http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110962,00.html
Ha! I knew it!
Atkins rumors
低CARB好象还有道理，高FAT则怎么听怎么违反常识。
Well, I read two articles on this topic and honestly, I don't know. 
The way his medical report got out was underhanded, and no one knows for sure how much he really weighted.
The Journal paper http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,, ... 68,00.html first reported:
The document, a report of external examination from the chief medical examiner's office in New York, also says that at his death Dr. Atkins weighed 258 pounds. .Dr. Atkins died in April last year at age 72 of a head injury from a fall on ice while walking to work. The report attributes the death to a "blunt impact injury of head." The report was sent to The Wall Street Journal by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that advocates a vegetarian diet and has long been critical of the Atkins approach.
Atkins Widow said:
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,, ... 07,00.html
According to his widow, Atkins developed a condition called cardiomyopathy about three years before his death. The cardiomyopathy, Veronica Atkins said, was caused by a viral infection, and not his diet. Before developing the condition, Atkins' "coronary arteries showed only minimal and clinically insignificant signs of coronary artery disease, consistent with what would be expected in a 69-year old man. Cardiomyopathy is a serious and progressive condition and was, I have been told, in Robert's case, caused by a viral infection. Though this condition significantly weakened his heart, its cause was clearly related to an infection and not his diet," his widow's statement said.
Times reported today both sides of the story as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/nyreg ... tkins.html
Responses to the report's release came quickly from Atkins quarters. Dr. Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council, a group of physicians who work as consultants to the Atkins organization, said the Journal article "was based on incomplete personal medical records that were illegally delivered to the newspaper in violation of federal law."
He said Dr. Atkins did not have a history of heart attack, nor was he obese. He said that Dr. Atkins weighed 195 pounds the day after he entered the hospital following his fall, and that he gained 63 pounds from fluid retention during the nine days he was in a coma before he died. Dr. Trager said Dr. Atkins did have cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease that was probably caused by a virus, not by what he ate. While Dr. Atkins had an episode of cardiac arrest the year before his death, Dr. Trager said, he was unaware that he had had any history of heart attack.
The other side said:
Dr. John McDougall, a member of the Physicians Committee and an internist who had debated Dr. Atkins, said there was no doubt that Dr. Atkins had lost weight after his cardiac arrest, but before that was a different story. "I knew the man," he said. "He was grossly overweight. I thought he was 40 to 60 pounds overweight when I saw him, and I'm being kind."
As for the buildup of fluids in his final days, he said, "I never heard of anyone gaining 60 pounds of fluid in nine days." He said he suspected that Dr. Atkins was unable to follow his own diet. Dr. McDougall agreed that the diet produced weight loss, but said he considered it extremely unhealthy and hard to follow.
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The way his medical report got out was underhanded, and no one knows for sure how much he really weighted.The Journal paper http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,, ... 68,00.html first reported:
The document, a report of external examination from the chief medical examiner's office in New York, also says that at his death Dr. Atkins weighed 258 pounds. .Dr. Atkins died in April last year at age 72 of a head injury from a fall on ice while walking to work. The report attributes the death to a "blunt impact injury of head." The report was sent to The Wall Street Journal by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that advocates a vegetarian diet and has long been critical of the Atkins approach.
Atkins Widow said:
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,, ... 07,00.html
According to his widow, Atkins developed a condition called cardiomyopathy about three years before his death. The cardiomyopathy, Veronica Atkins said, was caused by a viral infection, and not his diet. Before developing the condition, Atkins' "coronary arteries showed only minimal and clinically insignificant signs of coronary artery disease, consistent with what would be expected in a 69-year old man. Cardiomyopathy is a serious and progressive condition and was, I have been told, in Robert's case, caused by a viral infection. Though this condition significantly weakened his heart, its cause was clearly related to an infection and not his diet," his widow's statement said.
Times reported today both sides of the story as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/nyreg ... tkins.html
Responses to the report's release came quickly from Atkins quarters. Dr. Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council, a group of physicians who work as consultants to the Atkins organization, said the Journal article "was based on incomplete personal medical records that were illegally delivered to the newspaper in violation of federal law."
He said Dr. Atkins did not have a history of heart attack, nor was he obese. He said that Dr. Atkins weighed 195 pounds the day after he entered the hospital following his fall, and that he gained 63 pounds from fluid retention during the nine days he was in a coma before he died. Dr. Trager said Dr. Atkins did have cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease that was probably caused by a virus, not by what he ate. While Dr. Atkins had an episode of cardiac arrest the year before his death, Dr. Trager said, he was unaware that he had had any history of heart attack.
The other side said:
Dr. John McDougall, a member of the Physicians Committee and an internist who had debated Dr. Atkins, said there was no doubt that Dr. Atkins had lost weight after his cardiac arrest, but before that was a different story. "I knew the man," he said. "He was grossly overweight. I thought he was 40 to 60 pounds overweight when I saw him, and I'm being kind."
As for the buildup of fluids in his final days, he said, "I never heard of anyone gaining 60 pounds of fluid in nine days." He said he suspected that Dr. Atkins was unable to follow his own diet. Dr. McDougall agreed that the diet produced weight loss, but said he considered it extremely unhealthy and hard to follow.
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无碳水化合物的理论也不是Dr. Atkins发明的，十九世纪就有人这么讲了，不过那时候还没有那么多胖子，也不可能这么红就是了。Atkins diet 之所以流行，主要是因为它见效快，头两个礼拜能掉十几二十磅，而急于求成正是迎合普遍人的心理。
只要没有基因缺陷，普通人照老方子过日子肯定没事--什么都吃一点，多运动一点，就得了。问题是现在大家坐办公室的多，越来越懒，吃饭习惯却一点没变，加上物质丰富，饭馆快餐都拼命加油加糖（好吃啊），大家吃东西没有节制。
现在科学界基本上知道人之所以会得肥胖症，一个是热量摄取大于支出，一个是饱足感的feedback mechanism先天有缺陷。
只要没有基因缺陷，普通人照老方子过日子肯定没事--什么都吃一点，多运动一点，就得了。问题是现在大家坐办公室的多，越来越懒，吃饭习惯却一点没变，加上物质丰富，饭馆快餐都拼命加油加糖（好吃啊），大家吃东西没有节制。
现在科学界基本上知道人之所以会得肥胖症，一个是热量摄取大于支出，一个是饱足感的feedback mechanism先天有缺陷。
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啤酒是液体面包!
A number of different issues:
1. Glycemic index. Complex carbohydrates are slowly broken down into simple glucose in blood, thus are less likely to cause pronounced spike in insulin, which is often blamed by EVERYONE for causing fat storage. Glycemic index is an indicator of how quickly a food item causes insulin surge.
2. To lose weight, the fundamental issue is still calories in vs. calories out. One can eat all red meat and still gain weight if more calories are taken in than expended. It's really that simple. However, if one is concerned more about nutrition than weight loss, then what one should eat gets more complicated. Again, balance and diversity are the only proven approach that is good for humans.
3. National Acadamy of Science recently released a report indicating that there is no hard science to support the recommendation of drinking 8 cups of water. They found that the average American take in enough water if they just drink whenever they feel thirsty. However, they also found that the average American intake is way too high in sodium and too low in potassium. People are recommended to drink water when they are on diet because they lose mostly water in the inital phase, regardless of the type of diet.
4. I have a knee-jerk aversion to the word "diet" because I don't believe any temporary lifestyle modification is useful and good. My brother in law has been off and on diets for most of his life, and he has never been able to fully gain control of his weight. I think it's terrible. Anyone who thinks he can go on a diet for six months and be fit for the rest of his life is deluding himself. It requires a life-long modification of habits.
1. Glycemic index. Complex carbohydrates are slowly broken down into simple glucose in blood, thus are less likely to cause pronounced spike in insulin, which is often blamed by EVERYONE for causing fat storage. Glycemic index is an indicator of how quickly a food item causes insulin surge.
2. To lose weight, the fundamental issue is still calories in vs. calories out. One can eat all red meat and still gain weight if more calories are taken in than expended. It's really that simple. However, if one is concerned more about nutrition than weight loss, then what one should eat gets more complicated. Again, balance and diversity are the only proven approach that is good for humans.
3. National Acadamy of Science recently released a report indicating that there is no hard science to support the recommendation of drinking 8 cups of water. They found that the average American take in enough water if they just drink whenever they feel thirsty. However, they also found that the average American intake is way too high in sodium and too low in potassium. People are recommended to drink water when they are on diet because they lose mostly water in the inital phase, regardless of the type of diet.
4. I have a knee-jerk aversion to the word "diet" because I don't believe any temporary lifestyle modification is useful and good. My brother in law has been off and on diets for most of his life, and he has never been able to fully gain control of his weight. I think it's terrible. Anyone who thinks he can go on a diet for six months and be fit for the rest of his life is deluding himself. It requires a life-long modification of habits.
简单CARB吃进去,迅速分解成GLUCOSE.血糖一高,INSULIN马上猛增.身体收到储存的信号,点滴不漏全部存起来.而饿时要调用存起来的脂肪就不那么容易了.所以吃简单CARB,俗话就是"不顶饱".Jun wrote:A number of different issues:
1. Glycemic index. Complex carbohydrates are slowly broken down into simple glucose in blood, thus are less likely to cause pronounced spike in insulin, which is often blamed by EVERYONE for causing fat storage. Glycemic index is an indicator of how quickly a food item causes insulin surge.
我觉得现在提出这个Glycemic Index的概念是亡羊补牢.以前光顾着看卡路里了.上周五NBC的节目里,有个人举了个例子:美国人OBESITY的发展和推崇LOW FAT食物的时段是吻合的.如果确实,倒很有意思.
I can count the reasons for obesity with my eyes closed:
1. Abundance of foods, especially processed foods and advertisements pushing for increased consumption. And one reason why American food is cheap is the government subsidy of agriculture. Free trade and market economy my foot.
2. Dramatic reduction in physical labor. Most everyone is working indoors 8 hours a day.
3. Lack of public transportation and wide use of personal cars for transportation. Television and computers certainly do not help. A severely sedentary lifestyle.
All the fad diets became fad, because it is difficult, given the social circumstances and our instinct, to reduce caloric intake and increase physical activity. I don't think anyone would give up an office job for construction, or walk to the grocery store instead of driving.
1. Abundance of foods, especially processed foods and advertisements pushing for increased consumption. And one reason why American food is cheap is the government subsidy of agriculture. Free trade and market economy my foot.
2. Dramatic reduction in physical labor. Most everyone is working indoors 8 hours a day.
3. Lack of public transportation and wide use of personal cars for transportation. Television and computers certainly do not help. A severely sedentary lifestyle.
All the fad diets became fad, because it is difficult, given the social circumstances and our instinct, to reduce caloric intake and increase physical activity. I don't think anyone would give up an office job for construction, or walk to the grocery store instead of driving.
I agree. Eating and body shapes are no long about health and fitness any more in this mad mad world. Yet the more psychological baggage is associated with losing weight, the more people are incapable of making rational decision about eating. There is too much psychological eating and binging in the mix that only complicate the issues and make healthy lifestyle more difficult.
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