Fri, Mar-12-04, 12:18
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Senior Member
Posts: 3,423
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Plan: Atkins (loosely)
Stats: -/-/-
BF:
Progress: 40%
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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"Atkins tells you to avoid things like fruits, so my nutrients were very limited," said Varun Uttamchandani, a first-year undeclared student who tried the diet for nearly a year.
"I quit because I was revolted by how much meat I had to eat," he said.
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I suppose he forgot the part in the book (did he read the book ??) that talked about vegetables.
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The danger of low-carb diets is the elimination of high-quality carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables.
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Yaddi yaddi yah, everyone knows you aren't allowed to eat vegetables on Atkins under pain of death.
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"(In an ideal eating plan) most of your plate is pasta or rice, half of your plate is vegetables and fruits, a quarter of your plate is starch and a quarter of your plate is protein," Barke said.
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Yes let's replace a good part of that icky meat and those nasty veggies with the ultimate in nutrition : white rice or pasta. It would be a crime to deprive your body of all those wonderful nutrients you find in rice and pasta !!
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