[at-l] RE: Hiking & Low Carb Diets.

[shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Shane)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Adams [mailto:stephensadams@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:28 PM
> To: shane@theplacewithnoname.com
> Cc: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: Hiking & Low Carb Diets.
>
>
> Shane,
>
> Reference your post, dated 1-30-03, inviting me =93...
> to read Dr. Atkins' book.=94
>
> I've only read part of it.

I've read it twice, and looked up many of the references.  I can't find
anything wrong with his assertions.

> I observed a symposium consisting of several
> dieticians, including Dr. Atkins, who had written
> diet books.  The good doctor was scorned for
> ignoring much available contradictory data.

Like I said, I am not a nutritionist.  All I can tell you is my personal
experience with Atkins.

Before Atkins, I was 270 pounds and a borderline diabetic with a rapidly
climbing cholesterol count - and my ticker wasn't ticking just right.
Eventually I crossed the line and the doctor wanted to give me the pills.
Desperate to avoid that, I followed the prescribed diet - high carbs, low
fat, restricted intake.  Results?  My blood sugar went UP.

Then I found Atkins.

Little more than four months later, I am 230 with normal blood sugar and
normal cholesterol.  My heart checks out beautifully.  My blood counts are
all fantastic.  I no longer suffer from crashing fatigue, and my insomnia i=
s
much better too.

I roughly follow the maintenance diet now, finding that I like french fries
a little too much to give them up.  Now that I'm not poisoning myself with
refined sugar, I simply feel a lot better too.

I'm not saying that it's for everyone, but at this point I could give a dam=
n
about the science.  I've never entirely trusted Western Medicine, and the
prescribed diet certainly didn't work for me.  Atkins did.

Galileo was persecuted as a heretic.  Doesn't mean he was wrong...

Shane