Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet Revolution : Feel Great, Live Longer - Softcover

Robert C. Atkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091887739 ISBN 13: 9780091887735

Publisher: Vermilion, 2003

Synopsis

America's most trusted diet revolutionary, Dr. Robert Atkins, can help defy the aging process! As the Baby Boom generation enters into its mid-50s, aging -- and how to defy it -- becomes a primary concern for some 78 million Americans. Building on his more than 40 years of medical and nutritional experience, Dr. Atkins offers his know-how to readers wanting to learn how the unique Atkins program can help them reverse the aging process. They'll discover how to optimize nutrition, idealize hormone levels, rejuvenate aging organs, and maximize brain health. In addition, readers will learn how to help:
-- Prevent cardiovascular disease
-- Reduce the risk of many types of cancer
-- Prevent a stroke
-- Avoid adult onset diabetes -- or reverse its effects
-- Preserve brain functionDr. Atkins was the first to bring complementary and alternative medicine to the mainstream public. His millions of fans know that the Atkins program works -- and now he'll show them a new plan for living longer, better, healthier lives.

Dr. Atkins sells! Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and is one of the top 50 bestselling books of all time. Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution has topped the bestseller lists for almost three years with no end in sight.

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Review

Dump the food pyramid that the American Dietetics Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Cancer Society all implore you to follow for the sake of your health. Take antioxidant supplements (but skip most of the foods that naturally contain these nutrients). Eat a high-protein diet that has received the thumbs-down from major medical and nutrition experts and associations and has been deemed especially dangerous for women, as it depletes the body's calcium stores. If you believe that Dr. Atkins somehow knows better than all those experts and organizations, here's his latest--a plan to defy aging through eating a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, taking lots of supplements, optimizing your hormones, detoxifying your body through chelation therapy, exercising, and taking brain-boosters like ginkgo biloba. Free radicals, insulin resistance, sugar--these are the reasons we age, get sick, and get fat, insists Atkins, not dietary fat. Eggs are good for you. The cholesterol you eat does not affect the cholesterol in your blood, he says. He scoffs at "the unholy alliance among the American Heart Association, American Medical Association, American Diabetes Association, and U.S. government in its many manifestations (FDA, Department of Agriculture, NIH, et al.)." One wonders why Atkins thinks all these medical organizations would band together to promote an unhealthy diet and not herald Atkins as a genius if, indeed, he had the answer.

About the Author

Robert C. Atkins is the founder and medical director of the Atkins Centre for Complementary Medicine in New York City. A graduate of Cornell University, he went on to specialise as a cardiologist. Now one of the most recognised doctors for diet, nutritional and natural medicine, his books have been international best-sellers: his original Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution has sold over 10 million copies world-wide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vermilion
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091887739
• ISBN 13: 9780091887735
• Binding: Paperback