Wed, Feb-18-04, 08:18
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Plan: Low Calorie/Low Carb
Stats: 208/175/133
BF:32%
Progress: 44%
Location: Surrey, UK
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Originally Posted by Dawn R
To be honest, I didn't think that the program showed Dr Atkins in a bad light. I was much more pleased after watching this than I was watching Horizon a few weeks ago.
I appreciated that it concluded by focusing on the lady who had tried all the other diets and had found real success with Atkins, no matter what her "low-fat" thinking friend said. While it touched on the "no long term studies have proven that the diet is safe", I felt that it didn't attack it indiscriminately, and the other diets it was being compared to (grapefruit?? Aerobics being taught by a bulimic?) were much more unhealthy than our WOE could ever be. I felt that it showed how much he went through - all of the naysayers critisizing him over the years, and how he "laid low" during the low-fat 80's. We all know that he was a good man, and despite the latest media attack on him after his death, I think his message is FINALLY reaching people.
In all, I thought it was much more positive than recent programs, and I didn't receive any late night phone calls afterward from "concerned friends and relatives" who are usually trying to warn me off of a LC lifestyle after watching the drek that the BBC usually produces on this subject.
It wasn't perfect, but they've come a long way.
Dawn
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I agree with you Dawn, I thought there was a lot of positive comments and Atkins got off very lightly compared with most of the other diets and I couldn't help but feel that there is a great distancing from low fat is good for you, hope there is more of this in the next two programmes.
Felt the programme was much better researched than Horizon even though they couldn't resist the fat naked flesh in the showers scenes - I could have done without those! Will be setting the video for the next two episodes.
Would be wonderful if the media finally admitted that research does back up Dr. Atkins as they sort of finished of with.
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