The promoters of the Atkins diet are now advising people who are on the diet to limit the amount of red meat and saturated fat they consume. Prior to this, the dieters of the Atkins diet were told to eat liberal amounts of steak, eggs and other saturated fats.
At health seminars that are held around the country, a health official working for Atkins Nutritionals informed health professionals that only 20 percent of dieter's calories should come from saturated fats. However, the Atkins diet is known as the diet where dieters could eat all the meat they wanted and never set limits on the consumption of saturated fats.
The change in diet regimen is due to the fierce competition from other popular low-carb diets that call for less saturated fats. Atkins representatives say that Dr. Atkins always stated that people should be eating other food besides red meat, but didn't get the message quite clear. They say there has been a revision in the book that doesn't change the diet itself, but the revision expresses how the diet should be followed.
Representatives of the Atkins diet say that the diet regimen still remains a high-fat diet. The revision will now educate people about certain saturated fats--found in meat, cheese and butter--and the amount that should be unsaturated--found in vegetable oils and fish. The consumption of fish and chicken will be more emphasized.
New York Times January 18, 2004
So, after advising dieters for years to satisfy their hunger with liberal amounts of steak, eggs and other saturated fats, the promoters of the Atkins diet now say that people on their plan should limit the amount of red meat and saturated fat they eat. Of course this is not Dr. Atkins who has changed his opinion, but the people who control his nutritional company. I seriously doubt this shift would have occurred if Dr. Atkins were still alive.
Of course, if you have read my new book, you will know that there is no "perfect diet," and one really can eat what they want as long as it is the right food for their nutritional type.
If you are interested in truly optimizing your health, your weight, and your energy, one of the most important steps you should take is to learn your nutritional type and eat according to it. What may be very healthy for others is not necessarily as healthy for you, and vice-versa, and eating according to your nutritional type is really the only way to ascertain what is really good for you.
To get full details on this essential principle and to assess your nutritional type, I highly encourage you to read my new book, Dr. Mercola's Total Health Program. In my book, you will also find 150 brand-new delicious and very nutritious low-carb recipes geared toward your nutritional type, the book includes a test and the means to learn and understand your own nutritional type and gear your diet precisely toward the foods that are right for you.
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