Low-carb diet gets more support from new analysis

I wish I was 23 again and knew everything

Very funny

Read the science, people. I read books on nutrition in my spare time just because I find it interesting...high protein diets & people's misconceptions of what protein is, what it does in the body & how much we actually need...don't even get me started! Ahhh! :laugh: Night guys

Low-carb diets ALWAYS fail in the LONG run...ALWAYS! Who eats low carb until they die? You'd want to be crazy to deprive yourself of your bodies natural brain fuel (every cell in the human brain runs on glucose!). I just don't get it. There is so much info out there on how detrimental these low carb bull**** diets are for your health. And the reason they lead to weight loss are actually terrifying when you look into the science behind it! It may have short term benefits, but seriously, who is going to limit FRUIT, bread, pasta etc etc for the rest of their entire lives?


NOBODY. Or crazy people, of course. :laugh:

I've read a lot of books and watched a lot of documentaries in which it was stated he DID die of a heart attack and was very unhealthy before he died, & also that he was grossly overweight...I recall quotations by doctors Neil Barnard & John McDougall, whose work I admire greatly.

But here is the truth: my husband's medical records have been reviewed by knowledgeable doctors and his medical condition discussed with cardiac specialists. It is clear that Dr. Atkins developed a condition called cardiomyopathy approximately three years prior to his death. It is also true that when Robert developed cardiomyopathy his coronary arteries showed only minimal and clinically insignificant signs of coronary artery disease, consistent with what would be expected in a 69-year old man. Cardiomyopathy is a serious and progressive condition and was, I have been told, in Robert's case, caused by a viral infection. Though this condition significantly weakened his heart, its cause was clearly related to an infection and not his diet.

It is also clear that my husband's death resulted from a serious head injury that occurred April 8th, 2003. Hospital records obviously and unequivocally detail the unfortunate clinical course that transpired following arrival of Emergency Medical Services through the entirety of hospitalization, confirming that after losing consciousness en route to the hospital, Robert's condition failed to improve despite emergency neurosurgical treatment for bleeding within his head. In life, Dr. Atkins was adamant about not wanting life support and when his wishes were honored, and ventilator life support was withdrawn on April 17th, he passed away as has been widely reported in the media.

It works for everyone, in the short term, but works for NOBODY in the long term, that is my point. Find me a healthy, thin, fit person who has been eating low-carb for 50+ years and I'll take that back, but I've never heard of anybody succeeding long-term on low carb nor spoken with one online.

If you read any of the low-carb diets, they're not ultra restrictive for life... You start very very low and gradually add them back in until you find a balance that is right -for you- understanding that people will have different thresholds that will help them maintain long term.

Very few people even attempt to go ultra-low for life. The reason there are so many failure stories on Atkins isn't because it doesnt work, its because people reach their goal and ignore the rest of the diet... The point isnt to treat the plan like a diet pill to be disgarded when you're done, but to find a balance between carbs and protein that will allow you to maintain long term and to stick with it. It can be done, and is done by a lot of people.

i have always been a fan of the Atkins diet, ever since i first tried it back when Sky started selling the Atkins answer pack around 5 or 6 years ago. i totally bought into the philosophy behind it and it works!

i had so much negativity from anyone who heard i was doing it, oh that is so unhealthy... etc, i would always challenge them to tell me what was unhealthy about anything i was eating, and asked them what they based their opinion upon, usually it was scare mongering in the press

i am always sceptical when i see reports which are anti low carb, the press is full of propaganda from other affiliates, those whose diets follow low fat low calorie regimes. BUT, what i find really interesting is, those mainstream diets like sw and ww, now both have plans that follow a low carb regime if you want to, the sw red days etc and ww simply filling or filling and healthy as it is now called are pale imitations of the old Atkins plan, though they do have carbs but limit them to jacket potato and brown rice & pasta.

Dr Atkins book explained that triglycerides and lipids would improve on the plan and also blood pressure cholesterol etc so its not really new, just nice that other studies are at least coming on board..

HA. Dr Atkins died of a massive heart attack & was morbidly obese when he died, after following his own plan.

No Dr Atkins died when he slipped on an icy sidewalk and hit his head on the pavement.

Yeah, it obviously doesn't work for anyone long term.

Look at this wonderful woman who has been on Atkins for over 10 YEARS

http://www.sugarfreesheila.com/

Please be quiet, you don't have the slightest clue as to what you are talking about.

Low-carb diets ALWAYS fail in the LONG run...ALWAYS! Who eats low carb until they die? You'd want to be crazy to deprive yourself of your bodies natural brain fuel (every cell in the human brain runs on glucose!). I just don't get it. There is so much info out there on how detrimental these low carb bull**** diets are for your health. And the reason they lead to weight loss are actually terrifying when you look into the science behind it! It may have short term benefits, but seriously, who is going to limit FRUIT, bread, pasta etc etc for the rest of their entire lives?


NOBODY. Or crazy people, of course. :laugh:

Using any kind of absolute just makes you sound ignorant. (Absolutes are never, always, nobody, etc. Just realized you might not know that). Just because you don't get something doesn't mean it's wrong.. Maybe you haven't done any research on it and that's why you don't get it. If it doesn't work for you, that's fine, but it obviously works for others. You seem very uninformed. Here's some of the reasons why it may work~

--Stops the cravings cycle from eating sugar and other refined carbs, (ie, controls binge eating)
--Stops cravings so you eat less overall; just anotehr form of calorie reduction
--More protein leaves you fuller, so you eat less calories overall.
--More fat leaves you full and satiated, so you eat less calories overall.

I think most diets would say that cutting out sugar is a good step. Guess what? Sugar is a carb.

It works for everyone, in the short term, but works for NOBODY in the long term, that is my point. Find me a healthy, thin, fit person who has been eating low-carb for 50+ years and I'll take that back, but I've never heard of anybody succeeding long-term on low carb nor spoken with one online.

Low carbing works. There's not doubt about it. But so does calorie deficit. Personally I like ice cream, pie, rice, bread, etc. and low carbing would only work for me if I was doing a contest. So that stretch would only be about 6-10 weeks. After that, I eat pizza.
Some people can do it fine, however many of the clients I have have at one time or another tried low carb, and just had the weight return once they ate them again.

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The authors note a downside to the low-carb diet: It appears to raise some risk factors for heart disease.

Experts had different responses to the findings.

George Bray, an obesity researcher at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge who has also studied this topic and who wrote the accompanying editorial in JAMA, says that other studies "show that you can do well on any diet as long as you stick to it. Adherence is the major key for weight loss and maintenance. There is no magic in any diet."

Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University, says longer studies conducted among people in their own environments, not with such controlled meals, have shown "little difference in weight loss and maintenance between one kind of diet and another." More research is needed to show that interesting results like these are applicable in real life, she says.

"In the meantime, if you want to lose weight, eat less."

i have always been a fan of the Atkins diet, ever since i first tried it back when Sky started selling the Atkins answer pack around 5 or 6 years ago. i totally bought into the philosophy behind it and it works!

i had so much negativity from anyone who heard i was doing it, oh that is so unhealthy... etc, i would always challenge them to tell me what was unhealthy about anything i was eating, and asked them what they based their opinion upon, usually it was scare mongering in the press

i am always sceptical when i see reports which are anti low carb, the press is full of propaganda from other affiliates, those whose diets follow low fat low calorie regimes. BUT, what i find really interesting is, those mainstream diets like sw and ww, now both have plans that follow a low carb regime if you want to, the sw red days etc and ww simply filling or filling and healthy as it is now called are pale imitations of the old Atkins plan, though they do have carbs but limit them to jacket potato and brown rice & pasta.

Dr Atkins book explained that triglycerides and lipids would improve on the plan and also blood pressure cholesterol etc so its not really new, just nice that other studies are at least coming on board..

HA. Dr Atkins died of a massive heart attack & was morbidly obese when he died, after following his own plan.