"Do you actually believe this shit or did you make it up as you went?"
So are you trying to tell me that Mc Donald's is a healthy place to eat?
If you've ever read up on healthy trends of using herbal supplements, you would know there are a LOT of benificial factors behind using them. Most of your nutrients are lost in today's processed foods, breads, cereals, pasta, junk foods. Not to mention pesticides as well as other chemicals thrown into fruits and veggies, which can cause the potential for free-radical build up.
There are supplements out there which are completely naturally occuring. It's synthetic supplements which give them a bad name. For example: The synthetic form of vitamin C, for example,(Ascorbic Acid) can actually thicken the arterial walls of the heart by as much as 2.5 times which can inevitably lead to heart disease.
Synthetic forms of vitamin A can increase the risks of cancer. Synthetic forms of vitamin E can also suck out essential absorbable nutrients the body needs.
There is nothing unhealthy about the Atkin's diet, if you follow through properly. I was on the Atkin's diet for a solid 2 months back in 2000 and lost 55 lbs in two months. The only thing about the diet was lack of energy, there was nothing dangerous about that. I simply had less energy than I usually did, because I eliminated my usual carbohydrate intake, which I am used to.
I didn't believe in the Atkin's thing either, my mom and my dad went on the diet in 1998 and had awesome results. I eventually tried going on it 3 seperate times between 1999 and 2002 and had awesome results each time.
It's the only diet that seems to work efficiently, but gets tiring after a while.
Health experts (usually the ones getting paid big bucks by the processed foods companies) are the ones attacking the diet. It's usually that same tiring old philosophy and ignorance behind the thought that consumtion of high saturated fats and proteins is stupid.
However there are some good fats out there as well, that they still fail to recognize, like Olive Oil, and OMEGA-3 Fatty acids, which are both poly unsaturated fats, and very good for you.
It's common sense that there are hundreds of billions of dollars put into processed foods, and it would only make sense for them to make up stories to insult the Atkin's diet.
I've for the longest time, have always believed in the Atkin's diet. It's quite possibly the best diet out there, and it's been around for MANY years.
It's just now that many people are pulling their heads out of their ignorant asses and are starting to realize how powerful the atkin's diet is.
Doctors continue to perscribe unpredictable medications to paitents, yet do you see the federal government stepping in to make sure these chemicals have no adverse side effects?
Do you see more and more popular companies rotating their crops, and using less pesticides, and less chemical fertilizers?
Do you see fast food companies getting taxed for their unhealthy food products, or un-super sizing their meals? Oh wait, Cigarettes kill people, I forgot, however, heart disease is one of the biggest killers in America, hahaha.
And you're insulting the best diet in the world? This diet should be the LEAST of your worries. Atkin's diet did this for me:
1. Lost about 55 lbs in two months. I went from 290 to about 230 lbs.
2. Had more energy after I finished my diet, then I had in a long time.
3. Lowered my triglycerides, glucose, significantly.
4. Lowered my blood pressure.
5. My acid reflux was completely eliminated.
6. I had more muscle. (didn't lose any during the diet)
7. My skin was clear, thus my body was de-toxified from all of the bad things I used to eat.
Right now I am sitting at about 285 and I am going back to the Atkin's diet next week, and plan on staying with it for longer, just to see how much I can lose. Once I got down to about 240 it slowed down, but once I cheated for 3 days, and went back on it, I quickly lost it and went down to 230ish, and have been off the diet ever since.
What I do to keep my weight from getting past 290 is I watch my calorie intake, its a bitch though, and I cheat often, which is why I am better off on the Atkin's diet. In 2002 I did let myself go till I got around 330 lbs, in three months I went from 330 to 245, that's like 85 lbs lost. Right now I range anywhere from 280-290, and I know of the best way to lose it all again, and that's to do the Atkin's way.
Don't dog on Atkins diet unless you actually try it.
I don't know what is so great about taking anabolic steroids either. Since there are a lot of chemically manufactured steroids, which have a chemical hormone property which makes it currently legal, until the FDA gets the chance to shut it down. Not only is taking steroids an obvious way to cheat, but it gives you an AZN-Length penis, but it also causes chronic depression as well. No thanks.