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To: CAP who wrote (2706)	9/13/1998 7:16:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3725

Thats an unhealthy weight loss in such a short time. Btw you need to eat carbos. Sounds like his other fad diet. He got rich off it. Bad for the kidneys. Here's the big secret of losing weight. Eat less calories than you use and exercise. Art

To: CAP who wrote (2706)	9/16/1998 12:53:00 PM
From: Chucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3725

CAP, I am assuming it is one of the no carbo/high protein and fat diets (a.k.a. Mayo clinic diet)??? I don't think it's that bad a diet if you are severely overweight, but significantly reducing carbos for more than a few weeks is probably not a good idea. I'm sure Dr. Atkins addresses this because if not you will build up a lot of ketone bodies (acetone) in your blood stream. I didn't realize the diet would lower cholesterol. Don't you eat all sorts of eggs and bacon for breakfast? The energy you have is due to the body being stressed (thinking it doesn't have enough food, but it actually does because it is converting fat to ketone bodies--an alternate fuel); therefore, I believe your body releases more adrenaline. The diet should also reduce insulin resistance that our bodies might have built up if we carry a few extra pounds. This resistance comes about when our fat stores supplies our body with a continuous fuel source and then large amounts of carbos are ingested while the body is well fed. Insulin is then released telling the body to store the carbs (now in the form of glucose or blood sugar) as fat. The problem arises because, with high levels of released insulin, our body becomes more resistant to insulin. Therefore, when we need to remove some of the sugar from our blood we can't. You end up losing the glucose in the urine along with lots of water, and you will constantly feel hungry. Therefore, reducing body fat is very important in preventing diabetes. Later Chucky