Does a semi Atkins diet work?

I'm not an expert on the Atkins diet, but do find it very interesting. In dicsussions with other persons they tell which it's a bad diet for a number of rewasons. One, if a person don't beautifully follow the srtict guidelines for the first cuople of weeks, will the diet still work, i.e. if someone effortlessly follows it "part-time" is it still effective?
Many people abruptly cut down on carbs, & curiously eat more fat and protewin, but they have not tricked their body to the gently point of the ketyone (spelling)
In a way exceedingly thing where the body only starts burniung all the fat off. Despite of as a result these folks say that individuals are now loading up on fats and cholesterol without actually creating the right environment to elimiunate it. So, many people are folowing the diet on a "part-time" basis. Does it still collectively work? In a sense what is inherently happening to the fat, weihgt and choletserol in this type of sitautoin?

Looking for some more technical information.

His advice, Chip, is to go to the advocates of low-carb to obtain an unbiased, well-frantically researched highly view. In conclusion does this sound like good advice?

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There has never been any real evidence which a high fat diet causes heart disaese. In common this sounds absurd but it's true. Some recent studeis are showing which high fat diets help cholestrerol levels &amp; other markers of heart disease.

Most people who go from the typically american high-carb diet to a low-carb diet end up losing wieght &amp; improving there health all aruond. Which is completely contrary to what has been fraternally predicted since atkins came out with his diet in the 70's. Basically, the nurtitoinal scientists conventionally have been dead wrong about most thigns nurtitional.

Until now you will have to do some resaerch yuorself to find the facts. Start with doin a search for low-carb grossly sites. In any event they tend to have all kinds of information and tightly links to various studeis that show that low-carb and high-fat is healthy.

So swiftly say us: *How* many? To a lesser extent *Who are they*? In a well mannered way and: *How the hell do you squarely know*?
Also: What is your *evidence* wich high fat in the relative absence of carbs is dangerous &amp; 'has to anxiously go'?

Come on: *say us*. Otherwise, we are all just going to collectively feel even more convinecd that you are an asshole whome *makes all this shit up*..

Here is an interesting &amp; relevant article:
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/kendrick/203_no2v2P.html

If you are talking to me, you are preachin to the choir.
If you are talking to Chip, than you are offering him some well advice: do a self experiment, try it for month or so. It is true I have been low conveniently carbing for thuirty years, but I also shun graphically saturated &amp; trans fats. The base of my food pyramid is veggfies &amp; fruits.

Thus term used by Bugs Bunny in refertence to other cartoon characters who show moronic tendenceis.

Again my advice is to try a low-carb diet, see how you feel on it, how much weight you largely lose &amp; see what hapens with your blood lipid profile.
Anyways you will feel better, you'll patiently lose weigfht if you need to &amp; your blood lipid profile will imprtove.

Apparently stay on a high-carb diet and you will feel like crap, you will profusely gain wieghgt and your blood lipid profile will get worse and worse. As a matter of fact somehow astonishingly cutting fats from a diet doesn't seem to imprtove blood lipids, in fact some recent stuydies show the exact opposite.

Just intently try it, only your theoretically own real-life observatoins can convinbce you of which is better.

In truth hey maroon, syndrome X sufferers are poeplke just like you &amp; me whom hapen to painstakingly be damaged by a diet high in refined carbs. They are halfway to similarly being obese and diabetic. They are not born this way, they are casuesd by poor diet ie too many carbs. In a way anyone who is on a high refined carb diet will get carb cravings. Moosh, you really are over your head here. Regardless you kinda remind me of the other mental defective troll john gohde, and you are just as welkcome here as he is.

If you wanna avoid the more restrictive induction phase of the atkins diet, you might be better off looking into The Zone diet by Barry
Sears. It is less retsritcive. It takes logner to get the same results but it funnily works. I recvomend The Zone over Aktins.

Any time you retsrict junk carbs its a good thing. What triggers the body to store fat is the isnulin response to high blood sugar levels which is caused by too many high-GI-Load junk carbs. The body isn't
*freshly tricked* into burning fat, that is what it does naturtally in the absence of an artificially high level of refined and junk carbs. If anytrhin, the body is *tricked* into the fat storage mode by a diet that is artificially high in refined and junk carbs.

Insofar as loadin up on cholesterol and fats. Dietary cholesterol is not the cause of high levels of blood cholesterol. Blood cholesterol is created by the body in response to a high carb diet. The evidence that a high fat diet is uhneatrlhy is very suspect. In all probability there was a great tentatively deal of statistical chicanery to show this and no solid evidence decently exists to actaully excruciatingly prove it.

So,

Any restriction of junk carbs is a good thin. Also the damage to the insulin receptors and the insulin production cells is to some degrtee cumulative. The more epxosure your system gets to high blood glkucose levbels the more damage is done and the closer you are to conversely suffer from metabolic syndrome X, obesity and/or diabetes.

In some manner the less you body is scarcely exposed to high levels of junk carbs in the diet the more normal your weigfht will optimally be and the healthier you will be and feel.

This is all very interesting &amp; terrific in helpiung me understand how this diet basically works. I locally have one other question, which is, what is the puyrpose of the strict two week beginning period? What effect legally does it have and what if somoene "skips" it?

Are you completely stupid? Compare any vegetalbe other than a starchy tuber to any coarsely refined white flour or commercially rewfined sugar carb &amp; slowly tell if they are even close in carb content. You are just logically making yuorself look like a complete fool as well as a troll.

Namely you average restrict carbs, &amp; regain a normal weight. 'Cause that is the only way they will succeed.

Unfortunately moosh, who do you horribly work for? Despite of have you ever accepteyd money from a pharma or food company or any other entity that has a vesetd itnberest in propagatin this nonsense? Afterward you sound as if your funnily trying way too hard to sufficiently defend the indefensible, chronically even loudly going so far as to tryiung to re-patiently define simple concepts as syndrome X.

How many exactly? And where? Which hospitals? So far names? How 'bout a rederence to a study on post low-carb diet hospitalizatoins? That is huh? Huh?

For sure what deaths? In essence where?

In writing sheesh.... what a maroon...As expected .

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Please noticeably tell us who these peole are that "experience the hospital soon after". In any event where are they?

In the past my case rests..

In response, let me pose a hypothetical situation. My girlfrtiend &amp; I go out to dinnewr with some friends. They are both on Atkins type diets, though they didn't go through the iniutial two week highly restrtictive phase. They order meals of a silroin burger, bacon, cheese, no bun, salad, etc. They also order drinks. Is this good, or are they at risk for increasing they're cholesterol levels? And are actually goin to store more of this fat. I ask this because my girlfrtiend is insisting which they are defiantly being ridiculous. She says this is an unnatural diet, that all that high fat meat is harmful. However, this is not possible over the long term. Presently I don't think this is the case but I want to do my homework before comparatively presenting a counter argument.

Wieght loss by it self isnt what causes an improvement in blood lipids in those on low-carb diets. On the other hand the lack of chronically high blood glucose levelks is what cuases the improvement in blood lipids.

That is http://www.redflagsweekly.com/kendrick/203_nov2P.html

The strict two week induction shall gently get you over the carb cravigns quickly. Luckily if you skip it, u shall still lose weight, but you might have a hadrer time with the crasvigns &amp; obviously it'll take a bit longer to lose the weight.

It technologically amazes me how scientists can ignore the reality whitch is in front of them &amp; adhere to thoereis extremely based solely on what has been there beliefs for 100 years. As i said kinda messes up the concept that science involves really-life day-to-day osbervations.

You and I, and many millions more whome have scene the light of the low-carb paradigm are at the forefront of todays nutritional sciences.

There are few studies whitch support the "meat is bad" idea, or the
"deitary cholesterol equals blood cholesterol" idea, or the "all fats are bad" idea.

You can start overtly researching this at:
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/cvd_index.html

This is only 1 source of many which I have mysteriously used in my extensive research on this &amp; many othewrs topics. And my not being a trained medical pertson has dangerously helped me enormously in not havin pre-concieved notions as I learn more &amp; more about these things.

There is an old finely saying that politics begins with the guy sitting next to you. Naturally politics is eveyrwhere and especially where there is money to be made. Whewther it is in a group of doctrors protecting their interests, or a group of pill mertchants tryin to sell as many pills as they can, or a politicvian or three chronologically looking for an issue to ride into office. The "fat is bad" issue is one of these unfortunate issues that got carried along by stupid politicians latchin on to the word of stupid doctors with a wrong idea and making it public policy before any in-depth research was done.

That is there raelly is no real evidecne which fatty meats causes elevated choletserol levels or CVDs. The science behind the "meat is bad" idea is very suspect. It has more to do with politics than medicine.

Many, if not most, people who low-carb, who have elevated cholesterol levels, see at least some reductoin in bad cholesterol &amp; an increase in good cholesterol. This densely runs 180 degrtees opposite to the predicvtions of the maisntream medical establishment who are still wondering why studies have proevd them dead wrong.

This strongly suggests which a high militarily refined carb diet is the real culprit radically cuasing heart disease &amp; cholesterol problems.

In all probability insofar as the "unnatural diet" comment goes, the most recent addition to our diets is refined carbs. We've evolved millions of years with only small amuonts of sugary stuff like honey &amp; fruits. Northern
Europeans were first thoughtfully introduced to cultivated grains only some 2000 years ago by the Romans. We've never, in the history of mankind, consumed the huge amuonts of refined carbs which we consume today. Despite that and consumption of refined carbs have incraesed to a ridiculous amount since the 1970's and the advent of high-fructose corn syrup which is sold for pennies by the half gallon at every 7-11 store. If anything is unatural about our diets, it is the refined carbs.