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The Power of Pizza
Is pizza your weakness? We’ve created some delicious alternatives to those carby-crusts. Whether you’re entertaining a study group, throwing something together for the family, or just craving pizza, here are four great alternative, low-carb crusts that are easy to make, and delicious! Be sure to look into our low-carb take on traditional pizza sauce, in Read More
What Are Net Carbs?
When you follow the Atkins diet, aka the Atkins Nutrition Approach, you actually count grams of net carbs, which represent the total carbohydrate content of the food minus the fiber content and sugar alcohols (if in the product). The net carbs number reflects the grams of carbohydrate that significantly impact your blood sugar level and Read More
How to Do Pre-Maintenance, Part 2
It may take some time to fine-tune your Critical Carbohydrate Levels for Losing and Maintaining. Slowing weight loss while still preserving the forward momentum of Pre-Maintenance does not always happen smoothly. If, after an incremental increase, you find that you are gaining or are not losing and you are not yet at your goal weight, Read More
Just in time for Valentine’s Day: 7 heart-healthy tips
The month of February is not just about flowers and chocolate (preferably a chocolate Atkins bar or shake). February is also American Heart Month. Take some time to be good to your heart, and share these heart-healthy tips with your friends and family. 1. Measure your middle: Waist size forecasts heart health better than weight Read More
High Carb Link to Heart Attacks
A landmark research study by Dr. Michael Shechter of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine and the Heart Institute of Sheba Medical Center, with collaboration of the Endocrinology Institute, shows exactly how high carbohydrate foods increase the risk for heart problems. Researchers looked at four groups of volunteers. One group ate a cornflake mush Read More
The Deadly Duo
Ask a handful of people: “What is the leading cause of heart disease?” They’ll probably guess high cholesterol, heredity—perhaps obesity. The right answer: Diabetes. About 75 percent of people who have diabetes will die of heart disease. The same conditions that eventually lead to a diagnosis of diabetes also cause artery-narrowing plaques to build up, Read More
Diabetes Month 2008
“Diabetics don’t die from diabetes”, says Dave Leonardi, MD, Medical Director of the Leonardi Executive Health Institute in Denver. “They die of complications from the disease”. This might seem like a minor point but it’s not. Diabetics have elevated risks for many other diseases, among them heart disease- from which many will ultimately die- and Read More
Atkins Induction Diet Improves Glycemic Control in Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease of uncontrolled sugar. In a nutshell, uncontrolled sugar is also a huge contributing factor to obesity and heart disease. When your blood sugar goes too high, insulin comes in to escort that extra blood sugar into the cells where it can be burned for energy. But if insulin doesn’t work effectively, Read More
Atkins® Low Carb Diet for Diabetics
Over the past few years, a significant amount of research- much of it reported in this newsletter- has shown that low-carb diets are effective not only for weight loss, but for improving many measures of risk for heart disease and diabetes. Now a new study from the prestigious Albert Einstein College of Medicine shows that Read More
Atkins Diet Beats Low-Fat for Improving Metabolic Syndrome
Over the years, thousands of people have turned to the Atkins dietary strategy of reduced sugar and carbohydrates for its demonstrated ability to help people lose weight and keep it off. But in the last decade, emerging research has shown over and over again, that the Atkins diet can actually accomplish even more than that. Read More
