Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet: A Powerful New Dietary Defense Against Aging - Softcover

Atkins, Robert C.; Buff, Sheila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312977018 ISBN 13: 9780312977016

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001

Synopsis

Millions of people have slimmed down and improved their health with Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. Now Dr. Atkins delivers the next step toward a longer, healthier life.

Discover the powerful anti-aging program utilizing Dr. Robert C. Atkins' innovative nutritional ideas, combined with the latest research on exercise, vitamins, herbs, hormones, and other supplements. This safe, easy-to-follow regimen not only fights age-related illnesses like heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and diabetes, but also dramatically improves the way we look and feel as we age. In this indispensable age-defying guide, Dr. Atkins reveals:

How a low-carb, high-protein diet--rich in both natural and supplementary antioxidants--can significantly boost your immunity

Effective ways to decrease free radicals and increase blood flow to the brain--the key to enhancing mental functioning and memory

How to stabilize blood sugar levels to greatly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes

Why hormones keep us young--and how to prevent the hormone decline that comes with aging

Whatever your age, it's never too early to start living the Atkins way of life!

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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, M.D., is a cardiologist and the founder and medical director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City. He is the best-selling author of Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution, as well as many other highly successful health books. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he received his medical degree from Cornell Medical School. He lives in New York with his wife, Veronica.

Sheila Buff is a freelance writer specializing in medicine, nutrition, natural history, and the outdoors. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312977018
• ISBN 13: 9780312977016
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416