I've been subscribing to this newsletter for years, it's excellent. A
eulogy for Dr. Atkins:
A fitting eulogy for a fallen friend...
I've written before about Dr. Robert Atkins, the pioneering
father of the modern low-carb, high-fat diet that's helped
millions lose weight and improve their cardiovascular health.
But no tribute I could ever render would dignify the late
doctor's work as much as the one that appeared this past
month in the hallowed pages of the New England Journal of
Medicine...
Finally, after 30 years, the medical mainstream grudgingly
acknowledged the good doctor's advice about the dangers of
the low-fat and high-carbohydrate diet so rampant in the 70s
and 80s. It seems that the last decade's groundswell of
popular support for his ultra-successful nutritional
blueprint for weight loss and heart health has forced the
mainstream to undertake what's been billed as the very
first "controlled" trial of the Atkins diet...
That's right: A 12-round heavyweight championship bout
between titans of the dieting world - the low-fat conformers
vs. the low-carb reformers. It doesn't take a bookmaker to
predict who's going to prevail here. Why do you think
conventional medicine resisted staging this little rumble for
over 30 years? After 12 month-long rounds, the scorecard
reads like this:
* Atkins subjects had lost more weight than their
conventional-diet counterparts at every measured interval -
3, 6, and 12 months.
* After 12 months, Atkins subjects had more than 6 TIMES AS
MUCH HDL (good cholesterol) as conventional dieters.
* Triglycerides had dropped 27 TIMES AS MUCH in Atkins
dieters as in the high-carb, low-fat control group.
* The Atkins dieters showed identical levels of LDL (bad
cholesterol) as the control group - with absolutely no
fluctuation in either group over 12 months.
Looks like we've crowned a new heavyweight diet and heart-
health champion - by a knockout, no less! But it's such a
shame that my good friend Dr. Atkins wasn't here to see his
life's work validated by his foes...
But we are, and let's not forget him.
Treating patients as people,
William Campbell Douglass II, MD
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