Atkins Age-Defying Diet Revolu

Once again Dr. Atkins has forged ahead and set the standard for lifestyle enhancement. Those of you who suffer from unstable blood sugar, and ailments that stem from it must read this book. As a life long suffer of hypoglycemia this program has literally saved my life, plus letting me drop pounds easily and keep them off for years. This new book only adds to his plan, by describing how, through supplementation, to improve your life. His approach is intelligent and well researched, and you come away from reading his books like you read a fun to read medical text rather than some breezy, pie-in-the-sky (no pun intended) diet plan.

Tried this and Protien Power. Both bad. This book was a terrible waste of money and I am glad that I stopped doing it before I got sick. The other was no better. I dont know what the hype is about. You lose weight for a couple of days, tell everybody, then you feel sick all of the time. By then, everyone else has told everyone and on it goes. Then by the time you go off it, theyve told everybody. Mad at myself for believing it.

I must say that anyone, who has tried this diet and failed, did so because thay didnt follow it correctly. I have been using the plan from Atkins other book New Diet Rev. and have lost 50 pounds in three and a half months. This new book teaches about healthy herbal supplements that further increase energy and well being. If you are a person who has tried one of the propaganda diets from someone who adheres to what everyone else says, then try this one. At least it comes from a man who is brave enough to go against the establishment, which I must say has failed to help anyone be happy eating lettuce or to lose weight, and show his plan which is backed up by researchable medical facts to the world .

Dr. Atkins newest book is a must read for anyone truly concerned about their health. He clearly proves that we have been repeatedly lied to by the powers that be and very few of us even realize that fact. Dr. Atkins work will, without a doubt, change the way we not only eat but also they way we view the traditional medical establishment.

Dr. Atkins promotes an extremely unhealthy diet that will forestall aging only by killing you first. High-protein, high-fat diets like his have been proven over and over again to be dangerous. Dont be fooled. I give it one star only because the system wont let me give it zero.

The description on the back cover says An abridgement of Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, which would leave one to believe that it is a condensed version of the book.. but it is not. If you are looking for a taped version of the Low Carb Diet that is covered in the book.. forget it. My husband is not a reader, and I felt that he would benefit from understanding the diet that he is on by listening to the tapes. I wanted him not only to follow the diet, which DOES work, but also to understand WHY it works. This mainly talks about vitamins, hormones, heart problems, etc. Sorry, no stars from me. BUT the book is excellent, and the diet does work.

Last fall I successfully lost 20 lbs on the Atkins diet - and changed my eating and nutrition habits entirely. Six months into low carb life I have lots of energy and feel good in general. As an added bonus, my husband tried the diet with me to help me with the menus - he dropped 43 lbs and lowered his cholesterol and blood pressure. My goodness. This book came just at the right time when the long term nutrition questions about how to go forward and feel healthy needed answering. Just finished reading this book, and much of the advice has appeal. I find it extremely useful as a guideline for the nutritional supplements that should be part of the daily regimen. I suppose Ill have to make an effort to include kale and spinach in our eating more regularly. We have recommended the diet book to many friends - and everyone who followed the rules lost weight and felt good. Am now sending this book to those good friends and family.

Dr. Atkins is on to something. Ive have benefited from the diet, feel well and lost weight.....but I am a type O blood type and I am supposed to eat a high protein diet. The good doctor and any one who has not benifited from his diet plan should check in to the theory of eating right for your blood type. I think this would augment the study of weight loss and be beneficial to everyone. There are books written on this subject. The studies have been around for 20 years or more and just now becoming available in print.

heard stories of people losing lots of weight on this diet, and then one day I started doing some research, on USENET. I expected to find a large group of people complaining that they couldnt lose weight, but instead found people who had been very successful at losing weight. If they can do it, I can do it.

I also figured that there were many times in my life that I ate a very bad diet, such as pizza 7 days a week. How could this be any worse than that

The complaints that people had while on the diet were fairly minor. For each bad side effect however, they offered solutions, such as taking calcium supplements and fiber supplements. By following their recommendations, I had no problem on the diet, and was never hungry. I did feel sick sometimes when I broke down and cheated on the diet.

When I talk to friends, they go on about how unhealthy the diet is (suddenly everyones a nutritionist). but in all the research I have done, I have been unable to find any references to any studies that showed it to be unhealthy. Doctors and nutritionists claim it is not healthy, but have no proof.

I went straight to the experts on this one. I spoke to people who had tried the diet and succeeded at it. usually people who fail either do it wrong, or give up after a week. It took me about 3 months to lose the weight but it is now gone.

Ignore the journalists, and ignore anyone who did the diet for only a week, and ignore doctors who have no experience with it. Get your advice from people that have done the diet for a few months. There are a lot of them out there.

Essential information for anyone interested in the effect of diet and nutrient supplementation on the process of aging. The aging process is not pre-ordained. We have the ability to reduce our susceptibility to many diseases commonly associated with old age by changing a few of our habits now. Profound stuff. I dont know about you, but if a few diet and lifestyle changes can held me avoid diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etcetera, Id want to know what they are, so that I could make the choice to make those changes now.

For someone who was brought up believing that the way to dietary health and happiness was to avoid red meat, eggs, butter and saturated fats, and to load up on complex carbohydrates and use margarine, Dr. Atkins ideas are indeed a revolution. In an incisive and extremely confident style, Dr. Atkins sets out what he believes are the components of a healthy diet for those of us past, say, fifty. First, eat foods low in carbohydrates and high in antioxidants (p. 277). These would be especially vegetables like kale, carrots, spinach, broccoli, etc. Second, eat natural fats and oils from butter, meat, fish, eggs, nuts and olive oil, and avoid all trans fats or highly processed fats in general. In fact, avoid highly processed foods of all kinds. Third, supplement your diet with what he calls vitanutrients, i.e., vitamins like A, B, C, E etc. and minerals like zinc, calcium, etc., hormones like DHEA and melatonin, etc., and food supplements like ginseng, ginkgo biloba, etc.

Atkins himself is a medical doctor who practices alternative and complementary medicine. He is an enterprise himself with his many best-selling books and his Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine. When I first heard about him and his all protein and vegetable diet some years ago, I figured he was the charlatan author of yet another fad diet, and I ignored his books. This one is the first Ive actually read, and I must say immediately that he is certainly not a charlatan. He is obviously a man who knows as much about diet as anyone could hope to know. Whether he is entirely correct in his ideas is not something I am incapable of assessing. but I am willing to bet he is mostly right. He has had an enormous experience treating patients, and it is encouraging to note that as a medical doctor he tends to write relatively few prescriptions. He even warns of the harm that can come from the use of commonly prescribed medicines and their side effects.

The most important claim he makes about ageing is that it is primarily caused by free radicals and that a diet high in antioxidants can reduce the number of free radicals in our bodies.

His central idea about diet is that it is not fats that are the enemy of health for people in the industrialized world (as we have so long been taught) but carbohydrates, especially highly processed ones. This is indeed a revolutionary idea, or at least it was when it was first expressed some years ago. Fat people are not fat because they eat too much fat. They are fat because they eat too many carbohydrates. When you think about it, especially from the point of view of evolutionary biology it suddenly makes enormous sense. What was it in the prehistory that we humans never had enough of to overindulge on Not meat, and for many cultures, not fat, but carbohydrates. There were no fields of amber grain waiting to be harvested and made into flour and bread. There were no rice patties or acres of potatoes. Humans could fell a mammoth or an elephant seal once in a while and load up on meat and fat until they were sick of it, but there is no way they could have eaten enough wild wheat or barley to get sick of it. The sheer caloric expense of harvesting low-yield natural grains by hand prohibited any overdosing. It wasnt until the rise of agriculture about ten thousand years ago that we ever had enough of a carbohydrate to call it a staple of diet. Consequently, we are to some extent carbohydrate intolerant. This is an idea absent from popular books on nutrition twenty years ago, but a staple of the wisdom today.

I like the way Atkins explains how we came to this delusive state of dietary affairs in the first place, and how that delusion is maintained. The culprits are the mainstream medical establishment and the U.S. government working hand in hand to further the interests of vast agribusiness corporations who want to maintain a high public consumption of trans fats and highly refined carbohydrates. When you think about this, it also makes sense.

I also like how specific Atkins is. He names the foods and the vitanutrients and gives the amounts. He tells you how to work with your doctor (who, alas, may not be up on all the latest information) to put together a program for your specific needs. If nothing else, by reading this book youll know how to ask some tough questions about diet and health that your doctor will have to respond to.

Agreeable too is the sardonic tone he takes with the medical establishment. For example on page 194 we find, ...Vitamin E enhances immunity. This has been a well-known fact among complementary practitioners for years, but perhaps now the information will trickle down to mainstream medicine, where this sort of knowledge is badly needed.

However, although the text is as readable as one would expect a popular book to be, especially with all the unavoidable abbreviations and acronym-filled detail, there is more than a little repetition. Additionally, Atkins and his assisting writer, Sheila Buff, have an annoying (to me) habit of beginning a chapter by telling the reader what theyre going to say, saying it, and then telling the reader what theyve said. On the other hand, that might be good. and anyway, who am I to second guess someone who has reached as many people with his books as has Dr. Atkins

Atkins and Buff are names we will read again and again in the realm of owning our health. They continually come out with books that empower the populace to take their health into their own hands. As they point out, it is unfortunate that we just cant accomplish it solely by eating healthy foods. Our bodies need nutritional supplements. One web site that offers additional documentation to this effect is iHerb. iHerb has always given me good service and great product choices. They have also responded to my queries in a competent, knowledgeable way, often directing me to one of Atkins books. Through them I have been able to act on what Atkins and Buff are promoting - a healthy life.

Atkins and Buff are names we will read again and again in the realm of owning our health. They continually come out with books that empower the populace to take their health into their own hands. As they point out, it is unfortunate that we just cant accomplish it solely by eating healthy foods. Our bodies need nutritional supplements. One web site that offers additional documentation to this effect is iHerb. iHerb has always given me good service and great product choices. They have also responded to my queries in a competent, knowledgeable way, often directing me to one of Atkins books. Through them I have been able to act on what Atkins and Buff are promoting - a healthy life.

I have been researching anti-aging vitamins and herbal supplements for about 3 years and Ive read 14 books on the subject. I subscribe to 3 newsletters and 3 magazines on the topic. This single paperback book summarizes 90pct. of what I learned and provides specific dosing recommendations. It is a huge time saver for people seeking to reduce the effects of aging on their bodies. Using techniques similar to ones in the book, I lost 50 pounds and kept it off for 5 years and cured my recurrent sinusitis, sore joints, and horrible allergies. This stuff works.

Ive been eating health foods and taking nutritional supplements for 40 years due to the advice of my grandmother who had a long and vigorous life and was years ahead of her time. Many well-known scientists, among them Linus Pauling, have written of the devastating health affects caused by diets high in refined flours and sugars.

I had never had to watch my weight until about 5 years ago. I started using a low-fat diet and was exercising (Ive always been active) like a fiend. I had a horrible time keeping my trim figure, and even though I eventually did lose weight, my body fat was higher than it had ever been.

A friend suggested I try the Sugar Busters diet, which I did with great results. Then I found this book and was ecstatic to discover a thoughtful and convincing guide that addressed both my interest in nutritional supplements with my desire to eat a healthy diet, and keep off the fat. I recommend this book highly, and will continue to use it as my dietary bible.

As a side-note. take a look at the difference in sugar content between the regular and low-fat versions of many pre-packaged foods. You may be as amazed, and angered as I was to discover that the food processors are making up for the bland taste of low-fat products by cramming them full of sugar.

Ive been eating health foods and taking nutritional supplements for 40 years due to the advice of my grandmother who had a long and vigorous life and was years ahead of her time. Many well-known scientists, among them Linus Pauling, have written of the devastating health affects caused by diets high in refined flours and sugars.

I had never had to watch my weight until about 5 years ago. I started using a low-fat diet and was exercising (Ive always been active) like a fiend. I had a horrible time keeping my trim figure, and even though I eventually did lose weight, my body fat was higher than it had ever been.

A friend suggested I try the Sugar Busters diet, which I did with great results. Then I found this book and was ecstatic to discover a thoughtful and convincing guide that addressed both my interest in nutritional supplements with my desire to eat a healthy diet, and keep off the fat. I recommend this book highly, and will continue to use it as my dietary bible.

As a side-note. take a look at the difference in sugar content between the regular and low-fat versions of many pre-packaged foods. You may be as amazed, and angered as I was to discover that the food processors are making up for the bland taste of low-fat products by cramming them full of sugar.

Having read Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution and Omega Diet I now feel as if Dr. Atkins is taking back, in a sense, some of his extreme views on things. Sure this is a book about a diet to defy age, but hes certainly showing himself considerably more open to eating fruits (the healthy ones of course) and the idea that not all fats are created equal (Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids concept, touched in extensive detail in the book Omega Diet), which happened to be the two things that bothered me the most about the New Diet Revolution. The book also gives a very detailed account about the role played by all antioxidants (natural and supplements) and vitanutrients needed to defy aging. I have made it my reference book when it comes to eating and living healthily.

Ive had tremendous personal success with the Atkins diet and now live in maintenance mode. I eat fruits, vegetables, whole wheat bread, and low carb snack foods. My weight has been Rock Solid -- I am sold on doing Atkins.

This book is a good addition to your Atkins collection, but you should NOT read it as an introduction to the diet. Read Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution for that. This book focuses on vitamins and minerals and how they affect the aging process. As a result of this book I know what anti-oxidents are and why they are important, I understand the ingredients on vitamin bottles, and I am even MORE against eating sugar than I was before.

This is a good book and I recommend it to anyone interested in general nutrition.

Dr. Atkins (and similar philosophy listed in Radiant Health - Beyond the Zone by another doctor) deserves a huge amount of credit for exposing the carbohydrate poisoning America has endured for the past 30 years. Atkins states his case clearly in a very readable book, I immediately bought vitamin E and gingko biloba after reading this. Be good to yourself and buy this book today.

Dr. Atkins Age-Defeying Diet will empower you to add years to your life...and life to your years.

Dr. Atkins has hit another grand slam of a life-enhancing best-seller with his Age-Defying Diet. By combining the best of both sensible eating (the right combination of health-promoting proteins, carbohydrates and fats) and supplying your body with the best anti-aging nutrients through diet andamp. nutritional supplements, you can enjoy life to the fullest.

Only through providing your body with the proper (essential) nutrients, and by avoiding anti-nutrient substances (fake sugar, white flour andamp. man-made fats) can you live a life free of disease and physical / emotional pain andamp. suffering.

I have recommended Age-Defying Diet to several people. Those that have read it andamp. given me their feedback are all happy they read it.

Waste of Money reviewer doesnt know what he / she is talking about.

Age Defying Diet will empower you andamp. your loved ones to take control of your health, and live a longer, healthier, happier andamp. more productive life.

This book has really opened my eyes about eating well. Weve all heard about the harmful effects of free radicals and the need for anti-oxidants, but many of us dont know exactly why. Atkins explains the science in clear terms. Understanding how and why free radicals damage us and anti-oxidants protect us really motivates people to eat well (at least it does for me).

Of course, no Atkins book would be complete if it didnt advocate a strict reduction of processed carbs. This book is no different in that respect. What is different, however, is that in this book Atkins makes the strongest case yet outlining exactly how and why sugar and refined carbs harm us, not only by making us gain weight, but also by making us age. He explains clearly and his arguments are all well supported (which is typical for him).

Lastly, this book talks extensively about supplements.

The rumors that Atkins is all about bacon and steak is nonsense. You owe it to yourself to read this book and educate yourself about what Atkins really does advocate. Then you can make an informed decision about how you want to eat (and age). Good luck to you all.

It is astonishing to read the slam pieces here about Dr. Atkins so-called obesity and overweight condition at the time of his death. Here are the facts.
* He previously had a heart condition called cardiomyopathy -- a serious disease of the heart muscle which is unrelated to diet.
* He died of a head injury because of an accident falling on slippery ice and not of being overweight.
* His actual weight was 200 pounds when he was admitted to the hospital at the time of his accident. The erroneous reports of him weight 258 lbs was based on his weight at the time of his death. The extra weight was not fat, but an accumulation of body fluids linked to organ failure during his coma.
* His previous reported heart attack was due to a viral infection and not diet related. He spoke openly of his condition on various national news programs.
* The report that was released about him being overweight was leaked to the press by a group named Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which is an ardent opponent of the Atkins diet. In short, they distorted his weight by reporting the weight at the time of death - 258 lbs, and not at the time of his admittance - 200 lbs...an obvious attempt to discredit and distort the facts surrounding Dr. Atkins death.
* A formal complaint has been filed by the Medical Examiner of New York regarding the suspicious leak of this information to the public by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
* The disinformation surrounding Dr.Atkins untimely death is politically driven by the AMA and other detractors of the diet.

Dr. Atkins book, New Diet Revolution has turned the AMA and other nutritional views upside down and has created a furor over the standard edicts of the medical profession. What is not said among the detractors of the Diet is that it is safe and it works. The information contained in this book will not only help you lose weight, it could save your life. The food industry, especially the bread and pasta industry have lost hundreds of millions of dollars because of the low carb revolution. Is it any wonder that this diet is under so much fire Keep an open mind and read the book.

As a side note, ignor the mumbo-jumbo rantings and ravings of the Elixir Diet system. The hatred and mis-information spread by the reviewer is evidence enough that the Elixir system is phony as a three cent penny. Nuff said. The guy hasnt even read the Atkins book. Sheesh.

Once again Dr. Atkins has forged ahead and set the standard for lifestyle enhancement. Those of you who suffer from unstable blood sugar, and ailments that stem from it must read this book. As a life long suffer of hypoglycemia this program has literally saved my life, plus letting me drop pounds easily and keep them off for years. This new book only adds to his plan, by describing how, through supplementation, to improve your life. His approach is intelligent and well researched, and you come away from reading his books like you read a fun to read medical text rather than some breezy, pie-in-the-sky (no pun intended) diet plan.

Dr Atkins has synthesized all off the latest research on nutrition and aging and has put together a up-to-date plan to help extend your life and improve the quality too. This is the best book on the subject since the bestselling classic, Life Extension, by Dirk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, from the late 70s. The difference with Atkins book though, is that he cites a lot of credible research that will become accepted at some point by the medical community. He is ahead of his time as usual. The gist of the book is to tell readers what steps they need to take to promote heart and brain health, mostly through diet and readily available nutritional supplements. He contends that many of the most common diseases can be delayed or avoided by following his regimen. This is an important book, a gift from Dr. Atkins to people interested in their own healthful longevity.

Dump the food pyramid that the American Dietetics Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Cancer Society all implore you to follow for the sake of your health. Take antioxidant supplements (but skip most of the foods that naturally contain these nutrients). Eat a high-protein diet that has received the thumbs-down from major medical and nutrition experts and associations and has been deemed especially dangerous for women, as it depletes the bodys calcium stores. If you believe that Dr. Atkins somehow knows better than all those experts and organizations, heres his latest--a plan to defy aging through eating a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, taking lots of supplements, optimizing your hormones, detoxifying your body through chelation therapy, exercising, and taking brain-boosters like ginkgo biloba. Free radicals, insulin resistance, sugar--these are the reasons we age, get sick, and get fat, insists Atkins, not dietary fat. Eggs are good for you. The cholesterol you eat does not affect the cholesterol in your blood, he says. He scoffs at the unholy alliance among the American Heart Association, American Medical Association, American Diabetes Association, and U.S. government in its many manifestations (FDA, Department of Agriculture, NIH, et al.). One wonders why Atkins thinks all these medical organizations would band together to promote an unhealthy diet and not herald Atkins as a genius if, indeed, he had the answer.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly
The author of Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution argues here that the use of supplements and a change in diet can eliminate many health problems, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke. Most diets focus on reducing the consumption of fat rather than cutting back on sugar. according to Atkins, people should reconsider their intake of both. Along with an explanation of how the body processes chemicals, Atkins examines the negative impact of carbohydrates, explaining that their refining is in reality the greatest unacknowledged cause of death in world history. He discusses the equally damaging impact of free radicals and offers advice on which supplements everyone should be taking, including Vitamin C, Vitamin E and lipoic acid, among others. The actual diet portion of the book is only about 70 pages and does not include a meal-by-meal plan or caloric charts, omissions serious dieters will notice. Instead, Atkins continues to promote the two key principles--everyone, regardless of their weight, must reduce the amount of carbohydrates they consume, and everyone should also eat a variety of antioxidants, primarily from vegetables, fruits and supplements. Atkinss philosophy on taking supplements and eating a range of foods is sound, though other physicians may well question the doses he recommends. Author tour.