Some people have said that, at best, it should only be used for 6 months max since it is so high in fat and protein and so low in carbs. I've heard others (not doctors) say that it is perfectly healthy to make low-carb your permanent way of eating for the rest of your life. What's the truth here? If someone spends several years doing low-carb will they eventually have heart trouble or any other medical trouble relating to the diet?

The low carb diet is a life style change… the high protein and high fat is a misconception since you body naturally prevents you from eating too much on this diet…

I suggest you go to your local library and find the follow-up book, Atkins for Life… this have life examples of how at-risk individuals turned their health issues around with a low carb diet and adopted it in their lives…

This video is the second half of the Atkins Diet Misconception: Diabetes series. If you have not seen Part 1, please watch it here:

The last video dealt with case ing the existing treatment or recommendations to follow a high carb diet managed with ever increasing doses of insulin. This video deals with the evidence for rather managing it with a low carb lifestyle. There are two great studies for advocating this method.

1:) Dietary carbohydrate restriction in type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome: time for a critical appraisal
Nutrition and Metabolism(Lond) 2008; 5: 9.
Numerous authors including Richard Bertstein, Mary Vernon, Jeff Volek, Eric Westman

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2359752&tool=pmcentrez

Conducted Multi-center trial in which 63 obese men and women were randomly igned to either diet, 21 Low Carb, 21 Control, 21 High Carb for a one year study.
This discussion focuses on type 2 diabetes but many of the principles will apply to metabolic syndrome and possibly to type 1 as well[6,7].
1. Carbohydrate restriction improves glycemic control, the primary target of nutritional therapy and reduces insulin fluctuations.
2. Carbohydrate-restricted diets are at least as effective for weight loss as low-fat diets.
3. Substitution of fat for carbohydrate is generally beneficial for markers for and incidence of CVD.
4. Carbohydrate restriction improves the features of metabolic syndrome.
An important idea guiding current medical thinking is that clustering of seemingly disparate physiologic states, obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension, termed metabolic syndrome (MetS) suggests a common underlying cause. A recent review showed that carbohydrate restriction improves all of these markers[24].
5. Beneficial effects of carbohydrate restriction do not require weight loss. It’s not simply a weight loss argument or due to people losing weight do they achieve the benefits.

2.) Low-carbohydrate diet in type 2 diabetes: stable improvement of bodyweight and glycemic control during 44 months follow-up
Jörgen V Nielsen email and Eva A Joensson email

http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/5/1/14

Conclusion:
There is now little evidence for the claim that a fat-reduced diet for weight reduction has any particular value beyond caloric counting [10]. Current dietary recommendations seem to be a major part of their problem rather than being part of the solution. Carbohydrate restriction, however, reverses or neutralises all aspects of the metabolic syndrome [20,21].

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Please go to my favorites and watch part 1 and 2!!!

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I don't eat a lot of meat, but I eat some. I love fish.

I'm looking for a healthy cookbook that incorporates lots of fruits and veggies and whole grains. And has breakfast, lunch and dinner items.

Nothing too drastic (i.e. no carb, low-fat, etc.)

Just a plain healthy lifestyle cookbook.

try asian or specifically japanese cookbooks, especially since you like fish

you can get some good deals on "bargain" cookbooks at borders, for example

The ever-present LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com blogger Jimmy Moore and PMSing yet still so adorable wife Christine talk about how to handle the cravings that naturally come on when you start the low-carb lifestyle. When it comes to cravings, there are two kinds: that feeling that you want something high-carb and/or sugary when you are in the midst of a weight loss effort and the intense feeling that women feel during their special time of the month when biting the head off of the men they love is …

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