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People and doctors are always talking about how there are no clinical studies done proving the Atkins plan is or isn't good. Why? Doctors will huff and puff about cholesterol and fat and how that Atkins will kill you. It has been out since the 70's, so if it's killing so many or is so deadly why is no one testing it? If it had been studied we would have found out that all this "crap" being shoved at us by all these ivory tower institutions are mostly false. If all this low fat craze is good for us why are two thirds of Americans overwieght? We have been on a low fat diet for twenty years. The skinny people are those seniors who are 60 and 70 years old who have eaten bacon and eggs for breakfast since they were two years old. Think about it.
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I disagree with the author. The author assumes that the lowfat diet has had clinical testing and is better than diets such as atkins. Nothing could be furthur from the truth. The need to limit sugar and hydronated fat from the diet makes sense.It doesn't make sense to limit fat in meat and fish etc. If and when a clinical test is done against the atkins diet proving it as unhealthy then I will listen. Quoting biased health experts who don't know the facts is boring. Our bodies need fat also and it doesn't make us fat faster. Sugar and hydrogenated fat does.
I agree! I found this on a website http://www.lowcarb.ca/tips/tips011.html
But, isn't ketosis dangerous?
Being in ketosis by following a low carbohydrate diet is NOT dangerous. The human body was designed to use ketones very efficiently as fuel in the absence of glucose. However, the word ketosis is often confused with a similar word, ketoacidosis.
Ketoacidosis is a dangerous condition for diabetics, and the main element is ACID not ketones. The blood pH becomes dangerously acidic because of an extremely high blood SUGAR level (the diabetic has no insulin, or doesn't respond to insulin .... so blood sugar rises ... ketones are produced by the body to provide the fuel necessary for life, since the cells can't use the sugar). It's the high blood sugar, and the acid condition that is so dangerous. Ketones just happen to be a part of the picture, and are a RESULT of the condition, not the CAUSE. Diabetics can safely follow a ketogenic diet to lose fat weight ... but they must be closely monitored by their health care provider, and blood sugars need to be kept low, and stable.
Actually I have tried everything and Atkins is the only diet that really has worked for me, I take a multi vitamin everyday and eat plenty of salads.
Low-fat diets have many more tests than the Atkins diet has. Furthermore low-fat diets have tests that run over long periods of time (12 to 20 years, not just 1 year or 6 months tests that Atkins touts). Also take that fact that you can REVERSE atherolscrolsis in a low fat diet. What can you do with a high fat diet?? Build more atherolscrosis! You may feel great now, but what happens when you follow the diet 20 plus years and start having heart attacks, kidney failure, diabetes (caused by high fat diets, NOT by high sugar diets)
Maybe you should reevaluate your information aboution about animal fat and sugar.