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The Breakfast Club
Is it an old wives tale or is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Perhaps your Mom always made you eat hot lumpy cereal in the morning, so as soon as you escaped her clutches, you developed the coffee and cigarette habit. And ever since, breakfast has been a bagel—at lunchtime. Okay,
Read MoreHow long can you stay on Induction?
Depending on how much weight one needs to lose, he or she can safely continue on Induction up to six months as long as the following four conditions are met: 1.Blood chemistries, lipid values, blood pressure or blood sugar levels continue to improve or remain stable and within normal limits. 2.One feels well and is
Read MoreThe Meat of the Matter
Along with protein, meat and eggs contain saturated fat and cholesterol, but quality and cooking techniques are far more important than the fat content in these foods. Eggs are a good and relatively inexpensive source of protein and other nutrients. We strongly recommend selecting organically raised, free-range meat, poultry and eggs whenever possible. Not only
Read MoreMake no mistake: Vegetables are essential to the Atkins Nutritional Approach.
Certain friends may have warned you that you’re going to negatively impact your health by doing Atkins. According to many self-appointed dietitians, Atkins restricts consumption of vegetables and therefore promotes heart disease and cancer. So if some misguided individual tells you that you won’t eat vegetables when you do Atkins, wave a stalk of celery
Read MoreNEW STUDY: THE MORE SUGAR, THE MORE CARDIOVASCULAR RISK
Want to cut your risk for having a heart attack or a stroke? Cut out added sugars. Just to be clear, added sugar is, as the name implies, a caloric sweetener added to a processed or prepared food. The classic added sugar, of course, is the table sugar most people add to their tea, coffee,
Read MoreBeing Carb Smart Can Help Your Heart Health
A growing body of research suggests that the types of carbohydrates a person eats—not just the quantity—have wide-ranging health effects. Much has been written about how “bad carbs”—meaning white bread, potatoes, pasta and others that cause blood sugar levels to quickly spike and then crash—make people more prone to obesity and diabetes. Now, researchers are
Read MoreAn Updated Perspective on the Role of Saturated Fat
How many people still believe that the world is flat? And how many people believe that the sun revolves around the Earth? Not many, if any, I would guess. And yet it was once common wisdom that both statements were true. Even hundreds of years after astronomers were able to make the case for both
Read MoreNow Is Your Chance to Move That Body
“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” Barbara Sher, author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. Last week I was in a
Read MoreOWL Will Make You Wise in the Ways of Atkins
You’ve completed the Induction phase of Atkins! Congratulations. Now you’re ready for the next step: Ongoing Weight Loss (OWL). I love the name OWL because it reminds me of a wise old bird perched in a tree intensely watching its surroundings and contemplating its next meal. By the time you get well into this phase,
Read MoreLet’s Keep It Simple. The Atkins Edge
Several weeks ago, I introduced the “metabolic bully” in this blog. The metabolic bully is a metaphor for the way your body responds when you overfeed it carbohydrates, particularly sugar, refined grains like white flour and other processed foods. In simple terms, too many carbs keep your body from burning your own body fat for
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