BBC Story about Low Carb Dieting – Part 2
Listen to the Lowcarbshow.com weekly podcast podcast.com At lowcarbshow.com our goal is to offer good information to help you lose weight! Vincent Vegan and Marc Sage offer a weekly podcast discussing all of the ongoing things in the diet and weight loss world – we focus mostly on Low Carb and Vegetarianism but we discuss everything – here is something I found on the internet that I thought you guys might enjoy! The world’s most beautiful and famous have swallowed his advice. He wrote one of the biggest selling diet books of all time, and it was based on his extraordinary belief that you could eat as much as you desire and still lose weight. His name was Dr Robert Atkins, author of the Atkins new diet revolution. To some Dr Atkins was a hero, to others his diet was scientific heresy and potentially deadly. In a series of ground breaking experiments Horizon investigates the truth behind the most controversial diet in history. Does the Atkins diet really work and is it dangerous?
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thatgirlfit85 said :
February 18, 2010 at 2:42 pm
I was so confused…it was University of Pennsylvania not Pennsylvania University…which doesn’t exists.
thatgirlfit85 said :
February 18, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I think they were attempting to make it seem more “dramatic” and “entertaining.” I mean…it is documentary about a diet. But I certainly understand your view point and the information would have been just as palatable without the music.
rizgoth said :
February 18, 2010 at 4:26 pm
This didn’t happen to me. I lost 200 lbs by eating low carb and keeping my carbs under 30 grams per day. Once I reached my goal weight I slowly increased my carb intake until I neither gained or lost weight depending on my exercise plan. While on low carb I only had cravings for carbs in the first week, after that I had cravings for roasted chicken, duck, turkey, the list goes on. I currently eat about 90 grams of carbs now, and have maintained a 201 weight for 6 years.
DJAJREMIXX said :
February 18, 2010 at 5:17 pm
This diet was great the 1st time, i went from 96kg to 80kg in 3months, then went off it and ended up 104kgs! not good, expemsive to maintain and u crave normal things like cereal and bread something chronic, but if u can manage to stay very low carb forever, this diet is perfect for keeping the gut away.
HypnoticSubliminals said :
February 18, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Yes, I didn’t understand the music that much either.
DonBwoy said :
February 18, 2010 at 6:39 pm
What stupidity. No one says you can eat limitless food. The point is to not eat carbs and sugar (carbs). Instead of burning carbs when we move around, we burn the fat. Changing your car from cheap carb gas to delicious fatty gas. Add exercise and you will have a perfect body. Atkins is a genius.
agustinromanii said :
February 18, 2010 at 7:18 pm
lipid -hypothesis is false, we need fat
joeylodes said :
February 18, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Did Dr. Atkins amazing diet
was at 305lbs and got down to 195lbs
AND
ALL blood levels … didn’t even get into “normal” range … they got into “OPTIMAL” range
Thank you Dr. Atkins. Always remembered.
xxxRaverxBabyxxx said :
February 18, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Totally correct.
HotKebab said :
February 18, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Atkins was on to something though.
Good fats such as omega 3’s that come from food’s such as salmon, nuts, flax seed oils etc. Have been proven to not only be good for the brain but also help lose weight.
Combine this with fruits and veges which are high in fibre and carbs such as wild rice and green tea along with exercise you would be very healthy. People are thinking in reverse.
Eat healthy to lose weight not the other way around.
I could go on but I’m running out of words.
bundleHastings said :
February 18, 2010 at 8:51 pm
What is with the ’spooky’ music all through this programme? It gives it the atmosphere of a ghost story. I hate this attempt to manipulate our emotions. Just give us the facts please!
bundleHastings said :
February 18, 2010 at 9:01 pm
rk9295 I think your findings are correct. There is less money to be made from selling us proteins.
And don’t forget the massive profits being made from weight loss surgery, which is now being offered to just about anyone. My doc even offered it to me on the NHS!
rk9295 said :
February 18, 2010 at 9:51 pm
The more research I do on my own, the more I’m convinced we were told to eat carbohydrates on purpose by the government.
Food companies make money off of us because carbs are so addicting. They knew it would fatten us up and cause health problems.
Doctor’s could then prescribe us medications that we would have to take for the rest of our lives.
Fitness companies could then make products that would claim to cure our fatness, everything from machines to protein bars.
Carbs are a scam.
luv2singk said :
February 18, 2010 at 10:09 pm
The Atkins diet is working!!! I like it.
grantsinmypants2 said :
February 18, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Atkins never said that calories could “go missing.” He just said that once you reorient your body to run primarily on fat instead of carbs, many of the calories pass right through you.
Goinglite said :
February 18, 2010 at 11:13 pm
What’s important to remember is that Insulin regulates fat storage, not calories.
Goinglite said :
February 18, 2010 at 11:40 pm
What “simple unprocessed” foods are you referring to?
Oreceo said :
February 18, 2010 at 11:54 pm
No Goinglite medical conditions aside, unfortunately for the most part they don’t…
Goinglite said :
February 19, 2010 at 12:05 am
Obese people do that all the time
Goinglite said :
February 19, 2010 at 12:29 am
If your diet is High Fat (saturated fat) / Low Carb, then there’s no need to “count:” calories. You will lose weight more effectively and be in much better health.
Goinglite said :
February 19, 2010 at 1:19 am
Weston Price is a very good source
Isaachelric said :
February 19, 2010 at 2:13 am
so much for having fancy papers and degrees in nutrition… it’s hard to believe that they all could be so wrong. saturated fast is supposedly so bad, yet some of the healthiest traditional societies in the world eat tons of it… the masais, the eskimos… weston price proved it all, yet no one listened. how is it fucking possible
amazingemma4ever said :
February 19, 2010 at 2:34 am
I have combined low carb with calorie counting and lost over 68 lbs so far this year. As said before it is amazing how satisfied you feel even though you eat less calories (I actually only eat about 1/4 ofthe calories that I used to).
MisterQuebec said :
February 19, 2010 at 2:57 am
My hunger is much more satisfied with a low-calorie, low-carb diet than high-calories, high-carb.
sugarkang said :
February 19, 2010 at 3:27 am
wrong. i eat more calories now than ever before and keep losing weight.