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WHAT'S THIS? Atkins Revises the Diet!
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WHAT'S THIS? Atkins Revises the Diet!
Witchy Way wrote:
| he dies & they do this? if he wanted it changed he would've changed it, | i think. Read the article again. Absolutely nothing has changed in the Atkins plan. The Atkins spokesperson SAID in the article that nothing has changed; that it's just how the Atkins plan is marketed and the public's perception of it. The article is basically the same old ho-hum Atkins bashing with a new twist. Nothing to freak out about. Nothing to see here, folks, keep moving ... Peter |
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WHAT'S THIS? Atkins Revises the Diet!
"Jenny" wrote in message ... Atkins Nutritionals is just doing their usual thing of chasing whatever is the currently bestselling diet and stealing their stuff. I have seen nothing that suggests that AN is anything but a cynical money machine. They changed Atkins advice about sugar alcohols so they could market products with them. I bet they have some "low saturated fat" crap in the works now that uses some cheap frankenfood additive to achieve it's ends. As all of us know who have eaten a high fat,. low carb diet for years, our heart attack risk factors all go down. This is really a kick in the balls to low carb dieting and there is NO justification for it that I have seen anywhere in any research. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. As extreme as you are Jenny, I tend to agree. I read the Atkins book and feel Dr. Atkins way of eating it great, but all these products and the amount of money to be made is too alluring for the current people in command. I certainly don't eat all that crap that they put out and think it will give Atkins a bad name in the end which IMHO is a shame. I follow Atkins advice, but say I am on "low carb" because I can not associate myself with an organization that produces so much crap. Sorry, if people need that stuff to survive on the diet, but I would never eat that stuff. It can not be good. I mean Dr. Atkins even went as far as mentioning nitrate free bacon for goodness sake. Just eating natural foods the way Dr. Atkins wanted at the start. Curt |
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WHAT'S THIS? Atkins Revises the Diet!
"Jenny" wrote in message ... I bet they have some "low saturated fat" crap in the works now that uses some cheap frankenfood additive to achieve it's ends. As all of us know who have eaten a high fat,. low carb diet for years, our heart attack risk factors all go down. This is really a kick in the balls to low carb dieting and there is NO justification for it that I have seen anywhere in any research. LOL. Why not say what you really think? But I agree, there's absolutely no need to eat these made up foods; I have a low carb diet, eat organic foods as much as possible and *no* AN or other weird stuff. I watch weight, body fat, cholesterol, triglicerides, all of which have improved dramatically since I started reduced the carbs but I no longer say I'm on Atkins. |
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WHAT'S THIS? Atkins Revises the Diet!
As all of us know who have eaten a high fat,. low carb diet for years, our
heart attack risk factors all go down. This is really a kick in the balls to low carb dieting and there is NO justification for it that I have seen anywhere in any research. Which is exactly why this new stand on things ****es me off. It's not going to change MY mind about anything, but it might keep others who desperatley need the correct information from getting the real help they need. That's just sad. LCing since 12/01/03- Me- 265/237/140 & hubby- 310/266/180 |
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WHAT'S THIS? Atkins Revises the Diet!
marengo wrote:
Witchy Way wrote: | he dies & they do this? if he wanted it changed he would've changed it, | i think. Read the article again. Absolutely nothing has changed in the Atkins plan. Perhaps you should read it again. A new rule was added. Saturated fats (from red meats, butter, cheese) should not exceed 20% of total calories consumed. Atkins' books doesn't even break down saturated vs. other kinds of fat in there carb counts. They treat fat as fat. "the director of research and education for Atkins Nutritionals, Colette Heimowitz, is telling health professionals in seminars around the country that only 20 percent of a dieter's calories should come from saturated fat." DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) |
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DigitalVinyl wrote:
| Perhaps you should read it again. A new rule was added. Saturated fats | (from red meats, butter, cheese) should not exceed 20% of total | calories consumed. Atkins' books doesn't even break down saturated vs. | other kinds of fat in there carb counts. They treat fat as fat. No, YOU read it again. This is a quote from the article (except for the asterisks): "An Atkins spokesman said Ms. Heimowitz has been giving these seminars for five years, but that *they do not represent a departure from the original premise of the diet.* Atkins representatives say that Dr. Atkins, who died last year, always maintained that people should eat other food besides red meat, but had difficulty getting that message out. *There has been a revision in expressing how the diet should be followed, not in the diet itself,* they say." The point is that anyone following the Atkins plan as descibed in DANDR would not be eating more than 20% of their calories from saturated fat anyway. Beliefs to the contrary have been propulgated by the same old lies, fallacies and misconception that Atkins is a bacon and eggs diet with little else. The Atkins center is merely trying to clarify this. In fact, this is made very clear in the article. I follow the Atkins plan pretty closely and never watch, count, or worry about saturated fat vs unsaturated. Yet when plug my daily meals into Fitday, I find that normally saturated fats are in fact less than 20% of my daily calories. In fact, yesterday I did eat a 4-egg cheese omelet and 4 bacon strips for one of my meals, and my total saturated fat for the day was just 21% of calories for the day! It is much less than this when I don't have this meal. Nothing has changed; it's just being expressed more clearly that Atkins is not a high-saturated fat diet as % of daily calories. It never was, when followed correctly. They have merely quantified this to make it more clear. -- Peter website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo |
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they are revising the diet and puting out all these premade foods. cereal,
pasta, chips etc. They had to wait for him to die NOT from his way of eating but from a fall because I believe he wouldn't promote this. just my 2 cents. deb Revolvers are for people who feel that more than six holes in an assailant is excessive |
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WHAT'S THIS? Atkins Revises the Diet!
On 18 Jan 2004 19:35:56 GMT, (DebsHonda) wrote:
they are revising the diet and puting out all these premade foods. cereal, pasta, chips etc. They had to wait for him to die NOT from his way of eating but from a fall because I believe he wouldn't promote this. All of his mixes, breads, bars, ice cream, etc. were out before he died. And all of the new things were obviously in development before he died. He wasn't a saint, he was a doc who figured out how to market a diet and make a few millions. No one's forcing us to buy it. Cheers, Nina Viva la Capitalism! delicious! evil! calorie free! http://www.theslack.com |
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