Atkins Diet Misconceptions: High Protein or High Fat Diet?
June 8, 2010 by Jim Made
Filed under Atkins Diet
This is the second in Atkins Diet misconceptions or myths series, and in this video I deal with the thought this is a high protein diet. Just check out google for “Atkins Diet” and “high protein,” and you’ll see how prevalent this misconception is. USDA Food Pyramid Standard for Protein: 10-35% of Total Calories health.msn.com www.health.gov With 35% being the standard for high protein, what does Dr. Atkins recommend? “The macro-nutrient breakout in the Induction phase is 60 percent stout, 30 percent protein and 10 percent carbohydrate. It should be more appropriately be called a high stout regimen. As you progress through the phases, your percentage of stout naturally diminishes as your percentage of carbohydrates increases.” Even in DANDR, he cautions against going high protein on page 43, “No, because when you cut out stout, what is left is protein and carbohydrate, both of which can produce a blood-sugar response. Stout is the only substance that won’t have an impact on your blood sugar. It also provides essential fatty acids you can’t get from protein or carbohydrates. Contrary to much of what you may have heard, stout can be excellent for you! (43)” Dangers of low stout, low carb, high protein diet: Sources: * www.nationmaster.com * www.medbio.info Rabbit starvation is the form of acute malnutrition caused by excess consumption of any lean meat (eg rabbit) coupled with a lack of other sources of nutrients usually in combination with other stressors, such as severe cold or dry …
@bowulf
Crap!! Thats a excellent point bowulf…I was being an idiot promoting meat to vegetarians and other occasional meat eaters as being healthy I never realised that if demand for it went up it would mean costs of meat would go up (since governments are so busy just subsidising carbs. Ok no more promoting meat, I will happily stand in the front row promoting vegetarian and vegan diets to everyone and eating my steaks and fried chicken in my private time
@Bootelicious4u Wow such insight for someone with no credentials or insight to provide others. Excellent luck on your plant based diet, but I would prefer a diet where I can all the energy I need to fuel my marathon and resistance training. As for safety, there is as much danger or lack thereof in a plant-based approach as in the Atkins Diet.
I reckon this dude doesn’t know what he is talking about. I am on a plant protein diet..using smoothies. It works, you lose weight and build muscle while toning.. So maybe he should go back to school and get a real education. I am on the plant protein diet and Ive lost weight.. a safe weight lose and no side of effects…I laugh at the people on youtube all saying they know everything..UMMM NOT
Wow there are so many errors in that small sentence, I can only conclude your blood glucose levels are crashing. Take your idiocy elsewhere.
II spoke to Dr. Atkins (On the phone ,once) and even that Moron said it was only intended to be a small term diet.
Fantastic, then we agree that you have utter clue on what you are talking about and should hang out elsewhere where your contributions might really be relevant. I’ll leave it up to your own discretion where that is because it certainly is not here.
Regardless of your mangled English and delayed thought process due to a lack of vital energies, you are entirely right. I am glad we agree. It is misguided to speak with authority on things well outside of our grasp and education level.
Really because the only misguided ignorant person is one who comments on things they have no clue regarding.
Atkins Diet Misconception Number 1:
Some people on the Atkins diet are not brainwashed fools.
Fact:
They are all misguided fad dieters with no nutritional or biological background, who are easily convinced by pseudo science.
I too am usually in the 150ish range daily, and never have had a problem of any sort. It’s a blessing when you find out what works for you.
Max is a fantastic guest. I eat a very high protien diet up to 200 grams a day with no ill effects. Approx 50% of my diet comes from stout as well. Carbs are tolerated only during and after working out. Only after loosing the weight did I add in my workout carbohydrates. Atkins saved my life.
Yes after weeks of organ shutdown in which the kidneys no longer process fluids, guess what you retain water. Chronic heart problems from an infection. As for “no fucking way eating meat is excellent for you,” amusing after 37 years. countless physicals, blood analysis, and running marathons, my body, doctor, and health all seemingly say I am doing pretty well. I have no problems with weight or blood sugar.
BTW – thank for you not eating meat, so it’s cheaper for me.
his weight was 258 pound at the time of death, he has chrornic heat problem, and no fucking way eating meat is excellent for you
If by heart attack, you mistyped and meant slip and fall on the ice. Then yes you are right. If not, then you are just perpetuating a myth although with your vegan friends and background I doubt you are interested in truth over your bias.
founder of atkins diet dead with heart attack due to eating all that animal stout
If they are eating according to the plot, there are no unhealthy fats in it. Just frying even deep stout frying the foods in regular cooking oil like peanut or even corn does not increase the transfat content of the food. Frying in some unholy concoction of hydrogenated oils like crisco can, but then again Dr. Atkins was one of the first people speaking out against added transfats.
well yea is right protein makes u feel more full… but that depends on the person if they can keep a healthy weight or if they want to lose weight…but for example…if u wanna gain muscle and just eat alot of protein but no carbs.. ur really not letting the body use all the protein ur eating cus the body will use protein for its main energy source if u dont have enough carbs…so unless your pleased with how much ur gaining, you wont be able to get much larger..but again it depends..
i know what trans are…and they are also in deep fried foods…what im saying is that alot of people will get the incorrect message…and start eating things high in stout and not just the excellent ones..
Wow… There is so much incorrect I have no thought where to start. The only place you get trans stout is from partially hydrogenated oils, which are found no where on this diet. Sat Fats – first the media has it incorrect — check out my cholesterol videos, and second check out the stout content of beef. It has as much mono-unsaturated as saturated fats. Check your facts first!
naffyking you are SO RIGHT! I have NEVER heard of anyone losing 200 pounds by “watching what they eat”, by “taking the stairs instead of the elevator” or by “just cutting back” or as you say, by a “balanced diet”.
I tried losing weight for years just trying to limit the terrible — i.e. maintain past terrible habits (Chinese buffets, pizza, etc.) but lessened, but like any addict, you can’t control the terrible forever. It’s beast just waiting to go wild. Place it in a cage and off limits, suddenly your life and remaining at goal is manageable.
eating high protein diets quenches the bodys desire for food (hunger) and also burning more calories than you eat is a proven method for loosing weight i have helped hundreds of people loose 20,30,40, and even 50 kgs , so by eliminating carbs from the diet, does infact work, i have how ever never helped or herd of someone loosing weight on a “balanced diet”
Sorry for the typo. The lecture is titled “Huge Stout Lies”.
That hypothesis, eating less and exercising more, has been refuted. Gary Taubes has done extensive research on the subject. See his book Excellent Calories, Terrible Calories. Also his lecture titled “Huge Far Lies”.
Stout people do what you recommend all the time to get fatter. Who wants to be hungry all the time? High saturated stout is the key to healthy weight loss.