To: craig crawford who wrote (138062 ) 1/29/2002 12:59:44 PM From: Skeeter Bug Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 164684 craig, you are full of it. the diet sears is explaining IS NOT the diet you support. which PROVES my point. you call atkins a high fat diet now instead of a miniscule carbo diet b/c you have NO EVIDENCE THAT A SEVERELY CARBO RESTRICTED DIET IS GOOD FOR PERFORMANCE. NONE. NADDA, ZILCH, ZIP. do the zoners have to bang you over your head with their GOLD MEDALS in order to get the point to sink in? are you ovverweight? are you ill? or are you just an undisciplined protein glutton? ;-) i will say that at least you are reading a balanced book for once. btw, i don't believe all of what sears says - only what can be proved. he goes into a ton of hypotheticls with skimpy or no evidence and that doesn't cut it with me. the diet is reasonable, rational and balanced. the weight loss results are there - surpassing atkins in some cases. the increased energy is there. the energy is due to eating appropriate amounts of carbos that break down to feed the brain glucose - a REQUIREMENT. it is not the same as a ketosis "high," the same "high" people get to minimize the pain of starving to death! >>5. Ketosis is good. Ketosis is the condition that results when diets are low in carbs. It is your body's way of adapting to starvation. When carbs are low, the body burns fat through ketosis, so it can use ketones in place of glucose in the brain. Ketones suppress appetite and, if accumulated, can cause high uric acid levels. Ketosis is a dangerous result of high protein diets. It can lead to gout, kidney stones or the nasty breath odor about which some protein dieters complain. Not all protein diets are low enough to induce ketosis (under 50 grams of carbs). The preliminary Atkins' diet is an example of a diet that does induce ketosis.<<