Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

by Robert C. Atkins M.D.

Overview

Dr. Atkins' original best seller, Diet Revolution, showed millions how to lose weight quickly, easily and without going hungry. Now Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution offers not just weight loss, but total wellness designed for the overweight metabolism. You can: Eat the delicious meals you love. Never count calories. Enjoy a cheeseburger when you're hungry. See amazing results in 14 days. Reach your ideal weight ... and stay there

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Find out How the Atkins diet can help you reduce major health problems, including chronic fatigue, diabetes, and high blood pressure. How the Atkins diet can protect your heart. Why eating rich delicious, gourmet foods can be your path to permanent weight loss. How to cook the Atkins way with spectacular recipes from a world-famous chef. Dr. Atkins' original bestseller, Diet Revolution showed millions how to lose weight quickly, easily, and without going hungry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060081591
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	12/28/2004
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	560
Sales rank:	26,886
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Robert Atkins, M.D. has been acclaimed around the world as an authority on diet and nutrition, and is the founder and director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Cornell University Medical College, he is the author of seven best-selling books on diet and nutrition and hosts Your Health Choices on WEVDradio in New York City. Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution has been translated into French and Spanish.

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Preface to the New Edition

I've never heard of an author redoing his book when it is still a number one bestseller, but this book has been a success for seven years, and some updating is in order. So much has happened since this book was written that I feel I must keep you abreast of how important these changes will prove to be, not only for your weight control project, but also for expanding your health and lifespan.

No, my diet recommendations are not different, although I'll be telling you about some very delicious special foods and some plateau-breaking vita-nutrients created exclusively for Atkins dieters. What has changed dramatically is the world in which the New Diet Revolution plays such a significant role.

When I first wrote this book, I had to convince an entire nation of people who, for a generation, have been systematically brainwashed into believing fallacious ideas about overweight. The unchallenged dogma was that carbohydrates are necessary for everyone, that white flour is good for you, that fats and protein undermine your health, that weight loss requires strenuous exercise or going hungry, and that appetite suppressants may be necessary.

But because the New Diet Revolution works so well, producing essentially automatic weight loss with little regard to quantities, millions of people learned, almost exclusively by word of mouth, that a diet directly opposed to what they have been taught would easily bring their weight problem under control. And they also learned that those who defied the prevailing dogma would improve their energy levels and lab values and would often overcome many medication-requiring illnesses.That is why this book has sold more copies each succeeding year of the six-year span it has been in print. In that time, more than 2 out of every 100 adults in America has obtained a copy of this book, and more have read it. All of these readers have been forced to consider the possibility that one person may be right and the rest of the world wrong. This serious accusation is not made from arrogance, but rather of deep concern that the errors of the "rest of the world" are so widespread as to threaten your health in many ways unless I can help you understand how and why you are being used to further certain economic interests.

You have been repeatedly told that meat, eggs, butter and cream are bad for you and that pasta, cereals, bread, low-fat milk, flavored yogurt, high carbohydrate energy drinks and the like are good for you. Scientific research points in the other direction, but economics explain the discrepancy. The maligned foods, curiously enough, are all those that bring minimal profits to the food industry, and the approved foods, all of which are built upon the least expensive raw materials, are the ones the industry finds most profitable. Although scores of scientific papers have been published showing that what we are taught cannot be true, the utterances from medical associations, the government, and the media never change. Once that sinks in, you may be more receptive to sharing my suspicions that you have been victimized.

In the updated version of New Diet Revolution, I have written three new chapters. One deals with recent scientific developments that may clarify the controversy over which diet is really best for you. Another deals with questions I am asked most frequently by my readers, and the third deals with the rather preposterous misconceptions that I have seen in print about the program.

In addition, since my colleagues and I at the Atkins Center have expanded our services to our readers, I have updated many chapters to integrate information about how you may interact with us to facilitate your weight loss, health restoration and dietary enjoyment.

Also, throughout the book, I have updated information when appropriate. And finally, I am aware that this very book has profoundly changed people's attitudes toward dieting and this edition recognizes the different mindset that people now have -- namely, the expectation of success. This optimism, based on the success of people like you have seen, should, I am confident, serve to be a wonderfully selffulfilling prophesy.

ROBERT C. ATKINS, M.D.
JANUARY 1999

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. Copyright © by Robert Atkins. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
Part 1	Why Atkins Works	1
1	The Promise	3
2	Understanding Some Basics	17
3	How You'll Succeed	31
4	Is This You? Three Types Who Need to Control Their Carbohydrates	38
5	Understanding the Importance of Insulin	47
6	The Great Fat Meltdown	56
7	Is There a Metabolic Advantage? You Be the Judge	64
8	The Complexities of Carbohydrates	74
9	Facts and Fallacies About the Atkins Nutritional Approach	93
Part 2	How to Do Atkins--Today and for Life	105
10	Before You Begin	107
11	And Away You Go: The Induction Phase	121
12	Time to Review Your Results	145
13	Are You Ready for Phase Two?	154
14	Ongoing Weight Loss: The Second Phase of Atkins	165
15	Engine Stalled? How to Get Past a Plateau	182
16	Pre-Maintenance: Prepare for Permanent Slimness	193
17	Lifetime Maintenance	205
18	A Regimen to Jump-Start Weight Loss	226
19	Eating in the Real World	236
Part 3	Understanding Health and Well-Being	257
20	Metabolic Resistance: Causes and Solutions	259
21	The Psychology of Weight Loss: Behavioral Changes for a Healthier Life	275
22	Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable	286
23	Nutritional Supplements: Don't Even Think of Getting Along Without Them!	301
Part 4	Disease Prevention	311
24	The Perilous Path to Diabetes	313
25	Yeast Reactions	331
26	Food Intolerances: Why We Each Require a Unique Diet	338
27	Lifetime Protection for Your Heart	344
28	Spreading the Word	360
Part 5	Food and Recipes	367
	Food and Recipes to Help You Do Atkins	369
	The Recipes	382
	Carbohydrate Gram Counter	492
	References	503
	Index	528

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Atkins has given his hugely popular diet plan a makeover, complete with new recipes, updated scientific information, and a more integrative approach to weight loss and total health. With the medical community beginning to recognize the validity of the Atkins approach -- which maintains that excessive carbohydrates, not fat, are the real culprits in weight gain -- there has never been a better time to check out the diet revolution pioneered by the author whose other bestsellers include Dr. Atkins’ New Carbohydrate Gram Counter and Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Cookbook.

bn.com

Atkins updates his 20-year-old best seller, Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution with a holistic approach to health and well-being. He repeats his controversial, questionably valid premise that the elimination of carbohydrates from the diet will result in weight loss, good health, and euphoria. Contrary to current thinking, Atkins promotes a diet of protein and fat in four stages: induction, ongoing weight loss, pre-maintenance, and maintenance. Case histories document his achievements. However, his verbose text, bloated by rhetoric and generalizations, may overwhelm lay readers, who may not be able to distinguish between fact and speculation. Useful appendixes include menus, recipes, and a carbohydrate gram counter..-- Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community College Library, Garden City, NY

Library Journal

"Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution", published two decades ago, sold millions of copies but was denounced by medical authorities for its unsound high-calorie, low-carbohydrate regimen. Now it's back, slightly modified, and billed even more contrariwise as a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. Atkins blames carbohydrates for most cases of overweight—as well as for much fatigue, mental fog, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. A high-fat diet, he says, is harmful only when added to a high- carbohydrate diet. At times, he backs off and hedges, admitting, for example, that refined flour and sugar, not all carbohydrates, are the culprits, and even that the desserts he promotes should be limited to special occasions. Still, heavy cream, butter, and cheese abound in his recipes; bacon and eggs are on his daily breakfast menu; and his program, especially the 14-day "induction diet" designed to induce ketosis, or fat-burning, turns all prevailing guidelines upside down. It will be interesting to see how this book does now that low-fat, high-carbohydrate eating has been so widely accepted by professionals and public alike. Atkins claims success with his 25,000 overweight patients (who take an average of 30 nutritional pills a day along with the diet), and he scores a point or two against pro-establishment preconceptions among researchers, but he certainly doesn't prove that his is the healthier diet. Still, get ready for a blitz.

Kirkus Reviews