Atkins Diet Misconceptions: Waning popularity or passing fad?
August 18, 2010 by Jim Made
Filed under Atkins Diet
One of the constant comments is “didn’t low carb die off in 2004?” or “didn’t Atkins Nutrition go bankrupt?” The implication is that it was obviously a fad diet, and that all wise people know better now. Besides just simply being fake comments, I have been seeing more subscribers lately than ever, and my humble video and blog have been receiving more views than ever. (Here are the results from 2009 videos – www.network-admin.net There are still numerous people doing the diet and many starting on a daily basis, and while perhaps it might not be as “hip” or cool as 2004, people doing Atkins now have better access to more low carb recipes, better support sites, and better communal atmosphere than back in 2004. A lot of the naysayers criticisms have been addressed or proven fake since 2004 as well.
The sample menus are just that samples not prescriptive amounts to eat. You are allowed to eat meat liberally until satiated. If that takes 1kg of beef, so be it. I have ate 16 oz steaks in my day when I was really hungry and regularly eat over 500g of chicken or beef for a meal.
Hi there. I’v started Atkins on Jan 10th. Haven’t seen any majore weight loss yet, but I feel that’s something’s happenning by the way I look and the way my clothes fit. Just one question though: Atkins says that foods like meat, fish, poultry etc. one can eat LIBERALLY but on the next page where he proives Sample Induction Menu he really tells you HOW MUCH of salmon or beef you can eat. So… if I eat more than 250gr of salmon a day or more than 230gr of beef…. will the diet not work???
Make a point soon…
jfla
Very fascinating … I read how the study was misreported or focused on the calorie restriction aspect and not the glucose restriction aspect in the press. If only the researchers would have done a eucaloric study with glucose restriction, and then we might have some real numbers to brag about.
There may be some truth in that. Since starting Atkins, I have so much more energy that I have begun side jobs (like the Windows 7 education material) and have earned more money. I could see where one might be tempted to cheat on taxes and not report the extra income.
As for telefiling, on Atkins with the excess energy, I personally run my returns all the way to Kansas City to drop them off. It’s a excellent work out plus I get to how my taxes are being used along the way.
Hey Kent,
I reckon I read somewhere that the Atkins Diet will cause you to cheat on your taxes. Is this right? If so, does this also apply if you tele-file?
Iz
Another fantastic video as usual … hey, check out this blurb and see if you want to do a video on it:
Glucose restriction extends healthy cellular life span
Writing in an article published online on December 2009 in FASEB Journal, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) reveal that restricting glucose, a common dietary sugar that is used by the cells for energy, results in extended life for healthy cells and growth inhibition and programmed cell death of precancerous cells
Me too… The other plans might work for others, but for me they just led to frustration.
Oh but don’t you know that grapefruit diet was SO healthy for them… Tons and tons of fructose, which has now been linked to the fatty liver disease. I am plotting 2010 is better than 2009 even.
Thank you for the nice words and for watching! If I can impart any of that wisdom to others, I am glad.
You know the your SHIT! Well spoken.
The atkins diet has saved my life. There will always be nay sayers and people questioning this diet but the results speak for themselves. If you told someone 15 years ago that you lost all this weight by eating bacon, cheese, pork chops, mayo, butter, sausage, ect and you were never hungry they would have fell off their breakfast table chair laughing as they choked down 1/2 a grapefruit and a slice of dry toast. Heres to you in 2010 Kent. Thanks for giving us the best gift ever. Your knowledge!
Low carb is the only thing that has ever worked for me!
Thanks Iz! Here’s to an extremely successful new year, and I already have another video in the can (so to speak) ready to be edited and uploaded. It’s my eldest daughter (non-LC’er) favorite Low Carb meal.
I had seen your exit video on the ancient channel, but I hadn’t seen the new one. I just subbed, so I will be keenly interested to see your first real video on the channel.
I want to see more the NewChistina emerge too.
I really agree Dusty. Everyone is beginning to see the danger of all the “whites” in their diet, and that is one of the first thing cut in most well loved diets. Thank you for watching, Dusty, and here’s to a super 2010!
Fantastic video Kent! Looks like a excellent start for 2010 bud!
iz
People do not realize that EVERYONE is doing low carb! All you have to do is open a magazine and every celebrity is doing low carb! Like your vids KENT!!
I like all your videos. BTW, this is the former XF89. I made a new channel for myself for a new year!
Thank you, Ang!
No problem, I hope you like the next video I am working on now. It’s another recipe video. It should be up in a day or so.
5 stars kent like the vid
Thanks for making these informational videos!
When you know that, what difference does it make what any one else does…
Popularity doesn’t necessarily make right. It just has to be right for you. Always excellent to see you around, Bonnie — I really need to catch up on my video watching this week!