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Old Wed, May-28-08, 10:58
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I'm not a fan of Atkins - too much soy and processed products and too restrictive.
I agree with the restrictive part but the soy and processed products are simply people's choices, not Atkins.

I see only 2 problems with Atkins. One is the assumption that if you eat LC then you are eating enough protein, and if you look at what many Atkins followers eat they are eating far less protein that is required to prevent muscle wasting no matter who's recommendations you go by. The second problem is that in later versions of his book Atkins decided to give some generic restrictions for how carbs are added back into the diet as one progresses towards maintenance. A better way, in my opinion, would have been to describe how to know if a particular food or group of foods is an issue, rather than saying "do this today then do that next week."
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