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Atkins diet

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Your opinion. You know that Eskimos have lived on this diet for hundreds of years and they're the healthiest group of people on the planet. They eat ALL fats, hardly any veggies.
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Nutritional and Medical degrees make it an educated opinion. Inuit (if you want an Eskimo try the grocery store) diets are not comparable to Atkins. In the absence of supplementation Atkins diet would be virtually devoid of omega-3 FA. Omega-6 FA (typical polyunsaturated fatty acids) are often found in vegetable matter and nuts. Other than flax the best sources of omega-3 are cold water fishes (cod, salmon). Most Atkin adherents are doing BS like eating burgers without the bun . . . that ain't no harp seal and it certainly isn't raw blubber. But hey if you're endorsing raw whale meat and blubber as effective for reducing risk of heart disease I'm with you all the way. Inuit diet and heart disease

Atkins on Larry King live told big fat whoppers like saying heart attacks didn't exist until 1912. Well we didn't invent (Dutch dude I think) the EKG until 1903 so I guess he meant to say we didn't diagnose heart attacks until 1912. That doesn't mean they didn't exist we just said . . . 'yeah I think he's dead.'

Inuits don't eat veggies b/c no veggies grow in snow . . . hmm maybe snow peas but I think that's a misnomer. I don't know typical Inuit lifespans but I know they are productive until death. Then again I think they may practice cultural self-sacrifice where ailing/elderly go out into the wilderness to die. I could be wrong on that one.

Your lifestyle is so dramatically different from Inuit that the comparison lacks utility except to the extent you end consumption of processed foods while increasing your intake of Omega-3 FA but watch out for the mercury loaded fish like tuna.
 
Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Your opinion. You know that Eskimos have lived on this diet for hundreds of years and they're the healthiest group of people on the planet. They eat ALL fats, hardly any veggies.
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Nutritional and Medical degrees make it an educated opinion. Inuit (if you want an Eskimo try the grocery store) diets are not comparable to Atkins. In the absence of supplementation Atkins diet would be virtually devoid of omega-3 FA. Omega-6 FA (typical polyunsaturated fatty acids) are often found in vegetable matter and nuts. Other than flax the best sources of omega-3 are cold water fishes (cod, salmon). Most Atkin adherents are doing BS like eating burgers without the bun . . . that ain't no harp seal and it certainly isn't raw blubber. But hey if you're endorsing raw whale meat and blubber as effective for reducing risk of heart disease I'm with you all the way. Inuit diet and heart disease

Atkins on Larry King live told big fat whoppers like saying heart attacks didn't exist until 1912. Well we didn't invent (Dutch dude I think) the EKG until 1903 so I guess he meant to say we didn't diagnose heart attacks until 1912. That doesn't mean they didn't exist we just said . . . 'yeah I think he's dead.'

Inuits don't eat veggies b/c no veggies grow in snow . . . hmm maybe snow peas but I think that's a misnomer. I don't know typical Inuit lifespans but I know they are productive until death. Then again I think they may practice cultural self-sacrifice where ailing/elderly go out into the wilderness to die. I could be wrong on that one.

Your lifestyle is so dramatically different from Inuit that the comparison lacks utility except to the extent you end consumption of processed foods while increasing your intake of Omega-3 FA but watch out for the mercury loaded fish like tuna.
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A bit smug, aren't we?

It's working for me, I'm healthy, it works.
 
A bit smug, aren't we?

It's working for me, I'm healthy, it works.
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I apologize . . . forgot my manners for a sec. I'm happy you've been successful with the diet but you are an exception not the norm. Atkins is not a good lifestyle. Elements . . . like reducing processed foods and lowering intake of carbs are appropriate for almost everyone. But others . . . such as advocating vitamin/mineral supplements over fruit/veggies and implying his diet controls cholesterol and associated heart disease independent of Omega-3 supplementation are just bad medicine. He would be better served to tell the truth . . . that his diet makes compromises . . . than tell clear falsehoods.

Keep up the good work with your diet and health.
 
I hit ketosis or whatever it is called and lost some decent muscle. It was weird, I feel like I'm a smaller framed person now because of it. My arms and face are both thinner. Although I didn't follow the atkins, I made up my own diet that ended up near atkins (gave up milk, red meats, and white starches mainly). I was eating lots of wheat, veggies and white meat. I lost a lot of weight and stopped caring what I eat because I've kept the weight off. I eat a lot less in general now but sometime soon I plan to start a strict excercising path to bulk up muscle wise.
 
Well, I was interested in the diet, until reading this thread. I need to lose 30 pounds (That would drop me to a fairly lean 190). I've lost 10 pounds just by cutting *down* on the fast food and drinking more water. As soon as my health insurance kicks in, I'm going to go see a doctor and see what he/she says.

 
Originally posted by: minendo
Since you have lower (if any) carbohydrate intake, your body resorts to breaking down muscle for energy.
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Where did you get that from, the body will readily convert fat into ketones, muscle tissue is another step and the body always follows the easiest path...

So, BS...
 
My gf is on the atkins diet. She had very little energy the first couple of weeks but seems to have adjusted well. She has now lost about 8 pounds after a month. I didn't think she needed to lose any weight in the first place, but you know how some women are never happy with thier bodies.
 
Ok, the Atkins diet works, yes, it really does, why?

Actually it's quite simple, by forcing your body to break down the fat and forcing the liver to produce ketones you will increase the energy that needs to be spent (you will burn more calories)...

It's like a two stage effect, first you ingest it, then it has to be converted, both takes energy...

Oh, you will not loose muscle on this diet, carbs are NOT necessary for building muscles, proteins are ( your muscles are made from proteins (AA's)) and the fat is needed to regulate hormones...

So anyone who is into a high carb diet and think that that is good for them (veggies and shiat) forget it, your body readily converts any calories it does not use to saturated fat...

Eating healthily IMO means you get 1/3 good fat 1/3 good protein and 1/3 good slow carbs... every meal should be balanced...
 
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