Listen to the Lowcarbshow.com weekly podcast podcast.com At lowcarbshow.com our goal is to offer good information to help you lose weight! Vincent Vegan and Marc Sage offer a weekly podcast discussing all of the ongoing things in the diet and weight loss world – we focus mostly on Low Carb and Vegetarianism but we discuss everything – here is something I found on the internet that I thought you guys might enjoy! The world’s most beautiful and famous have swallowed his advice. He wrote one of the biggest selling diet books of all time, and it was based on his extraordinary belief that you could eat as much as you desire and still lose weight. His name was Dr Robert Atkins, author of the Atkins new diet revolution. To some Dr Atkins was a hero, to others his diet was scientific heresy and potentially deadly. In a series of ground breaking experiments Horizon investigates the truth behind the most controversial diet in history. Does the Atkins diet really work and is it dangerous?

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   @runningman97 That’s pure BS and you know it

   Comment by talktalktalktalktalk — June 6, 2011 @ 11:44 pm

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   i’m leaving this documentary now! watching him throw away all that beautiful food while laughing got my blood boiling!

   Comment by MLivingbyaprayer — June 7, 2011 @ 4:46 pm

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   @12thehungryhippo By ancestors I mean our hunter-gatherer ancestors. 2 million years ago fruit was very different. There were no apples – or at least only one variety, found near Turkey – and fruit was a lot less sweeter than today (we’ve bred fruit to be how it is). Also, our ancestors could only eat a lot of fruit when it was in season. Which means they couldn’t eat it 24/7 like we can. Which is what I mean by SPARINGLY. And I’m sure they hunted more often than once every 2 weeks…

   Comment by l337z0r — June 10, 2011 @ 2:25 pm

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   @12thehungryhippo As I understand it, we modern humans share most (if not all?) of our genetic makeup with the humans that existed 2.5 million years ago during the paleolithic era.

   Comment by l337z0r — June 10, 2011 @ 3:00 pm

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   @12thehungryhippo We should eat the diet we’ve evolved to eat. That doesn’t include all these carbs found in grains and wheat and excess amounts of sugary fruits. We’ve evolved to eat meat, fruit (when in season) and nuts/seeds. It doesn’t matter what our ancestors were 2.5 million years ago – what does matter is that what they did back then still effects our genes – they came down from the trees and began to eat meat (eventually). That’s how it’s been for millions of years. End of story.

   Comment by l337z0r — June 10, 2011 @ 3:49 pm

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   @12thehungryhippo Maybe you can write a book about it someday. Get your degree first though.

   Comment by l337z0r — June 10, 2011 @ 4:03 pm

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   I tried a <10 g Carbs / day diet (all on my own) + Occasional cardio (walking 30min-1hour every other day). Went from 87kg to 68kg in 4months. The last 5kg went slowly, but theres still excess fat around my waist, now I started eating Carbs again, but limiting my kcal/day to 1.8kish. The only side effect was hemorrhoids when coming back to carbs (I suggest not going for more than 3months on a low carb diet in one stretch)

   Comment by blinkku — June 13, 2011 @ 3:27 pm

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   Brian….is a PIG . =)

   Comment by EatYourChimp — June 17, 2011 @ 8:14 pm

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   @ladybugrl buddy sorry to burst your bubble but vitamins have been a myth since the beginning. Haven’t you read about the eskimos who ate just pure meat and fat and they lived very healthy diets; degenerative disease didn’t even exist in them and they did’t eat a single fruit.

   Comment by Gideon359 — June 20, 2011 @ 1:52 am

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    I have to say that calories do count. There is no way you can eat all you want and lose weight but the good thing about a low carb diet is that it don’t make you hungry

    Comment by Gideon359 — June 20, 2011 @ 1:53 am

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    Im on this low carb diet although its not long term, just to burn off excess fat.

    It works a treat, but i wouldnt recommend it long term. Just when you get to your ideal weight, eat well

    Comment by Ingle92protege — June 21, 2011 @ 6:28 am

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    @ladybugrl u can eat fruit and get vitamins but you cant eat some fruits witch contain a lot of sugar. the most helthiest fruits and vegies are allowed

    Comment by ElinaMih123 — June 26, 2011 @ 9:54 pm

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    @ladybugrl multi vitamins, vegetables, general good, clean whole foods.

    Comment by bigbobabc123 — June 27, 2011 @ 11:20 pm

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    This documentary is so unnecessarily dramatic.

    Comment by Abercrombieindya — July 3, 2011 @ 7:56 pm

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    @Gideon359 That^s a myth.Eskimoes suffer alot from osteoporosis.The result of a high protein diet.There also not thin,but rather plump/fat looking & there complexion looks bad. There a very small group that lives in the harshest of climates & perhaps because of this, there genetics tolerate better this way of life but as mentioned above,there^s a consequence. Most people wouldn^t survive that diet.

    Comment by sumbarine — July 11, 2011 @ 6:09 pm

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    @l337z0r Our ancestors only lived 25-30 years 2.5 million years ago.As far as fruit goes today,Fruit still contains fibre which allows the sugar to be released slowly.That sugar provides energy for your muscle,brain & heart.That6s why on the tongue we have special receptors for sweets.Then there^s pectin in apples that fight heart disease,lychopene in watermelon that fights prostate cancer,Vitamin C that forms collagen that keeps the arteries elastic & not stiff. Vitamins E,A & anti oxidants

    Comment by sumbarine — July 11, 2011 @ 6:17 pm

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    @sumbarine The lifespan of our ancestors says close to nothing about their health. It was more to do with their living conditions. Thousands of years of technological progress has allowed for the lifespan we have today, e.g. warm, safe homes; healthcare; dental-care; regular and instant access to safe food and water etc. Our ancestors lived in a hostile world, and suffered for it. Anthropological records show they were much HEALTHIER than we are today, despite their lack of technology.

    Comment by l337z0r — July 11, 2011 @ 10:56 pm

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    @sumbarine As for fruits – yeah, they’re good. Although nowadays they are much more sugary (they’ve been bred to be as sweet as possible) than the varieties our ancestors had. Also, they only had seasonal access to fruit, unless they were lucky enough to live in certain (amazonian!) climates. Vegetables are typically a better source of vitamins and minerals than fruit, and they contain less carbs. Not saying fruit is bad though. It’s natural. How can it be bad?

    Comment by l337z0r — July 11, 2011 @ 10:59 pm

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    @l337z0r & one of those technological advances is that thru farming,pesticides & transaportation we can have countless healthy carbs at our disposal all year round. Apples,oranges,apricots,kiwis,plums,mangos all those anti cancer,anti heart disease,anti oxidant foods.

    Comment by sumbarine — July 11, 2011 @ 11:01 pm

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    The Glory Of Carbs(..& I Love red meat) . Plums,Cherries,Apricots,Raspberries,pears,figs—-High in fibre that lowers cholesterol & cleans the bowels,calcium,potassium,Vit A,C Bs,anti oxidants. Japan,they eat white rice frequently but only have a 3% obesity rate. Italy —pasta,dishes & many fruits—one of the longest life spans in europe. Yes they eat their share of protein with there dishes.One of the best Carbs—Alcohol. Reducing heart attack & stroke,a anti inflammatory in moderation

    Comment by sumbarine — July 11, 2011 @ 11:14 pm

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    @sumbarine negative sir, have you ever herd about glycation. glycation is the bounding of a carb molecule to a protein molecule. glycation increases the oxidative stress and therefore it ages you. I think you do make sense in some of what you wrote about, but high carb diets is bad no questions about that.

    Comment by Gideon359 — July 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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    @Nefus1988 if u eat 1000 cal of ANYTHING and don’t spend it you’ll gain weight, as simple as that. calory counting works when you know what you are counting for, if you eat at the level of your basal metabolism and kepp an active life style, there is no way arund loosing weight..

    Comment by surmeslevress — July 13, 2011 @ 4:04 am

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    @surmeslevress Try living on 2000cal of pure starch for a month and when change to 2000cal of no starch

    Comment by Nefus1988 — July 13, 2011 @ 6:35 am

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    If you eat 1000 cal of anything you will burn it as the body itself needs energy to run day to day. Losing weight is about a healthy balanced lifestyle, any diet that upsets that balance upsets me. Like if you agree!

    Comment by MaskedUpload — July 22, 2011 @ 10:05 pm

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    Its not about the destruction of calories, its about the way the body process those calories. All carbs are essentially sugar and raise insulin levels- the fat storing hormone. If you don’t eat carbs, you don’t trigger fat storage. No carbs means no glycogen, no glycogen means the body must use fat for energy. Using fat for energy means weight loss. Simple process, stop trying to mystify it with pictures of deep space.

    Comment by kaysterG — July 23, 2011 @ 11:49 pm

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