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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (143808)	7/16/2002 8:23:15 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>> the question is, what will replace it. my suggestion is try the moderate zone diet first, rather than the more extreme atkins diet. << the atkins diet is not extreme. people associate the atkins diet with the 2-week induction period. after that initial two-week period, you gradually increase your consumption of healthy carbohydrates with lots more veggies and even some fruits. >> if you are a competing athlete try the zone and modify it marginally until you achieve peak performance. << the atkins diet is easily modified for all the needs of performance athletes. if you workout strenuously and sweat a great deal, up your intake of some foods heavily laden with vitamins and minerals to replace and fuel your body. often vegetables and fruits have lots of those vitamins and minerals, but there is no need to be carb loading on pasta or rice or bread which is total garbage. just up your intake of healthy nutrition dense veggies and fruit, which obviously have more carbs than meat, butter, cheese, eggs, etc. >> a variant of ketosis can kill some people - make sure you aren't one of those people before going into ketosis if you deem it necessary. ala atkins. << imbeciles. of all the millions of people who have tried atkins, no one has ever died from being in the type of benign dietary ketosis you find in the atkins diet. only diabetics with ketoacidosis are in risk and that has nothing to do with eating the atkins way. it is a totally different situation. feeble efforts to try and confuse ketosis and ketoacidosis are scare tactics to try to keep people from doing atkins and so people will try something else like the zone. give it a rest. if the ketosis found in the early stages of the atkins plan is so dangerous, how come out of all the millions of people who have tried the diet, no one has ever dropped dead or gotten sick and sued him! now who is the one trying to use clintonesque manipulation! >> atkins diet has a 60% rating at epinions.com. the zone has a whopping 90% rating - a full 50% higher approval rating than the atkins diet... atkins - 60% approval... << yeah, i remember reading some of those epinions you linked in our previous arguments. you had idiots thinking they could take those cans of whip cream in the store and shoot it off in their mouth and still be faithful to the atkins plan. the dumbshits failed to realize that they put all sorts of sugar in those reddy-whip cans and that atkins refers to natural whipping cream you get in a carton. (no sugar added) tells you the mentality of some of the idiots on the internet. i'm sure the zone is popular and all because most americans are lazy and addicted to carbs and don't want to take the time or effort to adhere to a strict regimen where you eat fresh food and you actually take time to prepare it the old fashioned way. of course americans don't want to make the effort to learn a whole new way of cooking and they want something fast that they can grab. a diet which allows more carbs is going to be more appealing simply because it will allow more food choices where people can just grab something. might make it more popular, but doesn't make it a better way to eat. also, many people have been so brainwashed by the mainstream nutritional community that they just can't help but think the atkins plan is extreme or that eating all those eggs or meat or butter is going to do them in. the zone diet appeals to their sense of security by not being radically different from the current way of eating. that in no way makes the zone the best diet you bonehead! the low-fat high-grain diet is the most popular diet in the world, but it is certainly not the best! so popularity or e-pinions do not bolster your argument one bit!