As a physician I'm worried about low carb diets

[Guest guest]

Basically I'm starting to become really concerned about the long-term

welfare of those that have chosen the low carb path and I wanted to

share my research with others in hopes that they will continue to

stick to sensible, health-promoting ways to control their weight like

Weight Watchers

Us doctors don't get much nutrition training in medical school. So

when my patients started coming to me on the Atkins Diet, I frankly

didn't know what to tell them. Atkins' recommendations certainly

seemed at odds with what little I was taught. So I decided to try to

figure out the truth for myself.

I pulled all the research I could find on low carb diets over the

last 30 years and put it on a new website I created:

http://www.AtkinsFacts.org

So the next time you or someone else has questions about low carb

diets you can tell them to " get the facts " at AtkinsFacts.org

I hope it's useful for people,

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Greger, M.D.

http://www.AtkinsFacts.org

Sorting Fact from Fad

mhg1@...

185 South St #6

Boston, MA 02130

[Guest guest]

I am sure that I am in the minority here, but frankly I give your " report "

very little credence. You've never posted here before and just popped in to

spout the " evils " of low-carb. Hmmm. How incredibly kind of you.

Many of the " quotes " you give from Dr. Atkins are in actuality misquotes or

taken completely out of context should anyone but me care to do the research.

Secondly, every third line in your so-called report *glorifies* vegetarism. Are

you a vegan ?? Perhaps threatened by the new interest in eating meat the

US has required?? And thirdly, you completely fail to mention that for thirty

years people have not only been losing but maintaining on low-carb diets, with

lower cases of diabetis (many could stop taking their meds for the first time in

their life), lower bad cholesterol and higher good cholesterol and absolutely no

signs of heart disease. Thirty years . Trackable people who are more

than willing to stand up and say they have eaten this way. Why weren't they

interviewed for your so-called report?

Your report contained very little true fact. It neglected to mention the FACT

that over thirty years of " personal testimony " has initiated the AMA *itself* to

take on an extensive FIVE YEAR study because it no longer fully believes that

" low-fat " is the ONLY way to go for everyone. It didn't mention that in the

initial 6 mths on the diet, bad cholestol drops significantly. Diabetics

improve greatly. Where was that in your " study " ? Where was the fact

that since the " low-fat " craze began, that America's obesity rates tripled?

Where is the fact that prior to the 1960's, early 1970's when " low fat " became

all the rage, people regulary ate eggs and bacon for breakfast, that a side of

pasta or rice with the meal was nearly unheard of - it was meat and potatoes or

some other veggie? Are potatoes and veggies carbs? Sure. Are they the

enormous bowl fulls of pastas and rices (aka carbs) that " low-fat " followers

believed in? No. Does Atkins and other " low-carb " programs allow for veggies

and fruits? ABSOLUTELY. After the first two weeks. You can even have 100%

whole wheat bread. Did you read that part of the book, ?

I will agree that calories in, calories out is what determines weightloss.

Does low-carb work for everyone. Absolutely not. Does low-fat work for

everyone? Again, absolutely not. How you get there is not necessarily a factor

if you can maintain the loss. Can you eat carbs and high fat together? No.

Can you eat protein and high fat together? Looks like its possible. Either end

of the spectrum may have its downsides (minimal as they may be), but eating meat

and meat by-products might not be so evil afterall. Not what you vegans like to

hear, is it ?

[Guest guest]

I'm kinda confused why you are sending this to a Weight Watchers group. I'm

not following the atkins diet and I doubt many people are here... however

some may be combing elements from both diets. Did you mean to join a low

carb group and post this to that group?

Unless I've been reading the posts here incorrectly the focus of this group

is not trashing other diets. I quite happily follow the Weight Watchers

plan. A plan that I have found works very well for me. I am not going to go

around and tell others that my path is the path that they should follow nor

am I going to tell them that a diet that a doctor recommended to me (yes I

was told by a doctor to do Atkins or low carb due to my having PCOS) is the

wrong one. I don't do that diet (though i do incorporate elements of it)

because it doesn't fit with my lifestyle at the present time.

Yvonne

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