Listen to the Lowcarbshow.com weekly podcast podcast.com At lowcarbshow.com our goal is to offer good information to help you lose weight! Vincent Vegan and Marc Sage offer a weekly podcast discussing all of the ongoing things in the diet and weight loss world – we focus mostly on Low Carb and Vegetarianism but we discuss everything – here is something I found on the internet that I thought you guys might enjoy! The world’s most beautiful and famous have swallowed his advice. He wrote one of the biggest selling diet books of all time, and it was based on his extraordinary belief that you could eat as much as you desire and still lose weight. His name was Dr Robert Atkins, author of the Atkins new diet revolution. To some Dr Atkins was a hero, to others his diet was scientific heresy and potentially deadly. In a series of ground breaking experiments Horizon investigates the truth behind the most controversial diet in history. Does the Atkins diet really work and is it dangerous?

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@koreoh12 lol

May 28, 2010 3:21 pm

@koreoh12 Ignore it. Now go on and finish that pizza pop.

May 28, 2010 3:51 pm

@bundleHastings You know the facts. You been told your whole life.
Pretend it’s the music and the joke’s on you.

May 28, 2010 4:05 pm

@rizgoth Congratulations, i wish you many long healthy years.

May 28, 2010 4:25 pm

@eizhowa no, im saying a high protein low carb moderate fat diet would help with weight loss

May 28, 2010 4:45 pm

@GrenMoyo So If they had been put on a low protein, low carb, high fat diet – they world not lose weight? Can you back that up? I’m not trying to offend, I would actually be interested in that kind of research.

May 28, 2010 5:40 pm

haha! if i played this background music in my medical office they’d call me Dr. Kevorkian!

May 28, 2010 6:31 pm

because if you understand nutrition today, a calorie isn’t a calorie…that mentality would mean that 100 calories from soda is the same as 100 calories of spinach. more protein has a high thermogenic affect on the body in fact it actually takes calories to use the calories of protein…hence why it helps.

May 28, 2010 6:37 pm

@bundleHastings I agree, the sound effects are annoying

May 28, 2010 7:20 pm

I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned combining this diet with Alli – eat all the fatty meat and be full but lose all the fat in the end. Sorry, couldn’t help the pun :) Have to wonder how dangerous that diet would be though…yikes!

May 28, 2010 7:46 pm

stupid fucking documentarys with redicelous music and sound effects…totaly stupid.

May 28, 2010 8:16 pm

I was so confused…it was University of Pennsylvania not Pennsylvania University…which doesn’t exists.

May 28, 2010 9:10 pm

I think they were attempting to make it seem more “dramatic” and “entertaining.” I mean…it is documentary about a diet. But I certainly understand your view point and the information would have been just as palatable without the music.

May 28, 2010 9:50 pm

This didn’t happen to me. I lost 200 lbs by eating low carb and keeping my carbs under 30 grams per day. Once I reached my goal weight I slowly increased my carb intake until I neither gained or lost weight depending on my exercise plan. While on low carb I only had cravings for carbs in the first week, after that I had cravings for roasted chicken, duck, turkey, the list goes on. I currently eat about 90 grams of carbs now, and have maintained a 201 weight for 6 years.

May 28, 2010 10:15 pm

This diet was great the 1st time, i went from 96kg to 80kg in 3months, then went off it and ended up 104kgs! not good, expemsive to maintain and u crave normal things like cereal and bread something chronic, but if u can manage to stay very low carb forever, this diet is perfect for keeping the gut away.

May 28, 2010 10:55 pm

Yes, I didn’t understand the music that much either.

May 28, 2010 11:45 pm

What stupidity. No one says you can eat limitless food. The point is to not eat carbs and sugar (carbs). Instead of burning carbs when we move around, we burn the fat. Changing your car from cheap carb gas to delicious fatty gas. Add exercise and you will have a perfect body. Atkins is a genius.

May 29, 2010 12:18 am

lipid -hypothesis is false, we need fat

May 29, 2010 12:48 am

Did Dr. Atkins amazing diet

was at 305lbs and got down to 195lbs

AND

ALL blood levels … didn’t even get into “normal” range … they got into “OPTIMAL” range

Thank you Dr. Atkins. Always remembered.

May 29, 2010 1:37 am

Totally correct.

May 29, 2010 1:59 am

Atkins was on to something though.

Good fats such as omega 3′s that come from food’s such as salmon, nuts, flax seed oils etc. Have been proven to not only be good for the brain but also help lose weight.

Combine this with fruits and veges which are high in fibre and carbs such as wild rice and green tea along with exercise you would be very healthy. People are thinking in reverse.

Eat healthy to lose weight not the other way around.

I could go on but I’m running out of words.

May 29, 2010 2:54 am

What is with the ‘spooky’ music all through this programme? It gives it the atmosphere of a ghost story. I hate this attempt to manipulate our emotions. Just give us the facts please!

May 29, 2010 3:03 am

rk9295 I think your findings are correct. There is less money to be made from selling us proteins.

And don’t forget the massive profits being made from weight loss surgery, which is now being offered to just about anyone. My doc even offered it to me on the NHS!

May 29, 2010 3:46 am

The more research I do on my own, the more I’m convinced we were told to eat carbohydrates on purpose by the government.

Food companies make money off of us because carbs are so addicting. They knew it would fatten us up and cause health problems.

Doctor’s could then prescribe us medications that we would have to take for the rest of our lives.

Fitness companies could then make products that would claim to cure our fatness, everything from machines to protein bars.

Carbs are a scam.

May 29, 2010 4:08 am

The Atkins diet is working!!! I like it.

May 29, 2010 5:04 am

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