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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
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