The Atkinson Diet..?!
Question: Is it any good..?.... i would like to lose about 2 stone... get down to a nice size 12.... thanks kim
Answers: Is it any good..?.... i would like to lose about 2 stone... get down to a nice size 12.... thanks kim
Do you mean Atkins? Yes it is very good. It gets a lot of bad press because people are lazy and do not do any research and think it is the bacon and meat diet. Quite the contrary!
Go to www.atkins.com
I also recommend getting the book and reading it before you start. Follow the diet the way it is intended. You will be shocked at the fruit and veggies your eating while doing Atkins.
"The man that created this diet regime died in his forties from a heart attack .After following the diet for many years his empire then went bust"
That is just sooooo wrong! People are so gullible they hear something and they think it's true...geez!
Around 2000, Atkins started to develop a heart condition, cardiomyopathy, which he claimed was unrelated to his diet. On April 18, 2002, Atkins suffered a cardiac arrest caused by an infection that spread to his heart muscle. At the time, Clyde Yancy, a cardiologist and member of the board of directors of the American Heart Association, was quoted as saying, "Despite the obvious irony, I believe there is a total disconnect between the cardiac arrest and the health approach he (Atkins) popularizes."
On April 8, 2003, Atkins slipped on ice and fell in front of his medical office in New York City and sustained major head injuries that put him in a coma. News of this quickly turned into rumors that Atkins had a heart attack while he was on his own diet. He never recovered from his injuries, and subsequently died on April 17 of kidney failure. Although it was illegal to do so, the New York City Medical Examiner