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Did you know that over 60% of US adults are overweight or obese in some manner? If you are among them, or you just want to drop a few pounds to fit into that new bikini that you bought, then the Atkins diet is right for you. This diet has been proved successful by Dr. Atkins himself. Over ten-thousand people have been successfully treated using the methods that I will explain later in the Instructible.
According to Wikipedia:
The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known low-carbohydrate diet. It was adapted by Dr. Robert Atkins in the 1960s from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association and utilized to resolve his own overweight condition following medical school and graduate medical training. After successfully treating over ten thousand patients, he popularized the Atkins diet in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Atkins updated some of his ideas, but remained faithful to the original concepts.
I personally have lost over twenty pounds from this amazing program (Went from 185 to 163), and I can testify that everything explained from here is extremely effective, and will work wonders if you use it correctly. If you are still interested in losing weight, read on.
According to Wikipedia:
The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known low-carbohydrate diet. It was adapted by Dr. Robert Atkins in the 1960s from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association and utilized to resolve his own overweight condition following medical school and graduate medical training. After successfully treating over ten thousand patients, he popularized the Atkins diet in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Atkins updated some of his ideas, but remained faithful to the original concepts.
I personally have lost over twenty pounds from this amazing program (Went from 185 to 163), and I can testify that everything explained from here is extremely effective, and will work wonders if you use it correctly. If you are still interested in losing weight, read on.
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Signing UpStep 1How the Atkins Diet works
Right now you are probably like most other consumers following the standard food pyramid, consisting of some variation of the five basic food groups.
Chances are you do not follow the USDA recommendation to the letter, but you get by eating 2-3 servings of dairy, 2-4 servings of fruit, and 6-11 servings of grains
The key to the Atkins diet is this: if you cut off carbohydrate intake (from flour, sugar, and high-fructose corn syrup), then the body will alter its metabolism to burn stored fat instead of the fast-burning quick-energy from carbs.
This is achieved by halting your intake of bread, sugar, juice, anything with carbohydrates in it. This causes your body to enter a state of ketosis. when your body is in ketosis, it burns the fat that it has stored for energy in the past. By continuing to restrict carbs, your body keeps burning fat, and you lose weight until you gradually add carbs back in to your diet to stabilize the effect. The carbohydrate content of a food can be found on its nutrition facts.
Before anyone asks, it is not dangerous to live without consuming carbohydrates. This is explained very well in an article that I have linked to previously in this step, and in Dr. Atkins' book. I highly suggest it, it is a really good read.
Chances are you do not follow the USDA recommendation to the letter, but you get by eating 2-3 servings of dairy, 2-4 servings of fruit, and 6-11 servings of grains
The key to the Atkins diet is this: if you cut off carbohydrate intake (from flour, sugar, and high-fructose corn syrup), then the body will alter its metabolism to burn stored fat instead of the fast-burning quick-energy from carbs.
This is achieved by halting your intake of bread, sugar, juice, anything with carbohydrates in it. This causes your body to enter a state of ketosis. when your body is in ketosis, it burns the fat that it has stored for energy in the past. By continuing to restrict carbs, your body keeps burning fat, and you lose weight until you gradually add carbs back in to your diet to stabilize the effect. The carbohydrate content of a food can be found on its nutrition facts.
Before anyone asks, it is not dangerous to live without consuming carbohydrates. This is explained very well in an article that I have linked to previously in this step, and in Dr. Atkins' book. I highly suggest it, it is a really good read.
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Don't forget Dr Atkins died overweight with heart failure....
"... consuming less calories."? You clearly aren't familiar with the Atkins program.
Snopes account of Atkins death does not support your speculation.
My cousin was pretty big during his wedding and he started eating right and he is back to his high school size, and me and my brother we bounce around eating right and splurging every now and then, but for the most part for us it works.
The Atkins diet is proven to help you lose weight, yes, only it is shed drastically due to the body's metabolism being pushed into ketosis, which is the physiological state the body typically enters during chronic starvation. What about the bad breath, tiredness, weakness, dizziness, insomnia, constipation, nausea, and other side effects of the body in a state of ketosis? Or the serious nutritional deficiencies when following this diet?
- "[The] poor intakes of bone-building calcium (found in dairy products) may increase the risk of osteoporosis, while poor intakes of antioxidant nutrients (found in fruit and veg) have been linked with a host of health problems ranging from heart disease and cancer to premature ageing and cataracts. Some experts are also worried that high intakes of protein may cause kidney problems or weaken bones." (weightlossresources.co.uk)
Increasing your intake of fatty foods can lead to heart disease (doesn't anyone remember Dr. Atkins himself dying of supposedly unrelated cardiomyopathy?).If carbohydrates are such a threat to losing weight, how is it that Japan and South Korea have the lowest international obesity rate, yet their diets consist primarily of rice?
And what about the more interesting psychological aspects of this diet? Restricting intake of carbohydrates stops the production of seratonin in your brain, the chemical that controls your emotions, thereby putting you in a bad mood. (article)
It's unfortunate that this instructable is promoting a large and insatiable corporation that can ignore the health risks to their customers and shamelessly bulldoze their way to the front of a 2.4 billion dollar industry.
I'll be sure to add some of this information and cite you for it as soon as I edit this Instructible again.
+1 rating and +1 vote.
Eggs rule.
No diet works without exercise, there is no magical solution, there is no miracle pill. Cutting fat from your diet only makes you gain weight, because contrary to the blind misconception, fat in your diet does not make you gain weight. Unresolved carbohydrates do, which are converted into body fat. Eat more than you burn, you gain weight. Fats are a required nutrient to carry carbohydrates in the bloodstream, just as salt is necessary to help maintain your electrolyte levels.
Any diet that declares all fats and salt to be some kind of capital sin is a farce....I'm not saying that the Atkin's fad says such fiction (because I never paid any attention to anything "trendy"), but in general I warn those looking to beware of quack diets. The Atkin's program has been disproven on a general basis though, even linked to a greater potential of high blood pressure and kidney failure...
Just my 2¢
Many champion cyclists will swear by pasta, and they keep fit....Although high in carbs, they burn those carbs off routinely and regularly. Proteins in meat are the building blocks for muscle, but only if actually processed before they (loosely translated) turn into "free carbohydrate radicals", which will convert to body fat. Vegetarianism or Veganism is not healthy by any means, as we homo-sapiens are after all, omnivores. The proof is in our combination of teeth alone. Vegetarianism and veganism is a political choice, not a healthy one.
Generally speaking, incisors are our "dental shears", incisors are our "meat-hooks", and molars are for crushing. These combination of our dental array make clear that we are meant to eat meat-a-saurs and veggie-saurs, as well as eat their diets (no, I don't subscribe to the myth that man and dinosaur lived together, it is pure satire). While I also don't subscribe to the FDA's standard for what makes a healthy diet, it does have some merit based on fact. As has been said for decades now, a proper diet and regular exercise make for a healthy individual.
There is a reason why the japanese don't suffer heart disease like we do. There is a reason why the japanese don't have an epidemic of diabetes (likely because their *cure* is rejected by the FDA and FTC due to it's amazing results in killing Big-Pharmaceuticals' profits). There is a reason why Mexico doesn't have gastro-intestinal cancers like we do, or lung cancers like we do. The typical american diet is as lush and careless as Florida's state-level administration.
Capsiasin can stop the nerve pains from MS and be used as a topical anesthetic, and is slowly being shown to prevent stomach, intestinal, and even lung cancers. Cannabis stops glaucoma dead in it's tracks and is an unprecedented pain-reliever and anti-emetic (and does not make you want to set your prized possessions on fire, contrary to the latest and most laughably-absurd of ONDCP propaganda). Coca is being proven as a safe natural stimulant that is more stable than caffeine and safer for your heart. Common iceberg lettuce is gaining attention as a better substitute for diuretics on prescription, without giving you "the runs", as well as biologically-balanced yogurt. ORANGES ARE A *CURE* FOR SCURVY, BUT DON'T LET THE FDA HEAR YOU SAY THAT, OR YOU'LL BE ARRESTED FOR SELLING DRUGS WITHOUT A LICENSE!......
Might I add that none of the above have resulted in a single death in all of recorded history, nor any bizarre and/or life-threatening side-effects, contrary to the prescription equivalents. This is what your tax dollars and insurance premiums pay for. And no, marijuana hasn't killed a single person in recorded history, nor made them gay or given them AIDS, nor led them to "harder drugs", despite what your favorite aryan propaganda machine has stained your morals or corrupted your common-sense with...
The best heath advice comes from the cultures of other countries that do not have the same epidemic of health problems, because they do not ignore/deny the obvious truths for the sake of a short-term profit. America has been far too corrupt to be believable for at least 15 years or so, so take it from people without something to gain....