Luna wrote:

> In article >,
> Dana Carpender > wrote:
>
>
>>Luna wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In article . com>,
>>> "mdginzo" > wrote:
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>>>>>Does it occur to you that some of us actually have *improved* our health
>>>>>eating this way? That some of us really *did* feel like crap eating a
>>>>>carb-heavy diet? I haven't eaten this way for 11 years because it's
>>>>>making me ill, you know. Or do you really believe that I'm totally
>>>>>insincere about this, or actually seriously ill, and in denial?
>>>>
>>>>Oh sure, many have lost weight and many feel better and are healthier.
>>>>That is true of any fad diet. I am just here to do what you won't
>>>>dare to do and that is point out the dangers of this diet. You got a
>>>>problem with that?
>>>
>>>
>>>I'll chime in and say I don't have a problem with it. There are dangers
>>>in nearly every diet, and the main one in the Atkins diet, as with most
>>>others is: Doing It Wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I've asked a few times now how many of the Atkins critics actually *read
>>the book*. Still no takers.
>>
>>Dana
>
>
> I've read one. It was just simpler for my life to just limit my diet to
> vegetables, meat, eggs, cheese, and the occasional piece of fruit,
> rather than counting and measuring everything and making sure I went up
> by 5g each week . . . blah. So I don't technically do Atkins, because I
> still drink coffee, I don't take vitamins, and I don't do the math part.

I never did either. I just stopped eating any concentrated carb foods
-- starches and sweets -- 11 years ago. Always ate lots of veggies, and
reasonable quantities of strawberries and grapefruit and such. Over the
years, I've added back very modest quantities of stuff like low carb
(high fiber) tortillas, and rye flatbreads, etc.

But I have read Atkins, and Protein Power, and The Carbohydrate Addict's
Diet, and Sugar Busters, and Neanderthin, and The Zone, and The Glycemic
Load Diet, and The No-Grain Diet, and The G-Factor Diet, and most of the
other books, and I know the theories behind them, and the differences
and similarities between the programs. And I also am aware of how
common it is for people to stop eating anything but meat, eggs, and
cheese and say "I'm doing Atkins." Or to read Atkins, get as far as
Induction, and figure, "Well, that's how I'll lose weight really, really
fast, so that's what I'll do."

Dana