[extropy-chat] Atkins Diet Change

[Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc.]

About 27 years ago my wife , before I knew her,  was on the atkins diet.  She
said she had to stop it because it turned her into a "mindless blitzed zombie
space cadet".
This was not complementary with getting grades at University.

Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> Mike Lorrey wrote,
> > --- Harvey Newstrom <mail at harveynewstrom.com> wrote:
> > > The promoters of the Atkins diet finally acknowledge that Atkins
> > > dieters need to cut back on meat and saturated fats.
> >
> > Please be more accurate, as you are below. They say that you
> > get better results if you don't eat as much RED meat.
>
> Oops, I missed this comment and didn't respond before.
>
> Yes, Mike is right, they said "red meat", not just meat.  The emphasis was
> specifically on getting too much fat and especially too much saturated fat
> on the Atkins diet.
>
> My point was that many Atkins dieters claimed they could eat all the fat
> they wanted without problem.  The Atkins organization now specifically
> disclaims this, saying that Atkins dieters should keep fats less than 20% of
> calories.  They say that the diet does not allow one to eat more fats, and
> even claim that Atkins and the diet never advocated eating a lot of fat.
>
> The main problem with meat today is the way farm factories create fattened
> animals.  Animals in the wild ate less, exercised more, and were much leaner
> than today's versions of meat.
>
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