Stop kicking Atkin's corpse-Right On Sherri:)

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Well said Sherri! I couldn't have said it better myself:) I agree 100% with

everything you said;) Bottom line, moderation is the key to successful weight

loss. Our bodies need the perfect balance of everything in order to survive. If

you start cutting corners, the outcome may not be the best.

 

Noel

 

 

 

 

 

Message: 7

Sat, 01 May 2004 17:05:26 -0400

Sherri <sherria

Re: Stop kicking Atkin's corpse

 

, ToolPackinMama <laura@l...>

wrote:

 

> Dr. Atkin's methods have been successfully used by huge

> numbers of people to good effect, and I am sure that he

saved/prolonged

> many human lives.

 

Personally, I know very few people who have been successful with

Atkin's

Diet. It's not an eating plan that most people can sustain, and it

does

damaging things to the body in the early stages. Almost every I know

who has tried Atkin's has ended up back with their old eating habits,

and ultimately weighs more than they did before they started the diet.

Apparently we have vastly different sample sets.

 

 

> Meat and salad vegetables is not what makes people fat. It's the

huge

> piles of greasy junk food, and sugary junk food, and starchy junk

food

> that is making people fat and killing people with obesity, and

diseases

> related to poor nutrition. Dr. Atkins proved that.

 

So all the nutritional science that came BEFORE Atkins that said junk

food was responsible for obesity is irrelevant because Atkin's didn't

say it? Atkins didn't prove this at all. This was widely known well

before his plan was hatched.

 

 

> When obesity in the USA is such a horrifying epidemic and national

> shame, I think it's very wrongheaded, and just plain mean, to

discourage

> obese omnivores from trying Dr. Atkin's diet.

 

Personally, I think it's cruel to encourage people to try something

that

has (imx) little chance of long term success and potentially damaging

side effects. I think the sensible thing to do is to encourage them to

learn a little basic nutrition and/or see a RD to develop a *healthy*

eating plan that they can actually live with, based on sound

nutritional

science not how much profit can be made from selling

books/supplements/etc.

 

Carbs are not evil. Bad carb choices are a part of the problem, but

certainly not all of it. Fat content in foods, huge portion sizes, and

unbalanced eating habits all contribute to the problems in American

dietary health.

 

Just mnsho, of course. YMMV.

 

--

Sherri

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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