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		New study reveals Atkins diet is better than lowfat diet (story.news.yahoo.com)		252
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harveyfish		2003-05-22 08:34:36 AM

Maeks yu spel betr, two.

Atkins, dumbass.

jimmybat		2003-05-22 08:35:59 AM

<----- Study also proves Buttered Asians are not part of the Atkins diet.

Ninja_Pancakes		2003-05-22 08:36:02 AM

Is this slashdot now? Dupping posts? :)

JOHNDX		2003-05-22 08:36:39 AM

Huh?

tjmorgan		2003-05-22 08:37:01 AM

This is hilarious

Drew		2003-05-22 08:37:03 AM

They're not duplicate posts, they're two different articles on the same study

peetah		2003-05-22 08:37:20 AM

this just in: scientists are stupid.

great headline combo, admins... :)

Ninja_Pancakes		2003-05-22 08:37:45 AM

Ooops, my bad. Not dupes, just a clever Fark admin playing tricks with us folks that don't read the articles. :)

Av8rLuvr		2003-05-22 08:38:44 AM

Yeah, yum...bacon forever. I have a girlfriend who swears by this diet and eats bacon everyday. I'm waiting for her to drop dead of a heart attack.

oh yeah...she's lost about 3 pounds in 3 months. Bah

etihod		2003-05-22 08:38:46 AM

Yeah, its totally better....except you're thinner for about a month. Then you eat a slice of bread and gain 20 lbs.

Hint: Get your flabby ass on a treadmill 20 minutes a day.

RedfordRenegade		2003-05-22 08:40:11 AM

I'm on the Bacon, Beer and Marijuana diet. I have actually gained weight but I wake up everyday knowing that I'll most likely smoke, eat bacon then drink beer, that makes me happy.

Ninja_Pancakes		2003-05-22 08:42:26 AM

Err... or the headlines.

Shiatzu! Got me real good, congrats to the admins.

poonhill		2003-05-22 08:43:07 AM

This is great.

Blackvampyr		2003-05-22 08:43:34 AM

Classic

SadDad		2003-05-22 08:44:31 AM

I'm on my own diet (made this one up myself). The Lucky Charms diet. Ever see how few calories are in a bowl of Lucky Charms. About 120 per bowl. So, instead of a regular lunch, I eat a bowl of cereal. I like cereal, it tastes good, it's filling, and it's healthy. Then I eat regular dinner. I've lost about 3 pounds since I started about 6 weeks ago.

Woo Hoo,....I won't make a cent will I?

control		2003-05-22 08:44:59 AM

Cool. Perfect for me cuz I like to be on 3 diets at once. It's the only way I can get enough to eat.

macdaddy357		2003-05-22 08:45:15 AM

Studies are as fixed as rasslin'. They all find whatever the people paying the grant money want the researchers to find.

Kyosuke		2003-05-22 08:45:40 AM

"Every time he tried to stop..."

It's a nutritional plan. You don't stop.

Duh!

FLA Chickie		2003-05-22 08:46:30 AM

Okay if you say so...

RepoMan		2003-05-22 08:46:31 AM

playing tricks with us folks that don't read the articles.

Or even the headlines.

EatHam		2003-05-22 08:46:36 AM

I have a great diet plan. It's called don't eat so farking much and exercise.

Av8rLuvr		2003-05-22 08:47:21 AM

SadDad:

Is that with or without milk? Dry Lucky Charms would be a little hard to choke down.

uncoveror		2003-05-22 08:47:32 AM

Low fat, Low carb, it does not matter. Dieting does not work because diet foods make people fat. They are doped up. Read more. http://www.uncoveror.com/diet.htm

Tokenfemale		2003-05-22 08:47:51 AM

are we complaining about the spelling in the headlines? it IS spelt Atkins though. I don't understand...

modernhamlet		2003-05-22 08:48:03 AM

I hear Vitamin C and cocaine is a pretty good diet.

RepoMan		2003-05-22 08:48:17 AM

Or even followup messages... sorry Ninja_Pancakes.

TheGrayCat		2003-05-22 08:49:17 AM

"Every time he tried to stop..."

It's a nutritional plan. You don't stop."

Um, eventually you have to start eating carbs again. You can't have a "nutritional plan" without carbs.

FireBall		2003-05-22 08:49:41 AM

Look see... if you're fat, keep your carbs at 20 grams per day and you'll drop the weight, I did. As you get within 10 pounds of your target weight, increase your carbs a little at a time... the trick is to take in enough carbs so you don't lose weight, or gain. This is usually somewhere between 35-60 grams per day. If you think of it as a diet and stop, you'll gain the weight back. If you think of it as a new eating lifestyle, you'll be lean forever.

Everybody gotta make this shiat difficult. It's not.

Deerslayer		2003-05-22 08:50:15 AM

Whatever happened to the 'don't eat too much fat, eat lots of vegetables and exercise four times a week' diet? It works for most everyone, including me. I lost about 15 lbs in about two months. Granted I was running and working out 7 days a week, but thats what Squadron Officers School does to ya...

C'mon people, since when was high-fat-no-carbs "healthy"?

Buch_Wyld		2003-05-22 08:51:12 AM

About the only diet going on here is this dreadfull boobies diet. I'm horngry...

easternblocrobotcowboy		2003-05-22 08:51:23 AM

awesome.
classic.
core.

nice.

drpance		2003-05-22 08:51:49 AM

Hey. this one says AP so it must me true!

Av8rLuvr		2003-05-22 08:53:23 AM

Tokenfemale:

It WAS spelled Adkins when the article was Boobiesed. The mods must have gotten to it.

severin		2003-05-22 08:53:48 AM

bwahahaha

best headline combo ever

bigbox30		2003-05-22 08:53:51 AM

I have a couple of points about the Atkins diet; it clearly works and lots of people have lost lots of weight with it. You are not meant to do it for ever, just a couple of weeks something like that.

The problem is that some people are particularly stupid and miss the point...
If you were going to have a burger in a bread bun with chips, you should replace the chips and bread with lettuce, salad and other vegetables, NOT extra sausage, burger, fried egg and cheese. You see all these fat southern yanks on the tele wearing baseball caps eating pork scratchings, it's not rocket science.

FireBall		2003-05-22 08:54:14 AM

Low fat, Low carb, it does not matter. Dieting does not work because diet foods make people fat.

I got a feeling that when the clock strikes 12, you'll be thrust forward and make bird noises.

TickleMeElmo		2003-05-22 08:54:31 AM

Linking to the Yahoo presentation of both articles is what elevates this to pure comedy gold.

St.Alfonzo		2003-05-22 08:55:33 AM

05-22-03 08:37:20 AM Peetah

this just in: scientists are stupid.

Hey, let's not go making broad, hurtful generalizations. It's mostly just the life scientists who are stupid.

Perrin		2003-05-22 08:55:40 AM

Exercise. Start slow, build up. Mix cardio and weight training. I'm not sure if it works for everyone, but the more I exercise, the less I eat. During my first year out of college I lost 65 pounds this way, first time in memory that I wasn't overweight.

St.Alfonzo		2003-05-22 08:59:48 AM

Off topic, but I'm thinking that in Butteredasian we may finally have a plookable FARKpersonals girl. Anyone else? Too bad it's just a head shot, so you can't really tell how "buttered" she actually is...

bigbox30		2003-05-22 08:59:55 AM

I'm trying to market a diet called the Sensible eating and a moderate amount of exercise diet. I'm not sure how much sucess i'll have.

SadDad		2003-05-22 08:59:56 AM

Av8rLuvr

I only use low fat skim milk...

DslainteC		2003-05-22 09:00:19 AM

"You're not a shoplifter, you're just a fat kid. Sorry about that fatty, fat, fatty. Hey Tom, he's just a fat kid! Aren't ya fatty? He's a big ol' fat kid. Here's some chocolate fatso."

/Family Guy

TickleMeElmo		2003-05-22 09:00:36 AM

Notice that the negative article is in the "science" section (Where objective, rational readers apply healthy skepticism), and the positive article is in the "health" section (where the ginseng and "carb-max-burn tablets" crowd lap up every wacky new snake oil).

dogfather_jr		2003-05-22 09:01:01 AM

Bigbox30
I'm trying to market a diet called the Sensible eating and a moderate amount of exercise diet. I'm not sure how much sucess i'll have.

Absolutely none, because it involves several very nasty things:

1. Physical activity
2. Discipline
3. Personal responsibility

It'll never fly.

JunkYardDog		2003-05-22 09:01:30 AM

I am on the Atkins diet right now - so funny b/c there is all this publicity. This is my 3rd week and I've lost 8 pounds. I have so much more energy, and I am never hungry. I am a total Atkins freak now. The whole trick w/ Atkins is regulating your blood sugar. High carb/high sugar foods (like Coke) cause your blood sugar to spike and then plummet. With Atkins, your b.s. stays stable and you have so much more energy - b/c your metabolism is so much faster. You start burning your stored fat instead of carbs.

Long live protein!

Forbidden_Donut		2003-05-22 09:01:33 AM

I once heard of a successful diet, I think they tried it in that movie "Alive."

bigbox30		2003-05-22 09:02:23 AM

everyone wants something for nothing.

nhurley		2003-05-22 09:03:01 AM

I've been on this diet for a few days now.

I'm a total carbaholic, so it's going to be difficult. But I think since I usually eat so many carbs this may be especially effective for me.

We'll see how it goes.

TheGrayCat		2003-05-22 09:03:03 AM

Exercise and eat moderately. There are some things I will not live without: bread, rice, pasta and dark chocolate. I just switched to whole grain organic bread, brown rice, organic or flax seed pasta and limit my intake of dark chocolate. I've lost 35 pounds so far and I don't feel like I've been on a "diet".

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