Atkins for Life (Random House Large Print) - Hardcover

Atkins, Robert C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375432442 ISBN 13: 9780375432446

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 2003

Synopsis

Outlines a low-carbohydrate eating program designed to encourage weight loss and improve health and provides two hundred menu plans with controlled carbohydrate counts and more than one hundred recipes.

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Review

It is bread and not butter that is the enemy in Dr. Atkins's popular and controversial low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet. In In Atkins for Life, he continues his decades-long crusade against low-fat eating. Atkins argues that low-fat meals are high-carbohydrate missiles, causing the body to produce excess insulin, which then produces fat, slows down metabolism, and tips the scale. Instead, he urges readers to stop counting calories and fat grams and start counting carbs to rev up their metabolism and burn fat as an energy source. The question of whether "ketosis," the fat meltdown he advocates, is healthy or harmful is a central question of this sequel to the bestselling Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution. Packed with recipes, menus, carbohydrate counters, and strategies for staying with the plan, this book is less clear than its predecessor. It veers back and forth between how to begin and how to maintain "a controlled carbohydrate lifestyle." It is also more promotional, with photos of satisfied slim folks and pitches for the branded Atkins products. Still, with its pages of testimonials and studies about weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and increased energy, it is hard to argue with Atkins’s results. He puts his proof in the pudding. --Barbara Mackoff

From the Author

Robert C. Atkins, M.D., was the founder and medical chair of The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City. More than 16 million copies of his bestselling books are in print and he is the author of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution and Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet Revolution, as well as many other highly successful health books. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Dr. Atkins received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Large Print
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375432442
• ISBN 13: 9780375432446
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608