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Hi all:
I am not diabetic but I did feel that eventually I was going to travel down that road with my diet.
I stumbled on this website for diabetics called www.defeatdiabetes.org and here is an interesting article that is very recent:

Defeat Diabetes® E-Lerts™ Newsletter

June 2003
(Volume II, Issue 5)
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LOW CARB! or LOW FAT! or HIGH PROTEIN! or VEGAN! which is the best DIET for DIABETICS? or is there just one? Controversy surrounds all the diets that are claiming to help prevent diabetes or to help diabetics. Low fat diets have been prescribed for years, but obesity and diabetes are now at epidemic proportions. Do Diets Work? Check Latest News to read about the new low carb diet controversy. But another article proclaims a vegetarian diet may cure diabetes. Whether Dr. Atkins and his much maligned low carb-high protein diet is vindicated or not, there are some things all dieticians agree on - eat a healthy diet and enjoy being with people, even if you have diabetes.

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Weighing In On the Low Carb Diet Controversy The two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine directly compare low-carb diets to a traditional low-fat diet in obese patients over a longer period of time. The conclusions were that: (a) about a third of patients on both diets quit early on; (b) people who stayed on the low-carb diet lost more weight than the folks on the low-fat diet; (c) regardless of which diet you were on, the longer you stayed on the diet, the less well it seemed to work; and (d) scary predictions of bad things happening to people’s cholesterol levels on a low-carb diet turned out not to come true.

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I have two points of speculation to make:
1- probably statistically 1/3 of ALL people who diet (regardless of diet) are going to quit.
2-the longer anyone stays on a diet, the less they lose and that is probably because they have lost a percentage of body fat so it takes longer to lose the overall amount wanted (just like the example of someone who is 300 lbs losing say 30 lbs in induction and the person who weighs 180 losing only 12 lbs in induction).

Overall, this is good news to see the above news clipping on their website because I'm sure Dr Atkins was 100% correct!! :thup: :thup: