Atkins Diet news 2007-02

2007-02-17 Diet Soda Gets The Low-Carb Thumbs Up

That may explain why there are some who are so vehemently opposed to drinking diet soda while on a low-carb diet. Ive never really understood this dynamic at all and simply kept smiling while the pounds melted off of me in 2004. As a former Coca-Cola addict which ballooned me up to 410 pounds, I knew I needed an alternative when I started the Atkins diet.

I read your article and totally agree. I dont understand how drinking diet sodas could contribute to a weight gain problem as many articles seem to be saying. Unless people believe that drinking diet sodas allows them to eat more as a substitute for the sugar they are avoiding, I dont see how they can be a negative. If one drinks a certain amount of soda, daily anyway, diet soda can only reduce the overall calories if nothing else is added. "

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2007-02-04 Pipe Dream on the Web

Americans are no strangers to fad dieting. The recent history of diet crazes in this image-obsessed culture mostly revolves around many versions of the famed Atkins diet, which all include severe restrictions of carbohydrates. Most diets of late include severely restricting some food groups while overloading on others. The main other of which we speak, is protein.

Despite this, we keep hearing that we need more protein, which leads us to ask: why has American society progressed from a carbohydrate-concentrated diet to a protein-centered one Jen Wegmann, a Binghamton University health and physical education professor, believes the shift toward protein heavy diets like Atkins, Zone and South Beach is the result of carbohydrate paranoia.

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2007-02-13 Are You Sugar Coating Your Workout: Financial News - Yahoo. Finance

NEW YORK /PRNewswire/ -- Seven out of 10 personal trainers believe that eating less sugar is the most difficult habit for their clients to practice, so its no wonder that more than half of them (53 percent) rate sugar as the most important item for clients to look for on nutrition labels. However, even fitness professionals dont realize that nutrition bars are not all created equal and that some leading brands are packed with sugars. This was according to a recent survey of more than 1,000 fitness professionals covering nutrition and workout topics commissioned by Atkins Advantage and reg; nutrition bars and shakes and conducted by Kelton Research.

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Are You Sugar Coating Your Workout. - NEW YORK /PRNewswire/ -- Seven out of 10 personal trainers believe that eating less sugar is the most difficult habit for their clients to practice, so its no wonder that more than half of them (53 percent) rate sugar as the most important item for clients to look for on nutrition labels.

2007-02-09 The Pulse Outside Online

Turns out the Atkins diet wont, as some critics suggested, kill you. A 20-year study at Harvard found that the proportion of protein to carbs in a diet had no effect on heart health. However, subjects who got their protein from tofu and beans rather than meat dropped their heart-disease risk by 30 percent. The study also found that diets based on foods with a high glycemic index (like white bread and potatoes) doubled heart-attack risk even in low-fat diets. Our advice: Wrap your black beans in a whole-wheat tortilla.

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2007-02-05 This modern life: Never mind the weather, how are your ovaries Magazine The Observer

Whether or not people show inclination towards producing sprogs nowadays, barely a day goes by without them being reminded of their fertility or lack of it. Old and new dangers to their reproductive equipment are highlighted, as are ever more sophisticated ways to employ, preserve, stir, banish or re-pipe their eggs or sperm. A quarter of cigarette packets have bold warnings about sperm, and its said that anything from trans-fats, the Atkins diet, gym workouts and Caesareans to night work, aspirin, marge, plasma screens, porn and the drainpipes may (or may not) lay waste to testicles and ovaries. Meanwhile, anything from fatty acids, prayer, porn, thin waists and frappuccinos to grapes, group therapy, comedy, ginseng and spectacles which filter out the blue spectrum may (or may not) do the opposite.

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2007-02-02 BCNG Portals Page

Even Campbell used the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet to lose 30 pounds in 2003 but, unable to stick to the diet, he regained much of the lost weight the following year. It was Campbells decision to make ActNow BC a separate ministry, however, that had the B. C. New Democrat Party crying foul about fat government. NDP health critic Adrian Dix says that move will cost taxpayers usd. 400,000 a year money that could have been spent on improving peoples health.

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2007-02-28 CarbWire - Kimkins Diet Supporter Takes Issue With Warning Against Low-Fat, Low-Carb Combo

Unfortunately, that answer wasnt good enough for Karen to leave it at that. Instead, she attempted to post another comment to my blog yesterday morning pressing me further about my apparent parodoxical support for a high-fat, low-carb diet approach akin to the Atkins diet (which is how I lost 190 pounds, by the way) vs. my advocacy of the lower-fat, low-carb

My experience with fat intake has been that when you take the carbs out of your diet, you need fat to be your fuel. If you then remove the fat, too, then you are simply not enjoying the physiological (and I would say psychological) benefits that this lifestyle change has to offer you.

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2007-02-26 When facing cancer, keep eye on nutrition

As for diets such as Atkins, Trainor says "definitely not. " "Carbs get a bad rap, but whole grains are rich in phytoestrogens, which act as antioxidants and may lower your risk of cancer," she said.

As a registered dietitian at Vassar Brothers Medical Centers Dyson Center for Cancer Care, Carrie Trainor helps patients adjust their diets while undergoing cancer treatment and during recovery. Even though the type of cancer and treatment affects a persons needs, Trainor discussed some common concerns.

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2007-02-09 A Cardiologists Diet I Dont Think So.

Hee hee. Actually, Laura, if you eat the barbecue and combine it with a solid low-carb plan, then you very well COULD live to be 100 years old because you will be eating the healthiest diet on the planet. Eat those non-starchy and green leafy vegetables as well as low-glycemic fruits like berries and youll see remarkable positive effects on both your weight and health. YOU CAN DO IT.

Even still, she has "resisted" the urge to jump into this way of eating full-fledged. But she does recognize that both me and her sister see our low-carb diets as more than just a way to lose weight, but actually they are "lifestyle transformations. " ABSOLUTELY, Laura, and yet.

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2007-02-20 CarbWire - Book Review: The Diet Detectives Count Down By Charles Stuart Platkin

Before I lost over 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004, I would regularly consume a whole box of Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls in one sitting. I know, I know, that was pretty stupid. But had I known at the time that I would have to shake my fat butt dancing for over hours to keep those calories from turning into stored fat in my blubbery self, then I probably would have thought twice about doing that. Again, the Diet Detective as come to the rescue.

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