Subject: Another Point of View -Taken from the Archives

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JoAnn - I appreciate you are genuinely concerned. And want what is best. You

do not however know what is best for everyone on this matter. You absolutely

are able to know what is best for you. The Atkins Center does provide many

(outrageously expensive) goodies, which Dr. Atkins himself strongly suggests you

limit for health reasons, did not encourage. However, the center offers them to

remain competitive with the other diet industries, and with the idea that eating

junk low carb is better than eating " regular " junk food. Dr. Atkins did not

suggest eating much if any of that. In his books stresses whole non-processed

foods, over and over. Sugar alcohols are absolutely not a necessary part of

low-carb or of atkins. Neither is high protein consumption. I have read

article after article showing that low fat diets cause you to burn your body's

muscle - including heart. I think much research proves what it starts out

believing, what it sets out to prove. Eating a healthy atkins diets, whole,

unprocessed foods with plenty of raw veggies - when you eat the amount of raw

veggies you are supposed to there simply isn't much room for any junk low carb

food even if you didn't think it was healthy -

when you eat right on atkins, you do not burn protein. You do need to

eat enough protein, which doesn't have to come from meat - or you will

burn your own muscle. You also need the balanced diet. But the body does turn

fat into energy. Traditional nutritionists believe that the glucose metabolism

pathway is the favored one. Dr. atkins did not believe that, showed the health

of many peoples, not just ancient, but also contemporary folks eating diets

keeping them in ketosis and having a high state of health. He believed we all

develop glucose metabolism by default because that is the diet we are brought up

on. If you give someone a diet without processed carbs, with complex veggies,

enough

healthy oils and protein, they naturally develop alternate metabolic pathway.

I'm not going to try to discuss this further. You clearly feel strongly about

this from your experience with your daughter - who was not eating a healthy

diet. But to throw out atkins becuase of those who eat low-carb junk food is

like throwing out ephedrine becuase of those who misuse it. There are healthy

and unhealthy ways to use any path or tradition or substance. Sometimes what is

healthy for one is not for another. I think we have to agree to disagree on

this one. Joy

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JoAnn Guest

Friday, January 23, 2004 7:43 PM

Re: Another Point of View

-Taken from the Archives