Re: LOSING (WATER) WEIGHT (THE ATKINS WAY)

From: magnulus (magnulus_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:31:30 -0400

"Nashville Pete" <poremskinospam@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:9vKdnf6z66wjdKzcRVn-ig@comcast.com...
> Dr., please read this week's (Late August 2004) Medline post on Low Carb
> nutrition. You need to bring yourself up to date with the latest research
> before you post this this kind of stuff under your name.......FOR SHAME!
>
>

  Fatkins diet makes you lose water weight and your breath stinks and you
give off a bad odor (smell like rotting flesh or death, to me). How
pleasant.
Ketosis is also dangerous because the body will start digesting lean muscle
mass eventually. Ketosis also occurs in people with anorexia nervosa.
Prolonged ketosis might also produce endorphins and painkillers, producing a
"high". People might feel great but they are screwing up their bodies.

  My mom is on this retarded diet (so is my dad). She is now on cholesterol
lowering drugs. She really hasn't lost much weight, either, despite eating
all those bunless burgers. If it causes weightloss at all, it is small,
and due to caloric restriction. People would be much better off to eat
whole-grain rice and breads instead of indicting carbohydrates as evil. The
brain, after all, must live on carbs, it cannot feed off protein at all.

  A study just showed that drinking or eating grapefruit lowered insulin
levels in overweight individuals (and the people lost 3 lbs on average
without changing anything else). This flies in the face of Fatkins wisdom
that fruit raises blood sugar.

  There is also little evidence that being overweight, but not obese, is
very bad for society in the long run. The moderately overweight do not have
decreased life expectancy, for instance. People should be more worried
about eating good, healthy food, than losing weight, IMO (especially since
weight loss in women often leads to eating disorders). Cut out the junkfood
and sugary soda pop, not the whole wheat bread.

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