I dont think the adkins diet is good for you.

[Elana]

One good thing is Adkins has been studied a lot in the last few years, so there are many sources to go

by. You don\'t have to read a book by Adkins. You can do your own research online and get a bunch of different

info, both pro and con.

[belgareth]

Ah, what a concept! Learning about something before deciding on it\'s merits.

[Elana]

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Ah, what a concept! Learning about

something before deciding on it\'s merits.

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Or you can just

starting speaking your mind about something before you have ever learned anything about it. That\'s a popular

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[OCP]

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You dont get what im saying.Most people do the diet and eat alot of fat and

think its heathy,Maybe i just dont understand the adkins but from what i read and all its saying u can eat all the

fat you want and that just doesnt sound to heathy to me.You might loose the weight but u can still die of a heat

attack.I didnt get this from that docter dieing.I was just saying why i thought the adkins was bad.

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Borrow the book from somebody and read the first ten chapters. You\'ll

understand a lot better.

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Ok, another first, I agree with Bel!

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[OCP]

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Ah, what a concept! Learning about something before deciding on it\'s

merits.

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Or you can just starting speaking your mind about

something before you have ever learned anything about it. That\'s a popular option as well.

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Fire, ready,

aim? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[jago25_98]

The eat fat thing was just a marketing ploy imho.

Knowing that sugar matters counts

[PHP 87]

Fat is not bad for you. At least not certain types of fats.
Sugar and carbs with a high-glycemic index

are however, as they will jack up your insulin levels which will cause weight gain and retention.

I started

Atkins in March of 2002 and went from 245+ to 180 by November of 2002

My blood pressure and \"bad\" cholesterol

levels dropped signifigantly within a few months, my energy levels skyrocketed within days, and my sleep

requirements dropped by about 1.5 hours per night almost immediately.

My Brother, who is diabetic, went on Atkins

and no longer requires his diabetic medications.

[Elana]

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I started Atkins in March of 2002 and

went from 245+ to 180 by November of 2002

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That\'s awesome!!!

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[belgareth]

Study Blames Corn Syrup for Rise of Diabetes in US

Thu Apr 22, 3:21 PM ET

By Maggie Fox,

Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corn syrup and other refined foods may be much to blame

for the huge increase in type-2 diabetes in the United States over the past few decades, U.S. researchers said on

Thursday.

A study of nearly 100 years of data on what Americans eat show a huge increase in processed

carbohydrates, especially corn syrup, and a large drop in the amount of fiber from whole grains, fruits and

vegetables.

It parallels a spike in the number of cases of type-2 diabetes, caused by the body\'s increasing

inability to properly metabolize sugars.

\"We are seeing this big jump in the number of calories,\" that

people are eating, Dr. Lee Gross, a family physician at the Inter-Medic Medical Group in North Port, Florida, who

led the study, said in a telephone interview.

\"We tried to break down where are these calories coming from? We

have heard everyone debating is it because of fat, is it because of carbohydrate and it is not really clear,\"

Gross added.

\"This shows the increase in the past 20 years is almost exclusively carbohydrates and certainly

corn syrup consumption has increased dramatically.\"

Gross said he was not \"picking on the corn syrup

industry,\" but added, \"It is hard to ignore the fact that 20 percent of our carbohydrates are coming from corn

syrup -- 10 percent of our total calories.\"

An estimated 16 million Americans have type-2 diabetes, the sixth

leading cause of death overall. And many studies have linked a high intake of refined carbohydrates and other foods

with a high \"glycemic index\" with the development of diabetes.

SPIKES IN INSULIN

Foods with a high

glycemic index cause a spike in insulin production. Many experts agree that, over time, repeatedly eating foods in

this pattern can cause insulin resistance, which in turn leads to diabetes.

Writing in the American Journal of

Clinical Nutrition (news - web sites), Gross and colleagues said they used data from the U.S. Department of

Agriculture (news - web sites) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) to show that people

have eaten about the same amount of carbohydrates a day on average -- 500 grams -- since 1909.

But instead of

whole grains and vegetables, people are getting more and more of those carbs in the form of processed grains and

sugars -- most of all, in corn syrup, they said.

Gross, with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health

and the CDC, found that starting in 1980, people started consuming steadily more calories, with an average increase

in total calories of 500 calories a day.

\"Specifically, 428 calories (nearly 80 percent of the increase in

total energy) came from carbohydrates,\" they wrote.

Gross said people are probably not eating all those 500

calories. Some could be wasted. \"It\'s an estimate. It\'s hard to interpret,\" he said.

But the trend was

clear.

\"During the same period, the prevalence of type-2 diabetes increased by 47 percent and the prevalence

of obesity increased by 80 percent,\" they wrote.


Audrae Erickson, President of the Corn Refiners

Association, called the report misleading.

\"Diabetes rates are rising in many countries around the world that

use little or no high fructose corn syrup in foods and beverages, which supports findings by the Centers for Disease

Control and the American Diabetes Association that the primary causes of diabetes are obesity, advancing age and

heredity,\" she said in a statement.