Product Description

New Diet Revolution:
For over twenty years Dr. Atkins' dieters have been successful at losing weight while eating luxuriously and feeling completely satisfied. This is why the Atkins diet is the only major diet on which high rates of long-term diet failures are virtually unknown. This book shows readers how easy it is to lose weight without ever feeling hungry by cutting down on high-carbohydrate foods.

Dr. Atkins' revised edition also includes:
* Recent scientific developments that clarify the controversy over which diet is really best for you.
* Frequently asked questions by readers.
* Clarification on misconceptions about the diet.
* How you can interact with the Atkins Center to facilitate your weight loss, health restoration, and dietary enjoyment.

New Diet Cookbook:
Dr. Atkins' New Diet Cookbook contains 250 of the most asked-for recipes at the Atkins Center. People dieting the Atkins way are able to forget about counting calories, and feast on steak au poivre, creamy mushroom soup, roast turkey, New England clam chowder, veal scallopini and any number of other succulent entrees. For dessert, there's chocolate mousse, almond cookies, rasberry sorbet, and chunky chocolate ice cream, to name a few. When you follow the Atkins diet faithfully, you will never feel hungry. What's more, it will melt pounds away quickly and provide you with the will to stay at your ideal weight, without ever feeling deprived.

This book also provides:
* Scientific and clinical data demonstrating the health benefits of low-carbohydrate eating
* Evidence that the Atkins diet controls diabetes and cholesterol, reverses hypertension, ends fatigue, corrects many eating and digestive disorders, reduces allergic reactions, offers relief to asthmatics, and stops arthritic and headache pain
* Detailed menu plans
* A guide to nutritional supplementation

New Carbohydrate Gram Counter:
The easiest way to count your carbs, no matter what diet you're on, is with Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter. And it's handy enough to take everywhere.

* Is guaranteed to work for all low-carbohydrate diets
* Has over 1200 listings
* Includes brand-name products
* Lists grams of carbohydrates, protein, and fat
* Can be used for weight loss and maintenance Worldwide, this valuable supplement to the Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution has sold 1,600,000 copies!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #182092 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 3
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

Simply compelling science
After 30 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of research, the medical establishment has failed to show any link between dietary fat and weight gain, or for that matter, heart disease. Furthermore, no one can explain where the "low-fat" belief came from: apparently it has never had any foundation in science. Thirty years of pain and frustration, not to mention an incipient diabesity epidemic, have led many of the American public to become sceptical and despondent at ever gaining control of their health. Meanwhile, for thirty years Dr. Atkins has been prescribing what used to be accepted belief for diabetes and other endocrinary problems: the source of weight gain is carbohydrate, not fat, and his results have been undeniably successful.

His books first gained attention during the early eighties, and were lumped among the other "high-protien" diet schemes which were quickly discredited. But Dr. Atkin's quiet conviction, many pages of scholarly research references, and consistently mounting anecdotal evidence have now built to a small mountain of persuasion which cannot be simply refuted. His theory is based on a commonsense understanding of the insulin cycle which has somehow escaped the researchers. He convincingly debunks the supposed risks of his program as far safer than the low-fat, high-carb recommendations currently in fashion.

Earlier editions include more scientific background, particularly the fascinating fifteenth chapter on the heart, which expertly critiques the famous Harvard Nurses Study, among others. A bedrock of current dietary belief, this study completely ignored the effect of sugar on diet because the researchers "presumed" sugar had nothing to do with it, contradicting their own results. This chapter alone should open many scaled-over scientific eyes, and rightly cause much rethinking. I challenge you to read it with an open mind, and judge for yourself the evidence, based on strict science and observable results.

Drawbacks: He has not made a clear enough distinction between a high-protien diet, which he nowhere directly advocates, and a low-carb diet, which he does. It is not necessary to follow his 4-step program or take expensive supplements, though these are helpful and recommendable. He is a practicing cardiologist, not a researcher, so he must rely on others to do the necessary research to develop credibility. He should drop the hyperbolic "revolution" title, which sounds like shallow promotionalism. His biggest setback has been to accuse the American Medical Association and American Heart Association directly of bad practice, which has turned a scientific debate into a blood feud, and slowed down acceptance of his theory. We have a long while to wait for the marketing system to provide affordable low-carb products.

Ultimate take-away: low-carb is good science, and low-fat has been a 30-year old-wives tale. The medical establishment should drop their defensive posture, which only sets back the credibility of the scientific community and keeps us all in bondage to out-of-date beliefs. If you want a balanced controlled-carb diet with little explanation, go with Barry Sears' "The Zone". If you want to really understand and thereby control the mechanism behind weight loss, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes, Atkins' book is a medical watershed.

You will have to decide for yourself: I have lost 30 lbs!
I got on this diet as a result of my personal doctor telling me it was the only thing that would help me from not becoming a diabetic. Although I ended up being diagnosed diabetic I have lost and maintained, over the course of 12 months now, over 30 pounds. I began as a size 38 (almost 40) and now I am on my way to size 32 (I am at a comfortable 34 at this point).

There are several things you should bear in mind about it:
* This is NOT an easy fix for nutritional disorders. It works, but it takes TIME.
* This is NOT a balanced diet, because by repressing carbs (or maintaining them under 20 g per day in the begginning) it's aimed at getting your body in a state called ketosis. In such a state the body starts to use its stored fat as a source of energy, as opposed to expecting it from carbs. There are very diverse points of view about ketosis: being such a delicate topic, I invite you to make your own mind about it, but based on all I've read about it (and believe me: in a year's time, my diet is something I've devoted a lot of reading to), it seems to not be tied to the heart or kidney-related problems that are attibuted to it.
* It's not a static diet either, because your menu evolves as your weight does: as you begin to get to your ideal weight, the amount of carbs you're allowed increases as well.
* This diet requires vitamin supplements and exercise along with it, in order to work well.
* Most important of ALL, please check with your doctor before you begin this diet.

Long story short, read Atkins' books and decice for yourself. So far, I'm with it, but not too fond of the total lack of fruits that it has during its early stages. I've combined its elements with those of the "Omega Diet," and the concept of reducing the portions I eat in every meal.

You'll be suprised
This diet is very workable and effective. It is NOT dangerous as some people think. In fact, my doctor, after viewing the results of many of her patients who have tried this diet, has become very supportive. It takes willpower and a willingness to stick to it. I have lost lots of weight and the best news of all is that my blood lipids are the best they have been in my entire life. Cholesterol, triglycerides, LDLs are at an alltime low. We do periodic liver testing along with a lipid profile and the levels remain normal after many months. My glucose levels are also excellent. It takes some work but it becomes second nature after awhile because you feel great and have tons of energy. You must adhere to the 8 cups of water a day and it's very important to have some form of exercise program going. My wife and I both use this low carb diet and we both find it very satisfying.