Man sues Atkins empire- diet is unhealthy!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
True, of course I was referring to those who just diet and don't exercise. You know there are people like that, don't you ;0

Yeah, my sister

/me looks for incoming shoes

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
first things first, I need rid of these extra pounds. Plus I have a tendency of falling off the wagon wrt exercising. Pure laziness, but the summer brings more workouts, nothing on TV and a gym within half a block (at my apt. complex, a decent all around 24 hour facility, in door pool, racquetball, free )

Swimming is an excellent exercise. Trains both muscles and the cardiopulmonary system at the same time.

[King of Rasslin]

Vegetarians tend to be furry, live in trees, and live to be about 40 years of age. They are usually hunted and killed for their meat, called bushmeat, or die of disease resulting from their poor diet. Their brains are small: how challenging is it to pick fruit from a vine? They spend their meaningless lives hunting for berries and nuts.

Meat eaters are healthy and strong, live in cities, and have been known to live past 100 years. They are the hunters. They create beautiful art, music, and a unique culture that no other animal can compete with. Their brains are large and their thinking crafty, developed for hunting. They spend their meaningless lives posting on Apolyton.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


I'm not registering on Counterglow. It's bad enough I'm addicted to Poly. Let her come register here.

Coward.

Use Theben's handle.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger Swimming is an excellent exercise. Trains both muscles and the cardiopulmonary system at the same time.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by King of Rasslin
Vegetarians tend to be furry, live in trees, and live to be about 40 years of age.

Originally posted by King of Rasslin
Meat eaters are healthy and strong, live in cities, and have been known to live past 100 years.

Actually, meat eaters tend to have shorter natural life spans than veggie eaters.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Stem cells can cure diabetes and more

Stem cells

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by King of Rasslin
Vegetarians tend to be furry, live in trees, and live to be about 40 years of age.... Their brains are small: how challenging is it to pick fruit from a vine?

Meat eaters are healthy and strong, live in cities... They create beautiful art, music, and a unique culture that no other animal can compete with. Their brains are large and their thinking crafty, developed for hunting.

Funny that, I always thought it was the development of agriculture that was attributed to the rise of modern civilization.


No, if you want to attribute human traits to meat-eating, you'd have better luck looking towards war, rascism, and misogyny.

[Datajack Franit]

Vegetarians tend to be furry, live in trees, and live to be about 40 years of age. They are usually hunted and killed for their meat, called bushmeat, or die of disease resulting from their poor diet. Their brains are small: how challenging is it to pick fruit from a vine? They spend their meaningless lives hunting for berries and nuts.

That was awesome

[Datajack Franit]

This thread is very interesting and I'd like to try the diet by myself and eventually come up with the results.. any suggestion? Oh and I can read the site by myself so motivate me with else

[gunkulator]

Here is some research in support of Atkins. Like most research, these tend to be narrowly focused. I challenge Atkins-bashers to post similar published research in support of their views.

Comparing low fat and low carb, a Duke University study.
Another one, a University of Cincinnati study
And another, a University of Pennsylvania study
Low-carb and cholesterol, a Mayo Clinic study

There are many many more. I invite people to investigate for themselves what actual research has discovered instead of just taking some person's opinion on the matter. Frankly, one of the things that attracted me to the Atkins diet in the first place was the extensive bibliography of cited research. How many other diets have anything even close to this?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by King of Rasslin
Vegetarians tend to be furry, live in trees, and live to be about 40 years of age. They are usually hunted and killed for their meat, called bushmeat, or die of disease resulting from their poor diet. Their brains are small: how challenging is it to pick fruit from a vine? They spend their meaningless lives hunting for berries and nuts.

Meat eaters are healthy and strong, live in cities, and have been known to live past 100 years. They are the hunters. They create beautiful art, music, and a unique culture that no other animal can compete with. Their brains are large and their thinking crafty, developed for hunting. They spend their meaningless lives posting on Apolyton.

The largest of the primate relatives of our ancestors, australopithicus robustus, was a vegetarian, and quite large and healthy.

The earliest civilizations existed almost exclusively on vegetarian diets (the average Sumerian ate only bread and onions). Meat was eaten only very rarely, and solely as a religious practice. These civilizations were thriving while meat-eating barbarians were stuck stinking up the backwaters of the world.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
You lose more weight on Atkins to begin with as you are losing muscle mass as well.

Not true. You're losing water bound up with glycogen (?), about ten pounds or so. Generally within the week you switch to ketosis and start burning fat. You only burn muscle when you are starving (which you are not doing on Atkins) or have run out of fat to burn (like a long distance runner) and you only lose muscle from not excercising, unless you have a disease.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by gunkulator
Here is some research in support of Atkins. Like most research, these tend to be narrowly focused. I challenge Atkins-bashers to post similar published research in support of their views.

Comparing low fat and low carb, a Duke University study.
Another one, a University of Cincinnati study
And another, a University of Pennsylvania study
Low-carb and cholesterol, a Mayo Clinic study

There are many many more. I invite people to investigate for themselves what actual research has discovered instead of just taking some person's opinion on the matter. Frankly, one of the things that attracted me to the Atkins diet in the first place was the extensive bibliography of cited research. How many other diets have anything even close to this?

Your challenge has been delivered.

[The Mad Monk]

...and, believe me, it wasn't easy.

[asleepathewheel]

Do you actually have your own thoughts on this MM, or are you just a parrot?