BBC Story about Low Carb Dieting - Part 1

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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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[Bob Langan]

hahahahahaha! the burning of the muffin part is hilarious! What an idiot

[anna annoula]

It would be a shame for you not to build muscle when these other normal people do it easily with Lean Body Blaster (go google it).

[timo kopo]

It would be a shame for you not to burn fat when other people are able to shed fat so easily using "Fat Blast Formula" (check it out on Google).

[boxinghris]

Atkins believed that it was 'possible to eat as much as you want and lose weight"?

The video starts with an outright lie and proceeds to go downhill from there.

"Welcome to the weird world of the Atkins Diet!" says the narrator in her mock astonishment.

Perhaps she should have introduced us to the weird world of the BBC where child abuse and exploitation was apparently institutionalised, and celebrities were free to do as they pleased with the vulnerable.

People if glass houses BBC.....

[Matthew Mitchell]

The ending of the video makes no sense. Did they forget that your body doesn't have to use all of the calories? Not all calories are absorbed, they can be excreted.

[Tania Belluccy]

Great videos! Accent helps ;) check out PaleoDiet.web44.net you might find it interesting!

[derek2010x]

There is a lot of truth to what you say, but keep in mind that you should look to their successful acolytes not to them. The reason: many of them have damaged their bodies metabolism, at least potentially, prior to finding the solution to fat loss. Therefore their bodies might not be entirely salvageable. While in contrast their younger, undamaged followers would be a better standard to go by when judging effectiveness.

[derek2010x]

Not to quibble, but thermodynamics does apply to fat regulation, just not in the simplistic way that mainstream medicine advocates. I am agreeing with you in spirit. The body has mechanisms that override simplistic "calories in calories out" mechanistic explanations of fat regulation. Therefore just restricting calories and exercising is not enough. It is still possible for the body to override your efforts and starve your lean mass, while feeding your fat reserves even while dieting.