How can I lose weight ? How can I achieve healthy weight loss ? Well, as a matter of fact WALKING is simply THE Best Exercise to Lose Weight !! So come on now and walk with me, my friends! Breathe that fresh air in…. Love, Dan

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You can get people worried and anxious with the mere suggestion of following cooking low carb recipes routine or any other diet for that matter. Nobody wants to count what one is eating. But unfortunately we must, and have to do it. We should make it our daily habit. The best thing about Atkins’ Low Carb Recipes is you are allowed to eat stuff that you can’t imagine while undergoing a regular diet routine. You can eat eggs, shellfish, and lots of vegitables, cream, tea and coffee without milk, cheese, avocados, nuts, butter etc. Please also remember the stricts no-nos too while we are discussing all that we can eat. You can’t have fruits, potatoes, rice, pasta, and alcohol.

There are books published by Dr Atkins, which is full of interesting and easy to make Low Carb Recipes especially for people who’d like to follow the Atkins way of life. Atkins Diet recipes books are easy to get, and you can even order them online.

 A normal Atkins day-to-day diet will look like this: Breakfast may comprise Italian sausage frittata with a cup of herbal tea. Lunch that people ideally prefer is tuna salad with mixed leafy greens topped with some bacon. Again dinner can be bacon cheeseburger, cauliflower and broccoli, with fresh fruit kebobs and if you are used to munching snacks then visit any low sugar high protein snack/salad bar!

Celery is a food that is low in calories and it’s also said that it helps to prevent cancer. Celery, Avocado and Walnut salad can be a very delightful option plus good to taste.

The new report from the researchers and scientists may be pretty close to finding out and proving why low-carb recipes or low carbohydrate diet, such as the one developed and promoted by Atkins diet, are more effective than low-calorie diets. In a paper published in the Nutrition Journal, researchers from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, show that low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets can be expected to be more effective for weight loss than low-fat diets.

 There was a study conducted on Mexican women (the study was conducted on 1,866 of them) and it was found that women who got about 62 percent of their calories from carbohydrate were more than twice as likely to develop breast cancer compared to women whose carbohydrate intake was less than 52 percent. Including more Low Carb Recipes in your daily food is a far healthier option

 There are hundreds and thousands of Atkins recipes doing the rounds online. The secret  is to get organized. Prepare yourself in advance because tossing up atkins diet recipes is not going to be easy on a day to day basis. Being overweight is  hardly easy either. So instead of settling for the latter lets make peace with the former. And I am hardly trying to discourage you by saying it. I am trying to state facts without mincing words. Don’t let some vague surprises hit you on the face. The only surprise that you can be open to is the pleasant one – that you are losing weight and gaining self confident and good health. And Atkins Diet promises you that – if you follow them as per instructions. Atkins Diet recipes do what only Atkins Diet recipes can- Make you thin, fit, and happy. And all this with eggs, fish, butter……wow!

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Panelists evaluate the safety of low-carb diets as a means to lose weight.

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Many people are confused about how low carb diets work. It doesn’t make sense to them that you can eat more fat and protein than is traditionally called for and still lose weight.

A low carb diet plan greatly restricts the amount of carbohydrates you consume, as compared with a traditional North American diet, or even compared with a low fat diet. While our bodies would usually burn stored carbohydrates for energy, low carb eating forces the body to burn more stored fat instead. When this happens, your body produces chemicals called “ketones”. Ketones result when your kidneys convert fat to soluble waste. Getting your body to reach this point is one of the goals of a low carbohydrate diet.

There is a scientific reason behind the development of this diet. Dr. Robert Atkins first introduced the concept of eating a low carbohydrate diet in the 1970s. He noticed that primitive people consumed a diet of mostly meat, vegetables and some fruit.

Because this diet was in existence for thousands of years before the development of agriculture, Atkins concluded that the reason most people had difficulty losing weight and keeping it off is that we are eating contrary to the way our digestive system is set up. In other words, our bodies do not support eating wheat, barley and other grains and sugars.

In the 1990s the diet seemed to be rediscovered and became known as the Atkins New Diet Revolution. Since the reemergence of the Atkins diet, other low carb diets have been developed that are variations of it. The Zone Diet, the Stillman Diet, the Hollywood Diet, the Ketogenic Diet and the South Beach Diet are all based on the idea of eating fewer carbohydrates. They all advise eating more protein and limited carbs and inducing the body to burn its own fat.

Low carb diet plans differ somewhat in the amount of carbohydrates they allow, but all advise cutting out all white or starchy foods. The most strict is the 20 gram per day carb limit of the initial stage of Atkins, plus some of the other diet plans. The 20 grams is generally derived from salads and non-starchy vegetables, plus the trace amounts of carbs in sauces, dressings and cheeses.

In the first stages of a low carbohydrate diet, dieters are not allowed to have any milk, fruits, grains, cereals, pasta, breads or “high glycemic index” vegetables such as potatoes, peas, corn and carrots. The missing carbs are replaced with ample amounts of protein.

This is a very low amount of carbohydrate when compared with the large amounts of pasta and grains advised by traditional low fat diet recommendations, so this diet has become quite controversial. Butter is also included, which is another reason for the controversy over low carbohydrate eating plans. The butter is recommended because fat slows down the absorption of carbohydrates into the body and helps to maintain an even blood sugar level.

The whole idea behind Dr. Atkins original principal is that it we gain weight in our Western world because our blood sugar levels are allowed to go too high by eating too much high starch food. Control the carbohydrate levels and you control weight much more easily. Much research has shown this to be true. Of course opposing research has been done too, so the controversy continues to some extent, although it is generally acknowledged by all now that the high carb recommendations of the past were incorrect.

The great difficulty of any severely restricted diet is that most people can end up regaining much of their lost weight because of difficulty adhering to the restrictions over the long-term. This can ultimately result in rebound weight gain and is the reason that the modified versions of Atkins diet have evolved.

The Atkins diet itself though, does gradually increase the amount of carbohydrates you consume as you complete your weight loss, to avoid the extremes of losing then regaining weight. Is it right for you?

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Gene test claims to show you which diet works
Diet not working? Blame your genes. That’s the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb weight loss plan.

Looking back at the original study’s results, researchers saw that women whose diets matched their genetic makeup lost more than 13 pounds in a year compared to less than 3 pounds for women on mismatched diets, Nelson reported at a heart association conference this week.

Some scientists were unpersuaded. Sticking with a diet is more important than what diet you choose, as is not regaining weight, Eckel said.

“I have serious reservations with this study and studies like it,” Rodriguez agreed. “The idea that genetic variants in these genes can predict the likelihood for weight loss in such a small population, particularly since the tendency for weight loss is probably more behavioral than genetic, is simply hard to believe.”

However, one of the study participants, Jacqueline Gardner, 55, of Evergreen, Calif., does believe. She went from 200 pounds at the start of the study to 185, but was back to 200 pounds two years later.

“I now know why I gained it back,” she said — the gene test showed she does not metabolize carbohydrates well. More recently, she has been on a high-protein diet and weighs 180.

“I wish I had had a DNA test 10 years ago,” she said.

The researchers also tested themselves.

“It confirmed my suspicion,” Nelson said of her result. “When I eat a lot of carbohydrates, I tend to put on weight.”

Do we really need a gene test to tell us that?

“We were able to explain why some people were successful” and others were not, even though they ate the same way, said Mindy Dopler Nelson, a nutritional biologist at Stanford University who led the study but has no financial ties to the maker of the test.

Some scientists find this hard to swallow. It’s another test being peddled without enough research to show it really works, they say.

“I’m afraid this may be another attempt to lure the public into purchasing genetic tests that provide little value for those struggling with their weight,” said Raymond Rodriguez, director of the National Center of Excellence for Nutritional Genomics at the University of California, Davis.

The research shows “nothing that should move the American public out to get their genome tested,” said Dr. Robert Eckel, a former American Heart Association president and cardiologist at the University of Colorado-Denver.

But it sure has appeal.

Gene testing originally was aimed at finding risk for things like cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Lately, genes have been linked to things you might not suspect, such as stuttering or compulsive leg-jiggling.

The latest trend is to connect genes to lifestyle counseling, determining what type of diet or exercise is best. That’s what the maker of the new diet test hopes to do.

The company, Interleukin Genetics Inc., of Waltham, Mass., looked at studies on hundreds of genes and chose three genes that show a pattern for metabolizing fats and carbohydrates, said its chief scientific officer, Ken Korman.

The company then hired Stanford researchers to do a validation study of its $149 test, using people who took part in diet research that was published in 2007. That study tested four diets: Atkins (ultra-low-carb), the Zone (low-carb), Ornish (very low-fat) or a low-fat diet following the federal Food Pyramid.

AP medical writer Marilynn Marchione wrote this story

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