Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution [Mass Market Paperback]

Designed to catapult your body into a state of fat meltdown, Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution (and the accompanying Dr Atkins' Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook has taken America by storm. It targets insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. The bodies of most overeaters are continually in a state of hyperinsulinism; their bodies are so adept at releasing insulin to help convert excess carbohydrates to fat that there's always too much of the hormone circulating through the body. This puts the body into a bind; it always wants to store fat. Even when people with hyperinsulinism try to lose weight--especially when they cut fat but increase carbohydrate consumption--their efforts will fail. This is why Dr Atkins refers to insulin as "the fat-producing hormone".

Dr Atkins' diet is extremely low in carbohydrates, which helps to regulate insulin production and decrease circulating insulin; less insulin soon results in less fat storage and fewer food cravings. The diet is far from torturous, though--those who've tried it attest that hunger is not a part of this plan. Ninety per cent of Dr Atkins' patients--more than 25,000 of them--have experienced dramatic weight loss. --Karim Nanji, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A brand new edition of the American blockbuster diet that has sold over 10 million copies world wide and promises you need never go hungry --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution" offers not just weight loss, but total wellness designed for the overweight metabolism. You can eat the delicious meals you love, never count calories, enjoy a cheeseburger when you're hungry, see amazing results in 14 days, and reach your ideal weight...and stay there. The "New Diet Revolution" diet can help you reduce major health problems, including chronic fatigue, diabetes, and high blood pressure; can protect your heart; and show you why eating rich, delicious gourmet foods can be your path to permanent weight loss. Spectacular recipes from a world-famous chef are included. This updated edition includes valuable new information on supplements to help you achieve total wellness.

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 Diet Revolution has sold over 10 million copies world-wide. (20021018) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The Promise
Lose weight! Increase energy! Look great! This book will show you how it’s done.
Not only that, it will show you how to change your life once and for all.
You hold in your hands a book that has sold more than ten million copies since 1992. Probably two to three times that number of people have followed its teachings. Most of you will have heard people say it’s the most effective weight loss plan they’ve tried. It is!
If you’re like many people, you’ve been through the weight loss wars. Name it and you’ve probably tried it, whether it’s a low-fat diet, a food-combining diet, the grape-fruit diet, liquid fasts, other fad diets and on and on. You’ve learned how to count calories, but ultimately with no success. Even if you lost weight, you were often hungry and always felt deprived. Then when you went back to your old way of eating, those pounds crept back, often joined by a few more.
If this scenario sounds all too familiar, I have a solution that will help end the game of yo-yo dieting once and for all. Instead, I’ll help you adopt a permanent way of eating that:
• lets you lose weight without counting calories.
• makes you feel and look better.
• naturally re-energizes you.
• keeps lost pounds off forever with a new lifetime nutritional approach that includes rich, delicious foods.
But in addition to weight loss, there is an even more important benefit: The nutritional approach you’ll learn about here is also a revolutionary method for living a long, healthy life. I want my readers to say: "I knew I’d lose weight, but I never realized I would feel so much healthier."
The typical modern Western diet—or, as I sometimes call it, the high-sugar horrors—makes you fat. In the short term, it’s also a sure road to daily misery, making you irritable and tired during the day and sleepless at night. In the long term, it leads grimly on toward heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and a host of other catastrophes.
What I’m going to show you is not just a way to lose weight, but a way to eat for the rest of your life so you can be slim and healthy and stay that way. For too many people, the word diet implies not an approach to eating for a life-time, but a two-months-on, ten-months-off weight loss game that they play with themselves—year after year. That is not what this book is about! I believe this so strongly that from now on I’ll speak not of the Atkins Diet, but of the Atkins Nutritional Approach or "doing Atkins" or even just "Atkins". It’s a shorthand that others have been using, so I’m going to start using it, too.
The Atkins Nutritional Approach will make you healthy because it is different from the typical Western way of eating. Simply put, you avoid the negative consequences of too much carbohydrate intake, all of which can be attributed to too much insulin release in your body.
Would you like to see what I mean? Well, since they say one picture is worth a thousand words, how about two?
The Two Pictures

In the first picture, I am standing behind a huge table heaped with food. My expression is a mixture of pride and anticipation, and no wonder. There are mounds of seeds and nuts, platters of fish, a lobster in drawn butter, well-seasoned fish, turkey and duck and certainly a juicy steak. You’ll spy an omelette that would do any breakfast table proud. There’s no lack of variety here. I see vegetables in abundance, fresh green salads drenched in healthy olive oil-based dressing overflowing their bowls, and peeking out through the foliage, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries topped with whipped cream. There’s a variety of cheeses. And since this is a picture of the food you’ll be eating after you’ve lost your extra pounds and have reached the Lifetime Maintenance phase of Atkins, you will also notice a glass of wine, pan-fried sweet potatoes, a platter of melon and slices of peaches and plums. Finally, developments in creating low-carbohydrate substitute ingredients make it possible also to place a pleasing array of low-carb bread, cheesecake, ice cream and cookies on the groaning table.
It’s a mouthwatering spread, and I’m hovering over it with a hungry eye. To my mind, the food I’ve just envisioned is quite luxurious. If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I’m going to insist on teaching you otherwise. I equate healthy eating with gastronomic pleasure and, soon, you will too.
My second picture is of you. I’m very hopeful that it resembles the future you.
The you in this picture I’m conjuring up is finally the weight you’ve always had as your goal, or fairly close. You feel great—full of energy. Your skin is glowing with health. If you’ve been exercising, your toned muscles show it. The you in this picture isn’t worried about weight loss anymore. You no longer need to spend your time planning the stages of a new diet, constantly concerned about your eating, feeling guilty when you break promises you’ve made to yourself. After all, you’ve found a nutritional approach that will last you for a healthy and vigorous lifetime, and it’s become so natural you hardly have to think about it anymore. It’s second nature.
This is an obvious win-win situation. It offers you the pleasure of eating and the promise of being healthier than before. The major reason for turning it down would be skepticism. "How could anything be so perfect?" you might ask. If that’s it, here’s my answer: Read this book. When it’s all boiled down, what I’m going to show you in New Diet Revolution is how to eat what’s in the first picture and look just like the second.
Delicious eating and lifetime health. Not a bad bargain! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.