I assume that your dad was a type 1 diabetic when he died? It’s interesting to think that, had he followed the Atkins diet, he may have been able to reduce or even eliminate his need for insulin. I wonder if you would still be extoling the virtues of insulin if your farther had mistakenly read the instructions and overdosed himself because he didn’t do it right?
Remember everything we do in life carries a risk, but more so if we do not follow the guidelines properly. Drinking at least 2 litres of water a day is required just to replace what the body expels in perspiration, breathing, urinating and blood generation. If you do not replace that then your body will be dehydrated. The Atkins Diet recommends that you drink 8 x 8oz glasses of water a day to keep the body working healthily and stop protein building up in the kidneys.
The thing is, you, and many health professionals with your opinion have not understood or researched the Atkins diet are completely taken in by the negative publicity disseminated by the “Vested Interests”.
Who do you think sponsors the British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK health reports? Well each year it’s a different organisation. When it’s Van Den Burghs, then butter is bad for you, when it’s the Dairy Council then butter is good for you. And what do you think is the result when Tate and Lyle put almost £600,000 donation into the Diabetes Research Council project to look into the effects of disguised sugars in our food chain? Fructose Corn Syrup, Dextrose, Sucrose, basically anything ending in ose is a sugar that is a poison to all of us, but especially to diabetics. So why do Diabetes UK not make this the headline on all their literature, because they would upset their pay master, the sugar industry.
On Page 11 of the Diabetes UK’s Understanding Diabetes, Your Essential Guide Reviewed March 2010 Point number 7 states Limit sugar and sugary foods, this does not mean you need to eat a sugar-free diet. Sugar can be used in foods and in baking as part of a healthy diet. With no explanation of the facts how can your average diabetic realise that any amount of sugar is too much for a type 2 diabetic.
If you look at the “Eat Well Plate” you will see that a large proportion of what is on the plate is carbohydrate, fructose, starch and complex carbohydrates. Many obese people, especially those suffering health problems as a result have a very sedatery lifestyle. Just in case you were unaware, in order to burn off all the carb’s, sugars and proteins in the “Eat Well Plate” and not put any of it to fat an average person must exercise for 20min a day to a level that gets them out of breath. And that is just to burn the food you put in and not put on more weight.
This “Eat Well Plate” form of dieting does not solve the problem of glucose spikes caused when the body breaks down and works on the carb’s, complex carb’s and especially the fructose in the fruit. This causes the pancreas to have to release insulin and we are back into the glucose high and low cycle all over again.
The favourite word of these uninitiated and unknowledgeable “Health Professionals” is portion control. In other words, start the day hungry and eat foods that do not satisfy that hunger but will give you a hyper followed by a hypo and a craving for more of the same.
Another point that you the unknowledgeable fail to recognise is food addiction. I am not just talking about being addicted to putting things in your mouth to eat, I am talking about food that is designed to trigger certain endorphin receptors in the brain as they break down that convince you that you are hungry again, just an hour after a full meal. These are mostly found in high complex carb foods like pastas, breads and strangely fruits like apples and oranges.
And finally, what is it about people who have never understood or even attempted the Atkins diet but still want to pass judgement and make false assertions on those of us who do want to find out the truth and are on the diet and finding that it is healthy and does work.
You will be glad to know this is my last word on the subject of Atkins. I have studied and researched and this is what I know. As you all say each to his own and my own and my husband and sons own is Atkins.
A brilliant forum to talk about Atkins and losing weight is:
http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/forums/main-atkins-diet-forum/57176-i-am-bit-cross.html
Atkins wasn’t even born when Dad started taking insulin in 1928 so he would have had a bit of trouble following his diet. I doubt there were any instructions to read on the insulin either.
That’s a good result. I’m trying to lose weight as well by cutting down on snacks! Didn’t realise how much I was eating until I counted the calories in the snacks! Its so easy sometimes to just go to the food cupboard and eat without thinking which I think has also been mentioned here.
As for the knitting… apparently its very trendy now and is the “in” thing 