Fat is good! RE: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 18:06:04 MDT

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    > Concerning the meats, this gets to a central issue regarding
    > the Atkins
    > diet: the diet is a popular success largely because it allows
    > luxuries like
    > butter and cheese and bacon and sausage, which help people
    > stay with the
    > diet by satisfying their lust for fat. (I remember how much I
    > loved my bacon
    > and cheese omelets back when I followed Atkins). But these
    > fatty foods are
    > luxuries with potentially serious health consequences. There is to my
    > knowledge no good reason to include fatty meats like sausage,
    > bacon and
    > pepperoni, much less butter and cheese. If an Atkins dieter decides he
    > absolutely cannot live without his fatty butter and cheeses
    > then he might
    > still improve on the diet by eating only lean cuts of meat, fish and
    > poultry.
    >
    > -gts

    That's not correct, actually. The Atkins diet requires, especially in the
    induction period, that you eat practically no carbs and a *lot* of fat.
    Protein seems to be secondary; you eat protein because you can't just live
    on fat. But the crucial element is a large amount of natural, non
    hydrogenated fats. So the cheese, and cream, are really important.

    The point seems to be to get the body into a state of lipolysis. Apparently
    it is crucial to get a high fat/carb ratio in order to achieve that.

    He stresses that if you try to combine low fat eating with the Atkins diet,
    it will fail.

    Emlyn



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