Will the Atkins Diet raise your Cholestorol?
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no, but it raises your bacon bill
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Take a close look at your food labels.\n\nFoods that are high in saturated FATS will be processed by your liver and converted into CHOLESTEROl when you eat it.\n\nFoods that contain CHOLESTEROL are digested and are more likely to elevate your TRIGLYCERIDE levels in your bloodwork.\n\nOf course, eating foods full of fats and calories of any kind will tend to cause you to gain weight and increase both triglycerides and choesterol levels, but in general the above is true.
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nope - they can be of total normal weight. High Cholesterol has two major reasons : What you eat and what you inherited, what is in your genes. \n\nOnce major source of Cholesterol is actually not what you eat but it is the body itself, it produces Cholesterol. There are some foods out there which trigger that production (saturated fats), others which absorb and remove it (fibers) and foods which add or not cholesterol. \n\nThere is lots of advice out there in books, on the web but it seems from a dietary standpoint the best is to\n1. Add a lot of fiber to your diet (Oatmeal bran, Psyllium, eat veggies, fruit....)\nFibers can absorb Cholesterol in the intestines and transport it out before it is going into the bloodstream. \n\n2. Change the diet to eat fish instead of meat. The different types of fat in fish improve the ratio of good cholesterol to bad in a posiitive way. Many say tha this ratio is more important than the total value. \n\n3. Reduce animal products  in your diet, reduce saturated fats (cream, whole milk, red meat, fat meat).  \n\n4. Then there are foods which have high cholesterol, avoid those: Eggs, shrimp, mussels, crab, lobster...\n\n5. And finally - work out regularly. \n\nAnd furthermore - there have been publications in the meantime about the fact that it is not necessarily High cholesterol levels what clogs arteries. It is rather an inflammation on the arterial inner walls and because of that cholesterol settles down there. Not sure how correct those studies are. \n\nHowever - the body needs some cholesterol and therefore it is able to produce it. \nMy boyfriend went on a choelsterol free diet (he even substituted all fish and meats with soy products). At  first the C- levels dropped and then they started rising again. \n\nAnd also interesting - once he added fish in his diet at least the ratio of good to bad cholesterol improved a lot. \n\nAnd as a last workd - if it is possible for you to drop your weight and your cholesterol with natural means then try by all means. The pills to treat it are not just expensive but also can have side effects and need to be taken a whole life long.
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My wife lost almost 100 pounds on Atkins.  The first 3 weeks were tough, but then she had an easier time.  If you go on Atkins, buy the book and follow Dr. Atkins advice to the letter.  It's not a cheap diet.  It's very dangerous if you don't take all the proper vitamins, etc.  She lost 30 to 40 pounds in the first couple of months.  It was amazing.  I feel like the luckiest man in the world - I have a new, more beautiful, happier, healthier wife.
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I recommend the South Beach Diet. It was designed by a cardiologist, and is good at teaching you about good carbs/bad carbs and good fats/bad fats. It's very effective (you lose 10-12 pounds the first two weeks), but it's not unhealthy like the Atkins diet. \n\nI use South Beach regulary, and have lost weight and kept it off. I also eat much more healthily now.
1183203
hi protein, low carb.  eat less than 20 carbs a day for two weeks and you will drop more than 10 pounds.  be careful and dont do this for more than two weeks.  it is hard on your body to process the protein.  \n\nthis diet is the induction phase of the atkins diet.
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All that kind of diet will do is lead to hypoglicemia.  If you want to gain weight, you should focus on eating a healthy diet with higher percentages of complex carbohydrates.  Don't skimp on the protien, but add a carb and/or an animal or soy-based fat (like whole milk) to each meal in addition to the standard sized portion.\n\nAgain, you want to avoid loading up on junk food, since your added calories will be stored as fat and will sap your energy.  You want to DEVELOP your body, not FATTEN it.\n\nYour best start is dairy.  Keep eating balanced meals and add in eggs, milk, and cheese where ever you can.
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I started the atkins diet once and carried on for six months.  I was a size 20 and after six months size ten.  \nNever had a problem with loose skin.  I had lost appetite whilst on the diet which meant it took me another to years to come back to a size twenty.\n\nI was contemplating going on the diet again but found out recently that eating red meat in large quantities has been proven to increase breast cancer.\n\nThe trick whenever u r dieting is to drink a minimum of three litres of water and u wont have a problem with loose skin and dont even bother with moisturisers, they dont even go skin deep, if u know what i mean!!!
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Despite popular opinion, dietary cholesterol does not elevate your cholesterol levels very much.  I eat 7 eggs a day and have been for years and my cholesterol level is low.  It's dietary fatty acids that cause an increase in plasma cholesterol levels.  Check out the link below for more info...
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lowering fat and sugar intake. increasing fibre intake (particularly psyllium husk). taking fish oil capsules. these will lower your cholesterol, not get rid of it.
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The Atkins diet is a high fat, low carb diet that was designed by Dr. Atkins, a heart surgeon.  Youcut out all sugars, breads, pastas, potatoes, basically any starch.  And eat only meats.  The fatty meats like pork, bacon, sausage and steaks are reccomended because they keep you full for longer.  Also Alchohol and artificial sweeteners are banned.  \n\n\nI know several people that lost weight on this diet, but Its certainly not for everybody.
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Atkins it is better aswell!
431095
Actually, I do not believe Atkins is a good diet to be on.  I've seen friends who lost a lot of weight on it, but then started developing weird body odors and constipation (among other problems) probably because of the excessive fat and protein they are taking in.  I believe that when you choose a "diet" to go on, be sure it is something that you can live with for the rest of your life.  Why not look into a healthy lifestyle that includes a balanced diet and a lot of exercise?
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You can continue to eat chocolate if you're prepared to make other sacrifices - cut down on other dairy products, switch to skimmed milk, use spreads instead of butter, cut out anything too fatty like sausages, bacon etc, don't eat anything fried, and no pastries/cakes etc.\n\nYou could add in things like porridge to your diet which help to bring down cholesterol, you can also drink those benechol drinks (expensive but effective), and you should increase your exercise which increases the levels of HDL, the "good" cholesterol and will thus decrease your good:bad cholesterol ratio.
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I have been on Atkins for over 2 years now. Totally love this way of eating. It isn't a diet however but one must decide before embarqing on this journey if they wish to stop their yo-yoing and finally find a solution to being over weight. It is possible you know but only if you read the book and decide this is a forever way of eating.\n\nIf you read his book you will suddenly realize how much sense he makes. It really works and it isn't boring.  I lost 50 pounds and have kept it off with ease and love the fact that I can go to my closet and get anything out of it and know it will fit. \n\nPlease do not start this without reading the book. It's not just about High protein and cutting out carbs. The induction is the strictest of the time of limiting foods. If you plan on going on this then going off once you lose you weight don't bother. You will gain it back.  But this can be said for all plans to lose weight.\n\nCheck out this website if you do plan on going on Low Carb regardless of which plan you choose.  \n\nhttp://www.lowcarbfriends.com  This site has been a godsend for me and my husband who by the way lost 80 and has kept it off. And we eat. If you just knew how much we eat you would  be shocked. No limiting portions, no worry about low fat tasteless foods, but just not eating high carb items. \n\nDo know however that all foods have carbs except meat. It about the high content of the carbs and how it affects the blood sugar.  Remember naturally white foods are ones to watch, potato's, rice, sugar, white flour etc. These are horribly high carb items plus corn (not a vege but a grain)
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Zone is the healthiest. Atkins and other such diets are really bad for you. I was able to get into peak condition in about 3 months of being on the Zone with regular exercise.
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You should see some already.  Are you peeing on the strips? If the strips are the right color you're losing weight.\nHOWEVER--although you can lose lots of weight fairly quickly on Atkins, as soon as you stop doing it and eat some carbs you'll gain it all back. I've only known ONE person who kept her weight off-and that's because she rarely goes off the diet. When she does eat sugar or flour, she gains weight right away so she immediately goes back on it.\nMy husband went from 260 down to 200 in 6 months. He looked great.  In the same amount of time, he's gone back to up around 235 after going back to his regular diet.  He went on it after a friend of his lost 90 pounds and another lost 50.  Both of them are back to their original weights if not higher too.