Atkins Exposed. Is Atkins Changing From Low Carb to Low GI?
Im really not a big fun of Atkins and their diet. Eating bacon, heavy cream and butter while you are dieting is a joke.
If you lift weights in the gym, you need carbs. PERIOD! But it seems that Atkins diet is changing toward low GI diet.
Atkins has relabeled all of their products using this new methodology
under the new "Net Atkins Count".
Colette Heimowitz, vice president of education and research for Atkins
health & medical information services: "Atkins is the original Low GI approach, and with the first products on
the market with labeling that reflects the actual glycemic impact on the body
a particular food will have. Consumers who are following any dietary program
can utilize the Net Atkins Count labeling to provide them with the numbers
they need to manage their health." Read more...
Let's see what other top nutritionist in the coutry are saying about Atkins Diet.
One of the nation's foremost nutritionists, professor emeritus Fredrick J. Stare, Ph.D. founded Harvard’s Department of Nutrition where he served as chairman for 34 consecutive years.
"The Atkins Diet is nonsense... Any book that recommends unlimited amounts of meat, butter, and eggs, as this one does, in my opinion is dangerous. The author who makes the suggestion is guilty of malpractice."
Please visit http://www.atkinsexposed.org for more info.
If you lift weights in the gym, you need carbs. PERIOD! But it seems that Atkins diet is changing toward low GI diet.
Atkins has relabeled all of their products using this new methodology
under the new "Net Atkins Count".
Colette Heimowitz, vice president of education and research for Atkins
health & medical information services: "Atkins is the original Low GI approach, and with the first products on
the market with labeling that reflects the actual glycemic impact on the body
a particular food will have. Consumers who are following any dietary program
can utilize the Net Atkins Count labeling to provide them with the numbers
they need to manage their health." Read more...
Let's see what other top nutritionist in the coutry are saying about Atkins Diet.
One of the nation's foremost nutritionists, professor emeritus Fredrick J. Stare, Ph.D. founded Harvard’s Department of Nutrition where he served as chairman for 34 consecutive years.
"The Atkins Diet is nonsense... Any book that recommends unlimited amounts of meat, butter, and eggs, as this one does, in my opinion is dangerous. The author who makes the suggestion is guilty of malpractice."
Please visit http://www.atkinsexposed.org for more info.
2 Comments:
I am not a dietary expert, but I have been studying nutrition in relation to my own healthsince 1987.
The Atkins diet may be effective in helping people lose weight. In this case weight loss does not equal health. The Atkins diet of pure protein and animal fats is going to make people sick in the intermediate and long term.
My brothers have followed the Atkins diet and I worry about them.
The better approach is balance and common sense--healthy and natural foods in a balance. I like the approach of Dr. Barry? Sears--The Zone, and Dr. Mercola, who uses metabolic typing and also advocates balanced ratios like Dr. Sears.
-Sumo
www.fitnessequipment-center.com
Good points here. It is always important to look at the research and examine what makes sense. Sometimes you may end up surprised. A lot of research has gone into Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets. Reading that research and learning the mechanisms for their effectiveness can really help to develop a better understanding beyond what may initially seem to make sense.
In an age when research is beginning to show the lack of effectiveness of certain traditional notions of fitness (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/07/AR2006020701681.html), the emerging importance of "healthy" fats, and now well-established decreases in cardiovascular risk and blood risk markers (such as triglycerides) while on low-carbohydrate diets (http://www.ccjm.org/pdffiles/Volek1102.pdf), it is important to critically examine the plethora of new available science before jumping to conclusions which may initially seem to make sense based on what we have always been told.
You have to watch where your information is coming from. You've probably seen a ton of information from high carb advocates which don't cite a lot of evidence (just "high fat is bad"). Conversely, here's an interesting article from a low-carb source (http://www.lowcarbohydrate.net/httblog/archives/000066.html). Biased, of course, but note the difference? Some things just stay the way they are because of complacency or politics. Not to say low-carb is for everyone, but at the very least - something to think about.
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