Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Cookbook
October 29, 2009 by Jim Made
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This book contains 250 of the most questioned for recipes at the Atkins Center. more info
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Simple, but uninspired recipes
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Yes – the recipes are simple.
I would reccomend this book only for a non-cook or beginner at cooking. If you thought of adding almonds to green beans or putting Splenda in gelatin recipes without this book – you don’t need this book.
The ‘spicy’ recipes are pretty tame.
The book might give you some thoughts, but I would suggest using the cookbooks you have and modifying some recipes to be low carb.
To Excellent To Be Right
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
The Adkins diet works because decreasing your carb intake decreases your calorie intake and it also works by your body loosing significant fluids secondary to increased urine excretions of ketones (from stout burning) and nitrogen (from use of protein for energy rather than the body’s first choice of glucose from carbs).
Problems related to this diet include:
* increased protein diets heavily burden the kidneys to excrete exessive amounts of nitrogen which has been shown to lead to loss of renal (kidney) function with aging.
*Inadequate carb intake compromises glycogen storage in liver and muscles (the body’s 1st choice for energy source) risking fatigue and poor performance
*Protein in excess of need is used for energy (but if you are fatigued from lack of carbs you wont use the energy), the other protein is converted to stout, and its a well known health risk to have an increased body stout %
* Also, high protein is associated with increased urinary excretion of calcium, and may therefore contribute to osteoporosis.
* High intake of animal proteins are linked to atherosclerosis (related to saturated stout and cholesterol content) and to colon and prostate cancers.
Honestly this diet is not healthy for you at all. Eating a well balanced diet and regularly getting excercise will help you stay healthy and can remove you from the burden and cost that all of these fad diets offer. No matter how Mr. Adkins died doesn’t matter… what matters is that you have a choice to make excellent decisions about your health and realize that sometimes these fad diets are too excellent to be right and we could be putting ourselves at risk by believing they are the answer to our problems.
Fantastic diet! but hard to find ingredients.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I highly recommend the Atkin’s Diet! I have been on it for six months now and I am losing wieght, looking and feeling better than I have for many years. You only feel tired if you don’t get enough stout in the diet. It took me a while to figure this out. But, the ingredients in his recipes are very hard to find. I have access to only a small health food store. If you don’t have access to a very large, well-stocked health food store, you may have to order the ingredients online. I still salute Dr. Atkins and thank him for giving me my health back!
My diet Bible
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I use this book every day of my life. Recipes are just wonderful and simple to use with everyday ingredients found in most pantrys. This book is my diet bible and will continue to use it until I have changed my diet habits.
Disappointed
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
For the cooking impaired, this is not the book for you. Although I am delighted with his Diet Revolution book, I am displeased with his cookbooks. They are anything but simple. I found some of the ingredients hard to locate where I live. I had hoped for something simplier. Like many people today, I am incredibly busy with family and work. I don’t have time to chase down ingredients and spend a lot of time in the kitchen. The cookbook is collecting dust on top of my refridgerator now.
Brilliant Cookbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Yummy recipes! The Atkins protein bars (peanut butter) are not terrible either. Those you can get at any health food store.
50 lbs Lost, Off Insulin, Feel Fantastic!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
1. To start with, I am a Cardiac Intensive Care Nurse and “binky”‘s comments were absolutely right about Atkin’s death…..and the explanation of the fluid gain
2. I have been diabetic over 20 yrs, much of that time on insulin. Some yrs ago, I noticed that if I had a meeting at work that required my attention, I would skip meals. I was sluggish, tired all the time, massive yeast infections, and so many other problems. I told my mother that I thought food was killing me….I felt so much better without food! But it was the sneaky lil carbs making me so sick!
How excited I was to learn Dr. Atkins! So now after 7 yrs on Atkins, I maintain my weight with 20 gms carbs or less a day and I no longer crave carbs. I quit buying huge bags of potatoes and loaves of bread! His Revolution and this diet book helped the most. I have adapted some of the recipes in the book to suit my taste.
My doctor will tell me the usual AMA garbage about this diet and then compliments me on all the progress! Hmmmmm. In the hospital, an 1800 ADA diet includes 5 starches a day and small amt of protein! Yuck! Boy, you should have seen the hospital dietician when my doctor let me be on a modified Atkins while hospitalized!
Hope this helps ya’ll out there!
The only book you really need.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
My wife and I have used the Atkins Plot. I have lost 40 pounds, and she has lost 60 pounds (both in about 10 months). We looked at the original ‘New Diet Revolution’ book, and at this recipie book. We noticed that THIS book includes a section that describes the diet, so we bought THIS book over the other. This gave us BOTH the diet, and the cookbook simultaneously. It has been worth 100 times what it cost. I suggest that you can buy this book alone, and ignore the original. This diet is a lifestyle change–make sure you are willing to commit for at least two weeks to see impressive results. You wont be sorry. Best of luck to you all.
Best Ever!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is outstanding information – makes a huge difference in my outlook on nutrition for myself and my family!
Atkins’ is a life-style!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I rate this book with 5 stars because it takes patience and persistance to figure out how to remove the “gunk” from most recipes, which is what has been done here, and still have them taste excellent!
Unfortunately you have to “cook from scratch”, which I personally like to do. Fortunately, someone has done most of the leg work for you. This is a excellent overview of how to prepare low carb foods, from soup to desserts.
Atkins’s low carb philosophy is a life-style, so anyone who hopes to be successfull should read this book and get other low carb recipes as well, and then adapt them to their own taste.
Now I eat as much “cheese cake” without guilt as I want, continue to shrink in size and feel fantastic.
What more of a testimonial can I make!
Thank you Dr. Atkins and Fran Gare!
excellent info…not so fantastic recipes
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I have been on the atkins diet for four months and have lost 56 pounds (and still going), so I can attest to the fact that this diet does work. I have never felt better or more energetic in my life.
The first part of this book talks about the basics of the diet. That’s where the three stars came from. The second part of the book is the recipe section. No stars for it. Most of the recipes call for ingredients that I cannot find in normal grocery stores. It’s really quite frustrating. Unless you live in an area with several health food stores, which I do not, I would recommend trying to find a different cook book with more practical recipes or coming up with your own.
Fantastic Compliment for Atkins Followers
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Everyone is unique and therefore believes differently –especially about the human “diet.” For those of you who believe in a “high-protein, low-carbohydrate philosophy,” this small book can be an invaluable compliment to Dr. Atkins diet books. He clarifies from square one in his diet books why his philosophy can be healthy and helpful. I personally have had success following Dr. Atkins suggestions. From a physics sound wave perspective but, any “diet” will work for anyone, anytime as long as they reckon, feel, and believe that it will…and then all you have to do is be pleased and thankful…a book has just been published explaining this very issue…
Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Cookbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Hands down the best low carb cookbook with the Candida diet in mind. I’ve bought several in the past 3 months, but this book has some fantastic recipes for the Candida diet (a week’s worth of menus and all of the recipes are fantastic!). If you are looking for a recipe book for low carb/Candida, look no further.
The TRUTH about Dr. Atkins death
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
It is astonishing to read the slam pieces here about Dr. Atkins so-called obesity and overweight condition at the time of his death. Here are the facts:
* He previously had a heart condition called cardiomyopathy — a serious disease of the heart muscle which is unrelated to diet.
* He died of a head injury because of an accident falling on slippery ice and not of being overweight.
* His actual weight was 200 pounds when he was admitted to the hospital at the time of his accident. The erroneous reports of him weight 258 lbs was based on his weight at the time of his death. The extra weight was not stout, but an accumulation of body fluids linked to organ failure during his coma.
* His previous reported heart attack was due to a viral infection and not diet related. He spoke openly of his condition on various national news programs.
* The report that was released about him being overweight was leaked to the press by a group named “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine”, which is an ardent opponent of the Atkins diet. In small, they distorted his weight by reporting the weight at the time of death – 258 lbs, and not at the time of his admittance – 200 lbs…an obvious attempt to discredit and distort the facts surrounding Dr. Atkins death.
* A formal complaint has been filed by the Medical Examiner of New York regarding the suspicious leak of this information to the public by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.”
* The disinformation surrounding Dr.Atkins untimely death is politically driven by the AMA and other detractors of the diet.
Dr. Atkins book, New Diet Revolution has turned the AMA and other nutritional views upside down and has made a furor over the standard edicts of the medical profession. What is not said among the detractors of the Diet is that it is safe and it works. The information contained in this book will not only help you lose weight, it could save your life. The food industry, especially the bread and pasta industry have lost hundreds of millions of dollars because of the low carb revolution. Is it any wonder that this diet is under so much fire? Keep an open mind and read the book.
As a side note, ignor the mumbo-jumbo rantings and ravings of the “Elixir Diet” system. The hatred and mis-information spread by the reviewer is evidence enough that the Elixir system is phony as a three cent penny. Nuff said. The guy hasn’t even read the Atkins book! Sheesh.
Save your money and go to the Web site
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this cookbook before looking at the Atkins Web site. Huge mistake. You can find these recipes, and in some cases updates of them, for free on the Web site. You can also find lots of low-carb recipes by searching with Google. This book also could have used the help of an experienced cookbook editor.