Atkins Had a heart attack

local radio ^ | April 25, 2001 | Magnus Mat

[MagnusMat]

Just heard that Atkins had aheart attack this morning

[linn37]

I've lost over 50,but I did modify it and cut back on the fat.I just stay low on the carbs.

[homeschool mama]

The only overweight folks in my clan follow a very American way of eating. Those who have kept to the 'old world' plan aren't overweight. Of course, exercise helps tremendously. I walk 2 miles every other day and stretch extensively on the off days. My daughter is in basketball and track (mid distance) so that keeps me hopping too. :o)

[HELLRAISER II]

It's been a while since I've done any deadlifting, I imagine it would be somewhere in the 500lbs. Now my squats (and I mean a real full squat) is 475.

[ppaul]

Everyone I knew on the Atkins diet had their bad cholesterol and triglycerides skyrocket while on it.

You are perpetrating an urban legend.
My levels all went down to where they should be.
Every doctor I have talked to thinks the diet is great.
Most of the physicians in Seattle's Swedish Hospital emergency surgery unit are purportedly on the diet.
For many folks, it is the ONLY way they have ever been able to lose weight - and keep it off.
Before you knock it, read the book.

[HELLRAISER II]

Post 223 was for a max of course.

[ppaul]

Wazzup?

[ppaul]

I'll never go back to my old way of eating..ever.

Good for you.
Congratulations!

[ppaul]

I just lost 15 pounds in the last 4 weeks, and it is staying off, too!

Congratulations!
See my post #224

[ARepublican]

Also, Atkins states in his book that your cholesterol will initially spike upwards and then will begin to decrease as the diet progresses.

[Revelation 911]

re your #8 - what concerns me with the diet though is the protein overdosing that occurs. Its my understanding as a lay bacon lover and kidney stone sufferer that high levels of protein are hard on kidneys. Can anyone verify that? - I worry, as with any diet, if the causal behavior for the obesity is rectified or will they revert when the diet stops.

Now, as for bacon - canadian, hickory or maple?

[pgkdan]

Thanks...and thanks for defending Dr. Atkins. Before reading his book I thought he was probably just a quack preying on fat ladies with too much time on their hands. Boy was I wrong!

[Reeses]

There is a reason why obesity is low in China and other Asian countries. They eat mostly rice and vegetables and meat is only as a condiment.

The politically incorrect truth is: Asians have are better equipped genetically to survive on a high carb diet. If European Americans survived on rice they would get fat and develop diabetes. Asians have a history of high-density living and have been genetically filtered to survive famines where the only available food was rice. Farming, and the resulting high carb diet, was invented only about 10,000 years ago. For millions of years before that humanoids ate mostly meat and nuts, and small sized wild fruits and vegetables. People with European genes do better on a natural high protein diet.

[hobbes1]

Like to bench 400, at my current bodyweight (that's my new goal. my first goal was 225, then 315.)

T-mag defines Gym demi-god hood as 1.5 times your weight, but GODhood is 2x. that is where I intend to go!

Thanx for the encouragement....

[hobbes1]

if the causal behavior for the obesity is rectified or will they revert when the diet stops.

If you return to your prior eating habits, you will get fatter. You need to reform your eayting habits in general IMHO BEFORE going on the diet, so when you go off, you return to a healthy diet.

[the_doc]

High protein levels are thought to be hard on the kidneys in some cases. But even this is controversial.

Anyway, I would go with the Zone Diet.

[11th Earl of Mar]

I weigh just under 200 lbs. I, too, would like to bench 400 [actually 405 lbs.]. I tried this and failed just before Christmas. But I did get 385 for two reps.

But it just does not look as good as 405.

[hobbes1]

OUTSTANDING!!!!! Congrats!!!!

[HELLRAISER II]

Well considering that I would have to bench almost 600 lbs to double my body weight, I would have to say that you two are kicking @ss as far as I'm concerned!

[Rate_Determining_Step]

I've been avoiding the heavily processed supermarket foods like breakfast cereals, snack items (especially those supermarket pastries, cookies, chips, etc.) and frozen "TV dinner" type foods which are basically more chemical than food.

"TV Dinner!"

[HELLRAISER II]

Hey is that ZZ top?