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Rating the diets.(Your Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Your June article "Rating the Diets: From Atkins to the Zone" perpetuates the common misconception that I recommend a rigid, 10 percent fat diet for everyone, including for weight loss. To affect the progression of heart disease or cancer, people need to make bigger changes than if they are trying to lose a few pounds.
As I have written in "Eat More, Weigh Less," "Of course, it's not all or nothing. You have a spectrum of choices in what you eat." If you indulge yourself one day, you can eat more healthfully the next. To the degree that you move in a healthful direction on the food spectrum, you are likely to feel better, lose weight, and gain health.
Also, in evaluating diets, it is important to consider their nutritional value as well as weight loss. To rate a powdered shake as better than one based on fruits, ...
- Atkins Responds to Recent New England Journal of Medicine Weight-Loss Diets...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 27, 2009 700+ words
...carbohydrates than those prescribed in the NEJM weight-loss diets for weight loss. Atkins(TM) recommends that between 10 and 25...carbohydrate diets hewed closely to the Atkins' weight-loss protocols, the results would likely have...
- ATKINS DIET: The weight loss is good but side effects show up after 6...
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin September 4, 2004 700+ words
...year indicated the weight loss occurs with the Atkins diet despite higher...Although he said it seems Atkins is equally good at producing weight loss over one year, the...suspected that the weight loss on the Atkins diet may be largely...
- Owings Mills, Md.-based Medifast weight-loss product outlasts Atkins.
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) August 2, 2005 700+ words
...attention paid to the Atkins diet didn't much...though the competing weight-loss program hurt sales...think people on the Atkins diet had absolutely...people are looking at weight loss and they're looking...has more than 100 weight loss centers nationwide...somewhat ...
- Serotonin-Plus Weight-Loss System outpaces Atkins, South Beach Diets in study.
- Newspaper article from: Heart Disease Weekly February 1, 2004 700+ words
...s system results in higher weight loss than either Atkins or South Beach. An American...10 weeks while those on an AHA weight loss program shed an average of 6...University of Illinois found that Atkins dieters lost an average of 14...
- Serotonin-Plus Weight-Loss System Developed by DC Area Physician Outpaces...
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 5, 2004 700+ words
...s system results in higher weight loss than either Atkins or South Beach. An American...10 weeks while those on an AHA weight loss program shed an average of 6...University of Illinois found that Atkins dieters lost an average of 14...
- 12-Month Study: No Weight Loss Advantage With Extreme Diets; Study compares...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 9, 2003 700+ words
...books. The Ornish, Atkins, and Zone groups...for their assigned weight loss approach. Additionally...group receiving the Atkins self-help diet book in terms of both weight loss and 10-year heart...the mean percent weight loss and reduction in...and 6.4% for ...
- Athletes: abandon Atkins! Why sports-active people shouldn't go...
- Magazine article from: American Fitness Clark, Nancy January 1, 2005 700+ words
...complained to me the Atkins Diet isn't working...fail to understand that Atkins doesn't work. With...deficit, there's no weight loss apart from the initial...each meal offers some weight loss help. Protein lingers...are currently on the Atkins Diet, please add oatmeal...
- Atkins Shifts Gears to Promote Lower Glycemic Index Foods Over Carb...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 23, 2005 700+ words
...pioneering efforts. Now, Atkins nutritionals are adopting...maintain the preliminary weight loss they experienced on Atkins, eventually deeming...this shift in the Atkins diet, we encourage...to go for sustained weight loss: -- Kat Carney...