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Follow the Dr Atkins' Diet and forget counting calories. Watch the fat melt away as a healthier and firmer body emerges. Enjoy more energy as well as freedom from a range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease. Essentially a low carbohydrate plan, the Atkins' Diet boosts your metabolic rate and once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. Dieting can work, and with this medically proven regime you can lose weight without reducing - or counting - calories. On the Atkins' Diet you can: -Eat luxuriously and feel completely satisfied -Experience the metabolic boost the Atkins' Diet provides -Use a maintenance diet that will ensure you never become fat again -Enjoy mouth-watering, gourmet recipes. In this new edition the world's number one diet expert has updated his proven program for a new century to include; new controlled carbohydrate recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner; brand new case studies and the very latest scientific research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6796 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-02
• Format: Collector's Edition
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

About the Author
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.

Excerpted from Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution: The No-hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss Plan That Really Works! by Robert C. Atkins. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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!

Customer Reviews

The easiest diet I have ever done!
I hadn't really tried other diets as a low-fat no cheese or any food without any taste really didn't do it for me. This book doesn't have a magic wand as such but if you follow it then you are sure to loose the weight. In just one and a half months I have lost 21lb. I was 12 stone, 5ft 8inches, not exactly excessively over weight but just enough to make me self concious and unhappy. I can now follow this diet with an ease that I thought would never be possible. Thats everything from day-to-day through to eating out which I do about 3 times a week. I never told anyone that I was dieting and when I met up with friends that I hadn't seen for only a few weeks, their reaction was fantastic and this kept me going. One downfall, you have to buy a whole new wardrobe! Since I have been on this diet, I have read alot about carbohydrates and the conclusion I have drawn is frightening. We really are being had by the food industry, low-fat diets and, dare I say it, the government and their healthy living guide lines. This diet won't be for everyone, but I can confidently say that it is quite remarkable. The book itself can be long winded, although some of the analagy's were interesting. I still haven't finished it as I have used it as a barometer and guide not necessarily as my "bible". Take what you think is relevant to you, follow it for the first two weeks, which are quite tough when you realise how much carbohydrates (which is essentailly sugar with hardly any nutritional value) are in the food you have always thought were healthy for you. After the two weeks you can follow this instinctively. Believe me, if you do follow it pretty much to the letter for the induction weeks, you will be absolutely amazed. This diet is not new, Audrey Hepburn followed something similar, this book just re-educates you on how to eat the right foods with no stipulation on quantity and lots of ideas on how to keep it interesting, and more importantly, tasty! Two weeks is no time at all to try this and see the results for yourself. You will then be sure to follow it forever.

Fantastic
I remember reading these very reviews prior to starting the Aktins Diet, and being encouraged by all the positive remarks on the book. I started 'doing' Atkins in January this year, and after 6 months I'd lost 4 stone in weight. I'm now a normal slim weight, having been overweight for most of my life. People don't recognise me, and I'm much happier than ever before. For those who knock the diet: it works. Like any diet, it can be hard work and takes a lot of self discipline, but the rewards are fantastic. No negative side affects for me at all. I've now moved on to a more general lower carb diet, where I eat a lot of things banned during induction. Just a little bit of knowledge about what you're eating goes a long way, and I'm perfectly confident that a lower crab lifestyle is easy to maintain.

30 years of guilt, shame, food cravings and weight problems
I started being interested in the low-carb diet 18 months ago, and finally found this book following a newspaper report of a man who had shed stones on the plan.

I started 5 weeks ago, since when I have lost a stone, and, more importantly (for me) 3.5 inches from my waist! I have been seriously overweight since I was * (I'm 38 now) I promised myself no more diets, but read the book, which made perfect sense to me, then took the plunge..

I must admit, the first 3 days WERE HELL! The nearest thing I have been through was giving up smoking...However, I am losing weight, I eat loads of stuff I used to feel guilty about, and my head is clearer. My skin tone has improved, and I NO LONGER TORTURE MYSELF by starting to eat as late in the day as possible ( before, once I started, it was difficult to stop...constantly hungry and snacking) Writing this, I've just realised that I no longer get the urge to snack!! BIZARRE!

The book is easy-to-read, and Atkins makes more sense than any of the other "experts". Usually on a diet, I become irritable, hungry, constantly think about food, and genuinely struggle to lose weight even when strictly following the diet. Not so with this, and I can't describe how much better I feel....