Dimensions
153 x 211 x 33mm
Compelte Updated New Edition.
A major new update and revision of the ten million copy international mega-bestseller. 'Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution' is the top-selling diet/health book of recent years. It has remained on the 'New York Times' bestseller list for four years and has more than ten million copies in print in its three formats.
This completely updated edition is revised throughout with at least a third of it being new material, including tips to jump-start the program, delicious new recipes, new case studies, new information on how to do Atkins, and new studies that support the safety and efficacy of the Atkins Nutritional Approach.
Atkins blames carbohydrates for most cases of overweight - as well as for much fatigue, mental fog, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. A high-fat diet, he says, is harmful only when added to a high-carbohydrate diet. At times, he backs off and hedges, admitting, for example, that refined flour and sugar, not all carbohydrates, are the culprits, and even that the desserts he promotes should be limited to special occasions.
Still, heavy cream, butter, and cheese abound in his recipes; bacon and eggs are on his daily breakfast menu; and his program, especially the 14-day "induction diet" designed to induce ketosis, or fat-burning, turns all prevailing guidelines upside down. It will be interesting to see how this book does now that low-fat, high-carbohydrate eating has been so widely accepted by professionals and public alike.
Atkins claims success with his 25,000 overweight patients (who take an average of 30 nutritional pills a day along with the diet), and he scores a point or two against pro-establishment preconceptions among researchers, but he certainly doesn't prove that his is the healthier diet.
One of the most palatable weight-loss diets ever devised allows the reader to lose weight with a minimum of pain and keep it off with ease. The product of 18 years of experience and analysis, Dr Atkins has refined and expanded his thinking about weight loss, though his diet remains based on low-carbohydrate intake.
