 calories a session. Big deal. At 450 calories a week, maybe I'd lose a pound every two months. Only, I didn't.

Only the diet took it off.

Exercise has benefits--toning, aerobics, flexibility.

But it doesn't do it for weight control.

[Mamzelle]

What an ignorant, cheap shot. Bored, again? Atkins had superb credentials--not only an MD, but a cardio. Four years college, three years med school, one year rotating internship, at least two more years of internal medicine, and finally rotating through a cardiovascular specialty. His wife didn't require his life to stop because he had children.

He spent years trying to get the "powers that be" to run real double-blind studies on the diet. He didn't experiment on his own patients, he treated them. There are a lot of people walking around without diabetes because of Robert Atkins.

[BibChr]

...and whoever else I should ask....

The testimonials have really intrigued me about Atkins. What one book of his should I buy that has the latest word, simple, readable, definitive, on how to do the diet?

Thanks,
Dan

[Illbay]

That wasn't my point. I was really poking fun at the guy to whom I was addressing my post.

Lighten up.

Oh, and I have replaced the shoes and pads on my own automobile, thanks.

I can design a skyscraper. Can you?

Sheesh.

[Illbay]

I'm sure he had impeccable credentials.

But it is absurd for the person to whom I was replying, to say that he "freed us from those who knew more than us," since his main credential is that he knows more than us.

Get it?

[RipSawyer]

"I have been on the diet since December. I can live with it and I have lost 20 pounds. I am 6'4" and 184-lbs. All vitals look good, including cholesterol."

I am about 6'4" barefoot and have not weighed 184 or less since sometime in the sixties, when I did everyone told me I was much too skinny. I am up to around 260 now but I actually think I look best at about 225. Do you have to carry bricks in your pocket when the wind is up?

[RipSawyer]

"It;s worse than that, Jim, everyone who reads this thread will die."

Do you realize you have just caused a panic attack among all the regulars from Democratic Underground who were over here slumming?

[Retrofire]

I think it's called the "New Atkins Revolutions" by Dr. Atkins.

Something to keep in mind...You have to be religious about the diet and NOT cheat even a little bit until your body goes into ketosis.

One of the appeals of other diets is that it's OK to cheat sometimes as long as you make up for it later. Atkins really requires you to avoid carbohydrates until you've gotten well into your weight loss. Cheating can and will kick you out of ketosis very quickly...And then you sort of have to start over.

[RipSawyer]

A typical day for a farmer in the southeast during the early part of the twentieth century went something like this.
Breakfast, ham fried and the fat poured over grits, biscuits cooked with lard, eggs fried in lard, lots of real butter, plenty of coffee.
Dinner, (lunch to you city types) beans and cowpeas cooked with fat pork, biscuits made with lard, more pork, lots of butter, maybe a glass of milk.
Supper, usually not a big meal, maybe just some cornbread crumbled in a glass of buttermilk, maybe some more beans or cowpeas, maybe a slice of pie.
I wasn't here until 1944 but the diet was very similiar when I was a small boy and there were plenty of old- timers around who told me how it was in their youth.
Most of these people were not overweight and did incredible amounts of hard physical labor right on into their fifties and even much longer if they lived that long.

[ko_kyi]

The only book I ever bought was "Atkins for Life" which is the ongoing, maintenance phase of the diet.

I didn't do the induction. I went straight to eating the right amount of carbs to maintain my weight, then I increased my exercise until I lose 2-3 pounds per month.

The low-carb way isn't all that rigid. I only had about 30 lbs to lose. Right now I am 5'5, 146 pounds. I was at about 170 when I started low-carbing.

[CurlyBill]

Well, the thing with me is the fact that I don't have a weight problem. I'm 6'1" and 185... I'm athletic and play ice hockey all the time. The reason I tried Atkins was to see if I could lower my cholesterol. I was at 190 the last time it was checked...

[BibChr]

Yeah, well, I have about 947 pounds to lose, give or take, so maybe I should consider the other.

Dan

[illumini]

No I can't. My hats off to anyone who can design a skyscraper.

[missycocopuffs]

Ah, it is you of M's Cheesecake recipe fame.

You look great, BTW.

[Maven]

What one book of his should I buy that has the latest word, simple, readable, definitive, on how to do the diet?

There are several books to choose from, and not all were written by Atkins:

Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution (aka "DANDR")

Protein Power

Carbohydrate Addicts Diet (aka "CAD")

Dr. Berstein's Diabetes Solution

Maven