atkins diet

[email hidden] (marie) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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i would like to know if the atkins diet is so bad for you then why has
there been so much good publicity for it. many scientists are saying
that is not that bad for your health.

The Adkin's diet works for certain short term reasons but fails for
other long term reasons.

The human body burns sugar for energy and that energy must be obtained
from what the human eats.

This is the body's energy menu:

First Choice: Sugars are used as sugars.

Second Choice: Carbohydrates are next and are readily converted to
sugars by
the body.

Third Choice: Fats are used for energy by various enzymatic routes.

Fourth and Last Choice: Proteins can be converted to sugar type
chemicals and used for energy, but normally this occurs only in
starvation. A body burning protein for energy is like following a
diesel fueled bus where you have to smell the exhaust. It is not
clean and it is not nice.

This is why the Adkin's diet works to cause weight loss. By giving
the body only protein to generate its energy you have cast it into a
starvation situation. The body will use all existing sugar reserves,
then all carbohydrate sources, and then the fat reserves BEFORE the
body will utilize protein for energy. Short term, the human will lose
weight from fat. You have forced the body to do this and keep you
alive.

However, there are long term consequences. All modern medical studies
focus on short term results. With the Adkin's diet you will lose fat
and weight short term. Long term, we have no reliable results.

However, you can predict certain long term results.

The colon will become alkaline and not remain acidic. This promotes
all the colon diseases known to man, including cancer, but it does
take time. Short term, if you do not consume enough vegetables, you
may become constipated from the dense stool produced and may develop
hemorrhoids.

The Adkin's diet can be used to lose weight short term by placing the
body in a psuedo "starvation" situation, but cannot be recommended
long term and cannot be recommended for those who value their health.

DrC PhD.

Long term you don't get as good access to many nutrients that you need in
food typically many of these cancer fighters.
I.E. the diet could be potentially dangerous in the long term as it removes
the nutrients which lower your risk from cancer.
(I've heard it also makes your sweat smell like a melon via ketosis)
Anth

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Quoted message said:

i would like to know if the atkins diet is so bad for you then why has
there been so much good publicity for it. many scientists are saying
that is not that bad for your health.

The Adkin's diet works for certain short term reasons but fails for
other long term reasons.

The human body burns sugar for energy and that energy must be obtained
from what the human eats.

This is the body's energy menu:

First Choice: Sugars are used as sugars.

Second Choice: Carbohydrates are next and are readily converted to
sugars by
the body.

Third Choice: Fats are used for energy by various enzymatic routes.

Fourth and Last Choice: Proteins can be converted to sugar type
chemicals and used for energy, but normally this occurs only in
starvation. A body burning protein for energy is like following a
diesel fueled bus where you have to smell the exhaust. It is not
clean and it is not nice.

This is why the Adkin's diet works to cause weight loss. By giving
the body only protein to generate its energy you have cast it into a
starvation situation. The body will use all existing sugar reserves,
then all carbohydrate sources, and then the fat reserves BEFORE the
body will utilize protein for energy. Short term, the human will lose
weight from fat. You have forced the body to do this and keep you
alive.

However, there are long term consequences. All modern medical studies
focus on short term results. With the Adkin's diet you will lose fat
and weight short term. Long term, we have no reliable results.

However, you can predict certain long term results.

The colon will become alkaline and not remain acidic. This promotes
all the colon diseases known to man, including cancer, but it does
take time. Short term, if you do not consume enough vegetables, you
may become constipated from the dense stool produced and may develop
hemorrhoids.

The Adkin's diet can be used to lose weight short term by placing the
body in a psuedo "starvation" situation, but cannot be recommended
long term and cannot be recommended for those who value their health.

DrC PhD.

Also if you consult a good nutritionalist he/she can sort your diet out to
lose you weight and maintain the weight. This will be a long term effort
rather than gaining the weight again after a few months.
There's also some evidence (from spiders/mice/monkeys) that caloric
restriction can increase lifespan and lower disease risk if done properly.
(google caloric restriction)
Anth

"marie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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i would like to know if the atkins diet is so bad for you then why has
there been so much good publicity for it. many scientists are saying
that is not that bad for your health.

I guess the publicity is probably down to the few 'successful' cases.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=897645&dopt=Abstract
(Good way to home in on information is google atkins diet critique)
Anth

Consider the diets of Eskimos (Inuits)
Mostly Meat, fat as I understand it. Certainly there are long periods of time
where vegetables are scarce due to hardend soil and low temperature.

How are they able to survive if what you are saying is true?

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However, there are long term consequences. All modern medical studies
focus on short term results. With the Adkin's diet you will lose fat
and weight short term. Long term, we have no reliable results.

However, you can predict certain long term results.

The colon will become alkaline and not remain acidic. This promotes
all the colon diseases known to man, including cancer, but it does
take time. Short term, if you do not consume enough vegetables, you
may become constipated from the dense stool produced and may develop
hemorrhoids.

The Adkin's diet can be used to lose weight short term by placing the
body in a psuedo "starvation" situation, but cannot be recommended
long term and cannot be recommended for those who value their health.

DrC PhD.

Hi
Eskimos ingest a large quantity of grasses and other vegetable matter in
their foods.
Anth

"PiedmontBiz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Consider the diets of Eskimos (Inuits)
Mostly Meat, fat as I understand it. Certainly there are long periods of

time

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where vegetables are scarce due to hardend soil and low temperature.

How are they able to survive if what you are saying is true?

Quoted message said:

However, there are long term consequences. All modern medical studies
focus on short term results. With the Adkin's diet you will lose fat
and weight short term. Long term, we have no reliable results.

However, you can predict certain long term results.

The colon will become alkaline and not remain acidic. This promotes
all the colon diseases known to man, including cancer, but it does
take time. Short term, if you do not consume enough vegetables, you
may become constipated from the dense stool produced and may develop
hemorrhoids.

The Adkin's diet can be used to lose weight short term by placing the
body in a psuedo "starvation" situation, but cannot be recommended
long term and cannot be recommended for those who value their health.

DrC PhD.

I agree with much of what you say, doctor C. It does not seem sensible
to have sudden swings in body metabolism by, for example, suddenly
cutting out all carbohydrate. However there are problems arising from
recent changes in the diets of advanced societies, together with the
fact that very few people now do manual work all day long. In my local
supermarket the fast selling bread all contains sugar, and very little
fibre. It is now confectionery rather than food.

In other words, it is sensible to reduce fast carbohydrates as much as
possible but, for example, keep eating fruit like traditional apples
and grapefruit that have not been hybridised to increase their sugar
content, and also green vegetables for their fibre and folate.

Dr Atkins took us in the right direction, but the trouble with all the
best selling diets is that in order to sell they seem to have to be
extreme.

It really is not so difficult. If your diet is optimum for you, then
your blood glucose will not be elevated. If it is elevated then you
need to cut down on the fast carbohydrates. There are companies
practically giving away glucose monitors in the hope that you will buy
their test strips for life. Around (and it is approximate) 5 mmol/L or
90 dl/L fasting plasma glucose is optimal. A raised level of 5.5
mmol/L or 100 dl/L is now considered pre-diabetic. Once you get into
this higher range you are starting to lose control of appetite, and
insulin starts to become less effective. It is then hard work to get
the numbers down again. If you can get and remain in the lower optimal
range you will regain shape without hardly thinking about it.

So, long term, read your fasting plasma glucose weekly until it is
optimal and stable, and throw away the weight scales.

I think the Inuit have been referred to. I don't know how many of them
are still following the traditional lifestyle, but if they are, they
are doing so much physical work every day that their blood glucose
will never go up whatever they eat. Also, if they still wear animal
skin clothing they are living all day in a tropical micro-climate so
they sweat like hell, which is a sure way of maintaining good health.

All we have to do is realise that we are living in a new world where
little physical effort is required of us, but we have food in plenty.
There have been few, if any, examples of societies like ours in
previous history. We have to use the large brains that we have been
provided with, to be a bit sensible about how we look after ourselves.
If we do this we will not pass our bad habits on to the next
generation.

These ideas in relation to health and the incidence of chronic disease
are explored further on my website - http://www.innatehealth.com
(well there's no such thing as a free lecture!)

[email hidden] (drceephd) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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[email hidden] (marie) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

i would like to know if the atkins diet is so bad for you then why has
there been so much good publicity for it. many scientists are saying
that is not that bad for your health.

The Adkin's diet works for certain short term reasons but fails for
other long term reasons.

The human body burns sugar for energy and that energy must be obtained
from what the human eats.

This is the body's energy menu:

First Choice: Sugars are used as sugars.

Second Choice: Carbohydrates are next and are readily converted to
sugars by
the body.

Third Choice: Fats are used for energy by various enzymatic routes.

Fourth and Last Choice: Proteins can be converted to sugar type
chemicals and used for energy, but normally this occurs only in
starvation. A body burning protein for energy is like following a
diesel fueled bus where you have to smell the exhaust. It is not
clean and it is not nice.

This is why the Adkin's diet works to cause weight loss. By giving
the body only protein to generate its energy you have cast it into a
starvation situation. The body will use all existing sugar reserves,
then all carbohydrate sources, and then the fat reserves BEFORE the
body will utilize protein for energy. Short term, the human will lose
weight from fat. You have forced the body to do this and keep you
alive.

However, there are long term consequences. All modern medical studies
focus on short term results. With the Adkin's diet you will lose fat
and weight short term. Long term, we have no reliable results.

However, you can predict certain long term results.

The colon will become alkaline and not remain acidic. This promotes
all the colon diseases known to man, including cancer, but it does
take time. Short term, if you do not consume enough vegetables, you
may become constipated from the dense stool produced and may develop
hemorrhoids.

The Adkin's diet can be used to lose weight short term by placing the
body in a psuedo "starvation" situation, but cannot be recommended
long term and cannot be recommended for those who value their health.

DrC PhD.

[email hidden] (PiedmontBiz) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Consider the diets of Eskimos (Inuits)
Mostly Meat, fat as I understand it. Certainly there are long periods of time
where vegetables are scarce due to hardend soil and low temperature.

How are they able to survive if what you are saying is true?

Simply because you are not fully informed.

The Inuits prepare for the long winter by storing up food just as I
did as a youth on the farm. Part of this is dried berries and
pemican, for example. They also eat the blubber, if available, raw.
The prize part of a Caribou is the stomach and its contents of veggies
which goes to the wife of the hunter.

Keep in mind also that the Inuits are so osteoporitic they were almost
gone by age 25. Ever seen an Eskimo wife smile? ( no teeth )

DrC PhD.