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silkmeadow
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Yup, the Aikens' diet does what it claims. I had my cholesterol and triglyceride test before I went on the Aikens' diet (January 2004) and it was just below the normal level. Same with the triglyceride levels - good but not great. In March 2005 I had it checked again and my cholesterol went down 50% and triglyceride levels dropped 30%. Plus I lost 20 lbs on the diet. I also exercise 4 to 5 times a week plus I walk to work which gives me a 40 minute walk a day.
I was very skeptical about trying this diet when I first heard about it as I thought it was insane to eat all that animal fat. But since nothing else was working for me I said I'd try it for only 2 weeks.
So not only did I lose weight but it helped by stomach problems (Candida) that I had for years with no help from 2 GPs and 2 Specialists. All claiming that I had IBS - in other words, we don't know what's wrong with you.
I'm still on the diet as it's the only diet I can be on where I don't feel like I'm starving.
So don't knock it until you try it. I highly recommend this diet for those of you who are trying to get rid of candida.
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- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... violetgrace
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MoreThis is a reply to # 596,571CONGRATS!
i am totally going to use you as an example to all those people that say its the diet of death. (and if its such a bad diet how did atkins make it to his 70s having been on it since the 70s)
right now i am in my first week of induction and i feel great.
i feel like i am getting alot of the fats for my brain and organs that i wasnt getting as a veggie or low cal or low fat dieter!
- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... tuckernuts
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MoreThis is a reply to # 596,572Dr Atkins plan was designed originally (although not by him but he did adapt it) to help those with high cholesterol and triglycerides and to minimise the effect of diabetes. Losing weight was really just a side effect. His main concern was to care for his patients' hearts and circulatory systems. Congrats on your terrific bloods. Stick with the plan and you can only improve.
- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... #35289
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This is a reply to # 596,572Dr Atkins plan was designed originally (although not by him but he did adapt it) to help those with high cholesterol and triglycerides and to minimise the effect of diabetes. Losing weight was really just a side effect. His main concern was to care for his patients' hearts and circulatory systems. Congrats on your terrific bloods. Stick with the plan and you can only improve.
- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... Uncas
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This is a reply to # 596,574Atkins did not die of old age! he mysteriously fell on ice and hit his head and died! At 70 something Atkins was in good health working long days starting early in the morning and often traveling and doing tv talk shows!Granted Atkins was no health freak he discovered the concepts of low carb diet to not only help his regular patients who where suffering from heart disease and diabetis, etc. but also to help himself from heart problems and obesity, which his education in cardiology offered nothing in the way of finding or returning to good health! Atkins was not the Jack Lalaine of low carb diets and probably not the best example of what a low carb diet has to offer in the way of good health! Atkins brought awareness to the fallacy that fat is harmful and that processed foods are deadly! These concepts alone can return one to good health with a little imagination and keeping up with what good nutrition is ! I think Atkins one failure was to not emphasize enough the importance of fruits and vegetables and how important uncooked foods including raw unpasturized dairy products are to go along with the cooked proteins and fat!
- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... #35289
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This is a reply to # 596,575But he did have a heart attack before that. You are right, what his book did for me was really realized how bad processed foods are, he even was the first I read to suggest that coffee should be eliminated from the diet. As far as fats go, I believe plant fats are what the body is after, not animal, but that is a whole other debate. Many people go too far on that diet.
My concern is that I'm not sure the body can really digest meat, and I want to get rid of mucoid plaque and clean out my intestines, I'm not sure that can be done unless one is on a vegan diet. (I'm not trying to be argumentative, it's just what I think about)- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... violetgrace
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This is a reply to # 596,576when did he have a heart attack?
site your source.
we are hunter gathers. we can eat what we get our hands on when its in the natural state. and the people that go overboard with it are not on the atkins diet. they are just not eating carbs. if you read the book or they did you would know that there is a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE difference.
i was put off by it too until i read the book.
and as far as cleaning out you intestines. some people are not doing the fiber thing as sugesting in the book. he suggests using psyllium in your daily diet.
i still plan on doing a Colon Cleanse once a year.
and i think of this too.
whats worse for you?
some gunk in your intestines that you can get rid of?
or weighing 400 pounds and getting health issues that will def. kill you?
a vegan diet makes me sick. i tried it three different times.
everyone is different. and this is a support forum so if you want to flame. go somewhere else.- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... #35289
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This is a reply to # 596,577Ya, see...I knew it was a mistake to try and talk about it. Flame? I already said I wasn't trying to be argumentative. Atkins Dieters do NOT want to hear anything else, if they do, they get mad at you. I was only asking questions and you are all affronted.
Good luck, I don't have any more questions for you.- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... violetgrace
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- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... Uncas
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This is a reply to # 596,578you seem to be the testy one here! And this happens to be one of the most attacked forums at curezone if you had bothered to look! Veegans think they sre so special they are the only people who introduce themselves by their eating style ,quite funny actually ! Hi Im Joe and I am a VEGAN! lol! The exttremist of the dieting world! And quite the fad veganism is, there has never been a culture that was vegan and it pops in and out of favor like the yoyo! I myself have never popped into the raw vegan forum to inform them how incorrrect I think their eating habits are, but veegans seem to be above that common curtesy , they are kind of like the fundamentalist of eating!
- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... johng
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- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... Uncas
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This is a reply to # 596,588<<<<<<<<
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HUH???? Please explain!!!
- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... johng
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This is a reply to # 596,589i think a vegan diet is fine, as long as you stay away from processed food, and as long as you don't eat too much raw food. what i'm saying is that people ofen lump vegans together, when they should not be. Andreas Moritz , with a forum here at curezone, recommends a cooked vegan diet, and points to the problems with a raw diet. His perspective is from ayurverda.
- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... Uncas
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This is a reply to # 596,590ok sorry I didnt know there was a difference! And I agree in a sense ,junk food is the real criminal but i tell you i believe many can't tolereate meat and many cant tolerate all veggies I tried raw for a while and it made me ill literally!Thats why it is more then rediculous to critisize others diets, what works for one may not work for the other! Its that simple to declare one diet superior to another is pure self bias! And ignorant! Hmm an all cooked vegan diet, that sounds different! lol!
- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... stuntwolf
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This is a reply to # 596,591PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!
Do NOT follow the Atkins diet if you want to live!!!!
I wish Atkins was alive today, because I'd kick his butt to hell and back.
I followed the Atkins diet religiously, and wound up with a 100% blockage of the LAD- a massive heart attack that cost me a career as a professional stuntman, and almost left a special needs child without her father. But for the grace of God, I made it to a good hospital on time.
My cholesterol had soared to 301, despite the fact that I was in excellent shape- I lifted weights, practiced extensive cardio and martial arts. Luckily I survived, but not without 4 more heart procedures. I've since reduced my cholesterol to 147, and I'm writing a heart-healthy cookbook.
Please people- use your heads!!!!
Consult a real physician, and READ up on the pros and cons of all diets before deciding on what's best for you!!!
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- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... violetgrace
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- Since you asked... #35289
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This is a reply to # 596,577NEW YORK (CNN) -- Nutrition expert and author Dr. Robert Atkins, creator of the high-protein/low-carbohydrate "Atkins Diet," was released Wednesday from hospital care and is resting well after his heart stopped, a condition called cardiac arrest.
Atkins was waiting for breakfast at a restaurant near his office last Thursday in Manhattan when he went into cardiac arrest. He was quickly revived by an associate and taken to the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center.
The episode was caused by cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart's ability to pump blood is weakened because of enlargement, thickening or stiffening of the heart muscle.
In Atkins' case, cardiomyopathy was caused by an infection that spread to his heart muscle.
"I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet," Atkins said in a statement.
A statement by The Atkins Companies also said the hot weather in New York may have been a factor in the cardiac arrest. Temperatures last week in New York were in the 90s.
"We have been treating this condition, cardiomyopathy, for almost two years," said Patrick Fratellone, Atkins' personal physician and cardiologist. "Clearly, his own nutritional protocols have left him, at the age of 71, with an extraordinarily healthy cardiovascular system."
Atkins told CNN, "I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage." He said "a controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease."
Doctors have checked for blockages, Atkins said, "and I don't have any."
Dr. Clyde Yancy, a cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a member of the American Heart Association's national board of directors, said: "Despite the obvious irony, I believe there is a total disconnect between the cardiac arrest and the health approach he (Atkins) popularizes."
Atkins' doctors have advised him to curtail his travel plans for the next 30 days as a precaution, but Atkins hopes to return to his work within the next week or so.
Paul Wolff, chief executive officer of The Atkins Companies, said: "Up until today, this has been a personal and private family matter for Atkins. It is unfortunate for the family that this has not remained so."
-- Medical Correspondent Rhonda Rowland contributed to this r
- agendas produce lies violetgrace
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This is a reply to # 596,580http://www.snopes.com/medical/doctor/atkins.asp
However, revelations in February 2004 from the city medical examiner's report let slip the information that Atkins had suffered a heart attack, congestive heart failure, and hypertension, before his death. The report was given to the Journal by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that advocates vegetarianism. Because the medical examiner's office is claiming this information was circulated in error, it may not be possible at this time to determine if what was in that report referred to events that immediately preceded (and therefore might have caused) the doctor's death, or if they were in reference to damage done over the course of a lifetime. (The report had been sent to a doctor in Nebraska who requested it. It was later discovered the person it was sent to was not "the treating physician" and so should not have had access to the report.) At present, the medical examiner's office will only say Atkins died of a head injury from the fall. "I can't comment on people's previous conditions. It's against the law," said spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.
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also my grandmother had a heart attack at 65. she never drank,smoke or was fat.
she never had immense stress or any high fat diet. someday you are going to die and usually its due to cancer or heart failure.
she lived to be 86 and never had another heart attack again.
"cardiomyopathy was caused by an infection that spread to his heart muscle"
my friend's father had a heat attack from having rhumatoid fever as a kid. there are many causes of heart attacks beyond eating meat.
- Re: agendas produce lies Uncas
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This is a reply to # 596,581Atkin was a cardiologist he treated people according to the standard medical procedures at the time , which had negligable effects on his patient prescribing pharmaceutical drugs according to the reccommmended AMA type procedures! he also was becomeing ill because of the standard american diet SAD that he was on and the same diet that his patients where on, he decided to look into the connections of a low fat diet and the old standard high fat low processed food diet and began to have great success with his critically ill to dying patients. ! He was healthy until his accidental death, the heart attack that accured way before his accident was a viris and had nothing to do with diet!
Mucoid plac can be eliminated according to DR. Kelly and others through the use of a combination of pepsin and okra without the need to be vegan!
- combination of pepsin and okra ? violetgrace
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This is a reply to # 596,582Atkin was a cardiologist he treated people according to the standard medical procedures at the time , which had negligable effects on his patient prescribing pharmaceutical drugs according to the reccommmended AMA type procedures! he also was becomeing ill because of the standard american diet SAD that he was on and the same diet that his patients where on, he decided to look into the connections of a low fat diet and the old standard high fat low processed food diet and began to have great success with his critically ill to dying patients. ! He was healthy until his accidental death, the heart attack that accured way before his accident was a viris and had nothing to do with diet!
Mucoid plac can be eliminated according to DR. Kelly and others through the use of a combination of pepsin and okra without the need to be vegan!
- Re: combination of pepsin and okra ? Uncas 19 y 8,302
- combination of pepsin and okra ? violetgrace
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- Re: agendas produce lies Uncas
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- Re: Since you asked... tuckernuts
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This is a reply to # 596,580Dr Atkins had a cardiac arrest, this is not the same as a heart attack which is where some confusion arises and the anti-Atkins brigade leaps up. His heart muscle was damaged due to an attack of a virus and he developed cardiac myopathy. A heart attack is caused by a loss of blood supply to the heart muscle through a clot or blocking of the arteries feeding the heart muscle, it is a vessel thing. Not the same thing at all, a lot of people make that mistake. His heart condition did not contribute to his death which was of complications subsequent to a head injury.
- agendas produce lies violetgrace
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- Re: 50% cholesterol drop and 30% tri... silkmeadow
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This is a reply to # 596,577Yes, I totally agree with you on doing a yearly colon cleanse. Aikens diet or not, it's a good healthy practice to do for your body.
I also have been drinking a lot of psyllium on this diet for fibre and to help keep me regular. Plus a lot of vitamins and minerals, as suggested in his book.
Silkmeadow
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