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Some may disagree, but I think the Atkins diet sucks. I think it says to cut your carbs to like 20 a day for the first week. I totally disagree with this. You can't deplete your body completely from carbs. Focus on good complex carbs and less sugar. Sugar=fat in my book. I have had great success getting cut up and still eating plenty of good carbs. It also says you can eat all the saturated fat you want. This is another thing i totally disagree with. I can't believe that this diet is still looked upon as a good one by many people.
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I completly agree with wrestler! Any diet that requires you to totally eliminate or extremely reduce any part of the pyramid is not healthy. The body uses carbs as fuel, yes your body can run off ketones, but the brain itself does not do well long term on ketones. (kinda ironic that adkins died from a brain injury from his fall).
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When I diet, I do go a low carb route...but I do not take it far enough to reach ketosis.
Overall I've found that low carb/high protien dieting seems to be the most muscle sparing as compared to just simple calorie reduction.
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Hi pokkeyy, just for some controversy in Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution, it states that the brain prefers ketones over glucose for energy.. and of course there was a study supporting this evidence... please don't make me search for the reference!!  LOL
Also, about the sat. fats - the whole mystery behind that is insulin apparently... & of course on Atkins Diet, insulin is not being released into the blood stream, the book says:
1) insulin increases salt and water retention (therefore increasing hypertension)
2) insulin is directly involved in creating atherosclerotic plaques
3) insulin is the primary contributor both to high levels of triglycerides and low levels of the HDL cholesterol (HDL chol. is good, takes plagues away for the arteries)
4) insulin provokes the liver into producing more LDL (bad chol.)
Maybe he's on to something here?? I was watching the news the other day and they did a study on Atkins keto diet. They reported that the diet does in fact decrease LDL's and triglycerides
I swear this is no conspiracy to sell books for atkins!! LOL
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The premise of the atkins diet is fundamentally flawed because it goes against the laws of thermodynamics which state there is a constant flow of energy in otherwords, despite what dr atkins says, Calories do count. It's not just carbohydrate grams
Low carb diets IMO are great on paper and in theory the body works great on them because carbs are "non essential" BUT (and that's one big but!) That's not the be all and end all as whilst carbs are not necessery to the actual function of life in the body they do contribute alot to other areas of health and well being which if taken for granted can be detrimental to ones health.
Atkins also discounted the fact that people are different and have different needs etc
A middleaged housewife has very different needs to an athlete yet he still promotes the fact that you should start at 20g carbs in the intro stages
Atkins diet is marketed as an eat all u can fest of fried eggs, sausages and other foods that are probably too high in sodium, saturated fats and probably trans fats too, far from healthy!
It offers a quick fix solution imo and the initial weight loss is mostly water and glycogen yet because you lose this weight within the first couple of weeks, everyday folk think wow they're losing fat and that's why everyone thinks the atkins diet (low carb diets) are so great when really, imo if you're going to do a low carb diet, you should know exactly what and why you are doing stuff
Just my 2 pence worth
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