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March 5, 2007

The Return of the Atkins Diet

So you want to lose weight? Zone, GI Ornish, LEARN, or Atkins - which diet plan to choose?

A recent study among women suggests that the Atkins diet resulted in the greatest weight loss -- with no indication of undesirable side-effects.

Among fad diets, Atkins stands out for its carbohydrate reducing and ketonic state inducing. Most nutritionalists just shake their heads but I can tell you it has worked for me. However, the problem with most fad diets is long-term commitment and a return to old habits. Atkins for life just doesn't seem reaonsable.

A person that would no doubt disagree is Dr. Mary Venon, the author of the Atkins Diabetes Revolution. In an interview last month she expressed that she has been greatly "saddened" because the low-carb approach is being widely ignored despite being shown to be extremely effective for treating diabetics:

"If you control the carbohydrates that go in your mouth...then you will control your blood sugar and your blood sugar hormones (insulin)," Dr. Vernon said in her interview, reiterating her belief that diabetes can be controlled naturally through the diet without the necessity of medication in many instances.

She added that the proof is in the massive improvements her patients have seen in their weight and health when they start livin' la vida low-carb.

"Giving them control over their diabetes by giving them the tools to eat in such a way that they require less medication" is an important advancement, Dr. Vernon contends in the interview.

I'll have to pick up her book.

Posted by Diabetologica at March 5, 2007 7:32 PM