[Crimson Dynamo]

Doctors have reinvented the world's most famous diet. Now it's healthier, easier and works even better...

Since Dr Atkins launched the original low-carb diet in the Seventies, millions have tried it, lost weight, gained it again, and a fantastically lucrative worldwide low-carbohydrate industry has been born.

It reached its peak in the Nineties with Hollywood stars such as Renee Zellweger and Jennifer Aniston among its high-profile devotees.

But health concerns about the Atkins' focus on fat and meat at the expense of fruit and vegetables meant it was always considered contentious by diet experts, and although many people lost weight, few devotees were ever able to stick with its draconian restrictions for very long.

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[30stone]

My dad done atkins said he was allowed to eat something like 25 carbs a day..

No bread pasta potato or anything..

It was fish or chicken with salad.. lost loadsa weight on it, gave it up when someone died..

[Crimson Dynamo]

It is so much easier just to up what you burn off a week (exercise) than alter an ingrained eating pattern.

diets always end

[setanta]

Denying your body essential nutrients is a non starter for me. Everything in moderation, that's all that's needed, plus try to avoid as many processed foods and get your daily bit of exercise in. Simple.

[Twilight]

Originally Posted by setanta

Denying your body essential nutrients is a non starter for me. Everything in moderation, that's all that's needed, plus try to avoid as many processed foods and get your daily bit of exercise in. Simple.

This.

[Enid]

What a ****ing life. No pasta, no bread, no potato. Why give up something you enjoy for a ridiculous diet. You know what works? Less crappy food, more of the good stuff and a ton of exercise.

[30stone]

My dad done it because it was a well proven diet and he didnt have time to exercise.

At one point he was leaving for work at like 6:30 and not getting home til like 8pm every night..

Sometimes having to work on weekends to.

He goes gym usually but at the time it just wasnt practical.