Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health

Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health
by Robert C. Atkins

Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health
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Author: Robert C. Atkins
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2003-01-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Book Review: Atkins - Your way to a Low-Carb Diet
Summary: 4 Stars

After all the controversy about "Low-Carb" diets it's good to get the story straight from the man who started it. This book lays out the ground rules and provides a good overview of the science behind the hype one reads on the Internet and hears from the media.

I found that just a few minutes with Dr. Atkins' book answered a lot of my questions about how carbohydrates affect your diet and overall health. It also set me straight on a number of misconceptions I had formed out of ignorance or from the half-truths spouted by diet "experts".

If you're thinking about a low-carb diet like Southbeach, you owe it to yourself to get Atkins' perspective on nutrition and food-related health issues.

Bottom line...there's a lot information in this book. It has a reasonable number of good meal plans and great recipes. Only shortfall I found was the lack of cross-referencing so finding all the parts to a meal takes a bit of effort.

Summary of Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health

Taking It To The Next Level

Whether you've lost weight doing Atkins and want to make your success permanent or you're new to Atkins and are concerned about your health and weight control, Atkins for Life is for you. Filled with advice and tips on navigating the everyday challenges that come with eating low carb in a high carb world, the book provides a simple and straightforward lifetime program that anyone can follow. With Atkins for Life, finding your ideal weight and staying there has never been so easy or so good!

Dig in and discover:

-200 menu plans-that adds up to over six months of menus! With controlled carbohydrate counts of 45, 60, 80, and 100 grams, anyone can succeed on the plan.

-125 recipes, including tasty breakfasts, fabulous lunches, delicious dinners, and smart snacks.

- How to create special holiday meals and fantastic ethnic cuisines ... the low carb way!

- Before and after photos and success stories -with time-tested tips from those who've been there and won their battle with weight.

- Self-tests and quizzes to help you meet and stay with your goals.

It is bread and not butter that is the enemy in Dr. Atkins's popular and controversial low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet. In In Atkins for Life, he continues his decades-long crusade against low-fat eating. Atkins argues that low-fat meals are high-carbohydrate missiles, causing the body to produce excess insulin, which then produces fat, slows down metabolism, and tips the scale. Instead, he urges readers to stop counting calories and fat grams and start counting carbs to rev up their metabolism and burn fat as an energy source. The question of whether "ketosis," the fat meltdown he advocates, is healthy or harmful is a central question of this sequel to the bestselling Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. Packed with recipes, menus, carbohydrate counters, and strategies for staying with the plan, this book is less clear than its predecessor. It veers back and forth between how to begin and how to maintain "a controlled carbohydrate lifestyle." It is also more promotional, with photos of satisfied slim folks and pitches for the branded Atkins products. Still, with its pages of testimonials and studies about weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and increased energy, it is hard to argue with Atkins's results. He puts his proof in the pudding. --Barbara Mackoff

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