Re: Atkins on 48 hours

[Guest guest]

---I picked up Atkins Diet Revolution when I went to the market

today. Will start reading it shortly!

I did not see the show unfortunately but sounds as though it was very

informative. You can certainly add more of the content of it

Phyllis, am interested.

Madge

In diabetes@y..., Phyllis <phyllis@t...> wrote:

> If you don't want to hear about Akins and good news then don't read

this

> message.

>

> As I sat eating my very, very high fat and low carb delicious bowl

of

> whipped creme cheese with cocoa, equal and heavy whipping creme and

> enjoying it very much, I watch 48 hours.

>

> As the man on Atkins talked about how he had had a heart attack and

this

> was the last chance to save his life, I cried like a baby. I

thought of

> how for over 20 years I had eaten like the doctors and the ADA told

me

> to eat. And, how I had gotten fatter and fatter and sicker and

sicker. I

> thought of how until Atkins, they had given me a couple of more

years to

> live. I thought of all the people that suffer and have died, because

> their doctors want even investigate what the diet can do.

>

> I thought of how people had put me down for eating this way,

including

> many doctors. I also thought of how much better I was. Of how my

legs

> don't hurt, how my cholesterol is almost normal, my heart is normal

> (after a heart attack), my blood sugar is the best it has ever

been. How

> I weigh 178, instead of 265.

>

> I cried more and more. My family kept looking at me like I was

crazy.

>

> Anyway enough about me and my emotionalism. I thougt it was the

best I

> have seen. Could have been better, but they did show that 30 million

> people are on Atkins and how they are losing weight and lowereing

> cholesterol.

>

> I was surprise that they didn't mention the study going on at Duke,

but

> it may not be over yet. They did have a study at some college,

saying it

> worked and more people were able to stay on it than other diets.

>

> I don't think we could have gotten much better. The AMA and the AHA

will

> be really pissed when they see it. There was alot more to the show

that

> I really enjoyed and if anyone wants a blow by blow I will be glad

to

> tell them about.

>

> Phyllis