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What Are Net Carbs?
When you follow the Atkins diet, aka the Atkins Nutrition Approach, you actually count grams of net carbs, which represent the total carbohydrate content of the food minus the fiber content and sugar alcohols (if in the product). The net carbs number reflects the grams of carbohydrate that significantly impact your blood sugar level and Read More
Eating the Right Carbs
Carb Substitutes, Selecting the Right Carbs As you move through the four phases of Atkins, the trick is to increase your intake of carbohydrates that are unprocessed and full of nutrients. One of the biggest misconceptions about the Atkins approach is that it cuts out all carbohydrates. On the contrary, Atkins emphasizes the consumption of Read More
How to Do Pre-Maintenance, Part 2
It may take some time to fine-tune your Critical Carbohydrate Levels for Losing and Maintaining. Slowing weight loss while still preserving the forward momentum of Pre-Maintenance does not always happen smoothly. If, after an incremental increase, you find that you are gaining or are not losing and you are not yet at your goal weight, Read More
High Glycemic Diet and Cancer: More evidence for a connection
It’s certainly not news to readers of the Atkins Advantage Newsletter that we at Atkins are no fans of sugar. Far more damaging to the body than fat, sugar is responsible for a host of ills ranging from depressing the immune system to increasing the risk for acne and cavities. And much more seriously, a Read More
Myths vs. Reality: Lowering Cholesterol with a Low Carb Diet
Despite all the research to the contrary, Atkins® low carb diet can be an effective solution to lowering cholesterol. Five hundred years ago, individuals believed the opposite as Atkins allows dieters to consume saturated fats. This mindset belongs to a generation that grew up with the message that eating eggs, meat, and shellfish raises your Read More
What is good for your brain and your heart?
According to Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, exercise actually helps the regeneration of damaged brain circuits. And according to new research from Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, a sustained exercise program may also help slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. If started early enough in life, exercise might Read More
The Saturated Fat Paradox
Even Atkins advocates who totally get it that the fear of fat is unfounded on a low-carb diet might still have some concerns about eating saturated fat. As a reminder, saturated fat is any fat that remains solid at room temperature, including butter and most animal fats, as well as coconut and palm oil. After Read More
The Role of Carbohydrate Restriction in Reducing Cardiac Risk Factors
One in five adults has some form of cardiovascular disease (1). A recent flood of clinical research suggests that the time for re-evaluating nutritional recommendations for bringing heart disease under control may be well overdue. It is a known fact that carbohydrates increase triglyceride levels. Triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL (“bad”) and HDL (“good”) cholesterol are Read More
Reduce Carbs, Cut Heart Disease
Over the years, the long-term Harvard Nurses’ Health Study has provided results that support some of the premises upon which Dr. Atkins has based his philosophy. Now research from the Harvard School of Public Health shows the significance of differentiating between carbs based upon their rating on the glycemic index to reduce risk of coronary Read More
Low Carbohydrate Diets Improve Atherogenic Dyslipidemia Even in the absence of weight loss
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/3/1/24 Read More
