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		New study reveals Atkins diet is better than lowfat diet (story.news.yahoo.com)		252
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cola		2003-05-22 09:56:47 AM

I'm eating cookies right now.

Fark's-Unlaid-Mass		2003-05-22 09:56:48 AM

The Atkins diet will be universaly flawed until it solves the riddle of beer.

Jagermeister		2003-05-22 09:56:51 AM

From what I recall in my health and fitness class this past semester, this diet is mostly bs. It would be much more simple to continue with the carbohydrate eating, but avoid simple carbohydrates and instead go for complex ones (which you're supposed to be doing with regular healthy eating anyway). With a diet like this and no exercise, that weight you're burning off is mostly protein -- if you exercise then 98% of what you're burning is fat. If you want the best results, exercise! And besides, exercise IS useful for preventing heart attacks.

Nightsweat		2003-05-22 09:57:56 AM

Hunter/gatherers were able to exercise by gardening, lifting, and the ever popular "Holy crap! Mountain lion! Ruuuuuuunnnnnn!!!!!"

kpar90		2003-05-22 09:59:14 AM

Was it funded by the tobacco companies?

PrincessPanda		2003-05-22 10:00:32 AM

I think Atkins works and I know people who love this diet. I tried it and was pretty faithful. Then one day, I ate a piece of bread and gained 5lbs OVERNIGHT! How does one gain 5lbs from eating 100 calories worth of bread? Doesn't it take 3500 calories to gain a lb? After that, I was terrified to try the diet again.

IronChefRichmond		2003-05-22 10:04:14 AM

I started Atkins 20 minutes ago and have already lost 40 pounds. Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

IronChefRichmond		2003-05-22 10:04:59 AM

05-22-03 09:51:42 AM DisplacedTexan
Jack Daniel = 0 carbs..."

No carbs, but plenty of calories.

St.Alfonzo		2003-05-22 10:05:20 AM

05-22-03 09:56:47 AM Cola

I'm eating cookies right now.

Is it the fat girl's turn to go down?

cola		2003-05-22 10:07:41 AM

St.Alfonzo, seems only fair!

mistervague		2003-05-22 10:07:59 AM

I'm on the "moderate exercise, lots of vegetables, occasional half bottle of scotch" diet.

whydontyoucryaboutit		2003-05-22 10:09:29 AM

Maybe we all should've layed off the steaks and beer a few years ago. But you know what, dieting ruins all the fun of eating badly. So i say; let's lead America into a nation of heartattacks and morbid obesity

Oh wait, we already lead in those two categories

trapped-in-CH		2003-05-22 10:10:11 AM

Mmmm... donuts.

/gotta go now.

jay_vee		2003-05-22 10:12:23 AM

I'm on the shiatloadsaexcercise diet. I figured I'd never lose my love-handles (more like love-barges actually) by cutting out food (too much of a greedy sweet-toothed bastard), so I just cycle to work and go to the gym. I eat whatever the hell I like, and I've kept the extra 40 pounds off for about 6 years.

St.Alfonzo		2003-05-22 10:12:33 AM

It does, Cola. I'm just glad she left you some cookies.

HanZnSolo		2003-05-22 10:14:45 AM

St. Alfonso Haha! Don't often hear references to a previous day's post!

jay_vee		2003-05-22 10:15:03 AM

05-22-03 09:56:47 AM Cola
I'm eating cookies right now.

I'm not eating cookies now, because that would be unhealthy - after the three cakes I've already had. (I love it when someone in the dept. has a birthday.

TheConvincingSavant		2003-05-22 10:15:18 AM

Jagermeister

The Atkins diet is an easier way for some people to cope with the restrictions of dieting. It's easier to go without carbs than without fat. I do agree with you that this type of diet is not the best thing for a person in the long run. The best advice, no matter what you eat, is to just make sure you use more calories than you take in.

Delfin9187		2003-05-22 10:16:24 AM

"About 40 percent of the patients dropped out of each study."

buncha lazy fat-a$$es!!!!!

JJ_UK		2003-05-22 10:19:35 AM

It didn't do Atkins much good. If he'd been much fatter he wouldn't have been able to get out of the house and therefore wouldn't have died.

louiedog		2003-05-22 10:20:49 AM

I know this really fat woman that is on the Atkins diet. I was having lunch with her in a cafeteria and she went to the sandwich bar and got about 3 sandwiches worth of meat and a couple of slices of cheese but got angry when the woman reached for bread. She then went for the drinks and took some of that juice that's only about 5%-10% real juice and at least as much sugar as soda. She loves the diet but from looking at her I'm convinced she's gained weight in the last few months.... I wonder why. As with any diet people need to remember what they can eat and not to be gluttons about it.

Delfin9187		2003-05-22 10:22:16 AM

back when I was fat I just drank four big glasses of water before I ate. Now I am 5'10" and 155lbs. I cant gain weight now for shiat now and I am all bird chested and chickened legged. Damn overly successful water diet.

I was going to put a book out on how to work the water diet however stretching, "drink four glasses of water before every meal" into a whole book was too hard so I quit.

/quitters never win and winners never quit. We do take long breaks though.

St.Alfonzo		2003-05-22 10:22:53 AM

05-22-03 10:14:45 AM HanZnSolo

St. Alfonso Haha! Don't often hear references to a previous day's post!

Normally my short term memory wouldn't be that good, but her original comment was very funny, so I guess it stuck.

MysticSavage		2003-05-22 10:24:50 AM

Welcome to the Cover Your Ass School Of Journalism...today's lecture will be moderated by Jayson Blair.

dbeare		2003-05-22 10:25:40 AM

Personally, I think any diet will work as long as you stick to it forever. I've been on a diet for 4 weeks, have lost 15 lbs, simply by eating more fruits and veggies, not snacking during the day, and running 2 miles a day. I've never felt better and hopefully i'll be down to my goal within a month.

~D

lukelightning		2003-05-22 10:26:28 AM

The Atkins Diet is for meat eaters who are jealous of militant vegetarians and want to go into food related hystrionics but not give up meat.

Tristram		2003-05-22 10:26:51 AM

Been on it for 6 years. I'm lean and mean. It works you don't even have to be that strict, just awareness of how many carbs you eat makes a huge difference. You eat a lot less on the diet too. Believe me, try eating two hamburger patties. It's harder than you think. Fat makes you full for a long time. But i used to eat pasta by the gallon. The insulin spike of carbs makes you hungrier.

uwlawboy		2003-05-22 10:27:10 AM

SadDad: Take it from a major cereal enthusiast... the "bowl" of cerel you likely eat is probably three times the "serving size" on the box. One CUP of lucky charms is 120 calories.

Don't kill the messenger. And don't try to take me Lucky Charms.

minoridiot		2003-05-22 10:28:48 AM

Got to admit I tried the Atkins diet once. It is a good diet for people who sit on thier butts all day long. The hardest part is the caffine and sugar withdrawals in the first week. Although I've tried it, it's not a good diet for me since I am a drinker with a running problem (35+ miles a week).

TheGrayCat		2003-05-22 10:28:59 AM

"I know this really fat woman that is on the Atkins diet. I was having lunch with her in a cafeteria and she went to the sandwich bar and got about 3 sandwiches worth of meat and a couple of slices of cheese but got angry when the woman reached for bread. "

I worked with a guy who was the same way. He would try to make me feel bad for eating a veggie sandwich, yet the whole while he's eating 4 hot dogs wrapped in slices of kraft cheese. It was worse than sitting with a vegan and eating a steak.

If the Atkin's diet works for you, good for you. It doesn't work for everyone, and some people (like me) have no wish at all to try it.

di-namix		2003-05-22 10:29:50 AM

Why are there two identical headlines? I don't get it.

(Kidding, BTW).

It's very amusing, yet frustrating, to see all the people who post without reading/thinking first -- check out last night's American Idol thread for a great example (though you'll need a bit of time to look through it all).

lunaticcalm		2003-05-22 10:30:25 AM

how many of us are sitting here at the computer with a huge cup o'joe? eh???

me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me

TheGrayCat		2003-05-22 10:32:24 AM

"how many of us are sitting here at the computer with a huge cup o'joe? eh??? "

I have a mug of tea (Earl Gray, hot). Would that be a cup of Jane?

lunaticcalm		2003-05-22 10:33:28 AM

no, it would be bra of jane...

mangomango		2003-05-22 10:33:53 AM

Louiedog

I would suggest to your friend that she's not on the Atkins diet at all! Atkins is very clear on the importance of vegetables and is emphatic about staying away from processed meats and other forms of trans-fatty acids. Just because someone says they're on the diet doesn't mean they actually are.

TheGrayCat		2003-05-22 10:34:57 AM

Ah, I see:

Cup of joe = coffee
Bra of jane = tea
Training bra of janette = herbal tea

ISeeYourDisease		2003-05-22 10:36:23 AM

how many of us are sitting here at the computer with a huge cup o'joe? eh???

I have a super big gulp of water that someone wrote 'Joe' on. My name is not Joe.

I hope this fabled Joe never finds my cube

jay_vee		2003-05-22 10:37:14 AM

I have a small cup of green tea. Does this mean I'm gay?

lukelightning		2003-05-22 10:37:50 AM

As can be seen in my pic, I subscribe to the "Caveman diet." Eat whatever you can find and as much as you can, especially carrion (mmmmm....three day old wooly rhino corpse...). And I also do the "caveman exercise plan" which involves a lot of chasing antelopes with pointy sticks and running away from smilodons and dire wolves.

MyrnaMinkoff		2003-05-22 10:37:54 AM

I'm on the "moderate exercise, lots of vegetables, occasional half bottle of scotch" diet.

Me, too.

BrandonSi		2003-05-22 10:39:44 AM

The diet works, it's a very simple principal of switching your body over to burning fat instead of carbs.

As for the negative views people have, it's usually due to people on the diet who lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks and become so obsessed and militant about it that they have to spout off to everyone they meet.

For those of you who've never tried it, keep an open mind. Why would it be so popular if it didn't work?

For those of you on the diet, shut up already, I don't care what you had for lunch.

RingToll		2003-05-22 10:41:28 AM

Body Schmody. Any REAL progressive aspires to be reduced to the purity of a brain in a jar. Archaists!

lukelightning		2003-05-22 10:42:00 AM

Did you hear about the dyslexic Atkins diet? You can't eat crabs.

/rimshot

lunaticcalm		2003-05-22 10:43:03 AM

lukelightning... you forgot dragging women around by their hair too, you know so they don't fill up... HA HA HA..

i know i know i just had to do it

TheGrayCat		2003-05-22 10:44:17 AM

"For those of you who've never tried it, keep an open mind. Why would it be so popular if it didn't work?"

The cabbage soup diet was popular and people lost weight with it. Doesn't mean I want to spend the rest of my life eating cabbage soup.

I keep my bread and pasta, thank you. Eaten moderately, they don't hinder my weight loss.

Emasedawg		2003-05-22 10:44:37 AM

Sidenote: Does anyone know the name of the product that drink for 3 days and it is supposed to clean out your colon and intestines of the accumulated fat? Supposedly, you can lose several pounds and it makes your digestive system more efficient.

lunaticcalm		2003-05-22 10:45:23 AM

green box called dieter's tea

jay_vee		2003-05-22 10:45:39 AM

Does anyone know the name of the product that drink for 3 days and it is supposed to clean out your colon and intestines of the accumulated fat?

Drano.

BrandonSi		2003-05-22 10:45:56 AM

Colonblow.

skanktosser		2003-05-22 10:46:42 AM

I lose 3lbs. everytime I sit on the toilet!!!

Listen to Fat Bastard and do "The Zone, Carbs are the enemy yeahrrrrrrrr"

Yeah cavemen had a diet of meat, berries, and nuts but they chased their food around for hours with sticks and when they caught up to their food they had to go to town on it with their sticks whacking away for a good 4 hours trying to kill it, so you know they were ripped!

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