New Atkins for a New You Quotes

“It’s the combination of fat and a relatively high intake of carbohydrates—particularly refined ones—that can become a deadly recipe for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and a host of other ills.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“FRUIT IS NOT A VEGETABLE Although fruits and vegetables are often considered interchangeable, they’re more different than similar, both botanically and metabolically.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Following the Atkins Diet seems to allow people to find their natural healthy weight, which might be higher or lower than the one you'd originally envisioned.”
― Eric C. Westman, New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great.

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― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Salmon and such other cold-water fish such as tuna, sardines, herring, and anchovies are superb sources of omega-3s.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Both omega-6 and omega-3 EFAs are needed for human cell membranes to function; however, the two compete with each other to get into membranes, so keeping their intake in balance is important”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“To be sure that there are no trans fats in a product, also check the list of ingredients, where trans fats are listed as “shortening” or “hydrogenated vegetable oil” or “partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.” If you see any of these words in the ingredient list, just say no.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“In the last decade, researchers have found that an increased intake of trans fats is associated with an increased heart attack risk.7 More recently, trans fats have been shown to increase the body’s level of inflammation.8 (For more on trans fats and inflammation, see chapter 13.) Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has mandated that the Nutrition Facts panel indicate the amount and percentage of trans fats in all packaged foods.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“MUFAs, on the other hand, lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and triglyceride levels without lowering HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“And, strange but true, research shows that during the weight loss phases of Atkins, if you eat saturated fat, the less carbohydrate you eat, the more you reduce the saturated fat levels in your blood.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Though you do absorb some cholesterol from eating animal products—plants contain none—your own liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your body from scratch, independently of how much cholesterol you eat.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Digesting and metabolizing protein consumes more than twice the energy (about 25 percent) as processing either carbohydrate or fat.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Nonetheless, like sugar and its kin, refined flour and other refined grains—HFCS is a refined-corn product—have become mainstays of our diet.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“White bread, once the exclusive preserve of the rich, was now available to anyone. However, by removing the oil-rich germ and fiber-rich bran, flour was stripped of virtually all of its essential nutrients. Only after millions of people worldwide died as a result of malnutrition from eating a diet based on bread made with white flour did the U.S. government act, mandating that flour be fortified with at least eight essential vitamins and minerals to replace some of the micronutrients removed in the germ and bran (with the notable exception of magnesium). This new and supposedly improved white flour was dubbed “enriched.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Though most cells in your body can metabolize glucose quickly, fructose is processed primarily in the liver, where most of it turns to fat. From there, it takes a direct route to your love handles. Though our forebears did okay with the small amount of natural fructose present in fruits, today we’re taking in massively greater amounts. Frankly, our bodies weren’t made to deal with it, as a recent study makes crystal clear.5 Two groups of overweight people were told to eat their usual diet. Individuals in one group had to consume one-quarter of their daily calories as a specially made beverage sweetened with glucose. People in the other group had to consume an otherwise identical beverage sweetened with fructose. There were no other dietary requirements or limitations. As expected, everyone gained weight, but only the fructose-consuming subjects gained fat in the tummy—the most dangerous place to carry extra weight. They also showed increases in insulin resistance plus significantly higher levels of triglycerides. None of these indicators was present in the glucose group. Pass up any product that lists HFCS as an ingredient.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“HFCS has infiltrated our food supply. Some public health officials link the doubling in the rate of obesity in the last four decades to the growing use of HFCS to sweeten soft drinks.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“White flour is better suited to glue for kindergarten art projects than to nutrition. Refined grains and the insidious sweet “poison” known as sugar fuel the food-processing industry, but such products damage the health and quality of life of people who are struggling with carb overload.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“And when the carbs you do eat are in the form of high-fiber foods, which convert to glucose relatively slowly, you shouldn’t experience extremes in your blood sugar levels.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“switching your body over to burning mostly fat for energy. When you eat foods composed primarily of protein, fat, and fiber, your body produces far less insulin.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Contrast this to body fat stores: Even a thin person tends to carry a two-month reserve supply.)”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“The higher your insulin level, the less fat is released back into your system to be used as fuel. So when you eat a high-carb meal, particularly one high in refined starches and sugar, your insulin shoots up to remove the glucose from your blood and tuck it away in cells, and your fat usage simultaneously goes way down. Simply put, your body always gives carbs priority treatment.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“HOW FOOD BECOMES ENERGY—AND FAT”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“a cell chooses this last option, making fat from glucose, it’s a one-way street. There’s no way that fat can be made back into glucose. It has to be either burned as fat or stored as fat.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Already in my field of neurology, researchers are studying the application of low-carbohydrate diets for epilepsy in adults, as well as for Alzheimer’s disease, autism, brain tumors, and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS).”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“The ketogenic diet, similar to a low-carbohydrate diet, was created in 1921 as a treatment for epilepsy.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“Statistics reveal that fat intake by Americans hasn’t changed much from 1971 to 2000.1 The same cannot be said for carbohydrates. Their intake has increased in tandem with skyrocketing rates of obesity. In actuality, people have replaced some of their dietary fat with an even greater amount of carbohydrates. The”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great

“High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) deserves a special place in the rogues’ gallery of sugars. A manufacturing process that increases the fructose content of corn syrup (which starts out as pure glucose) creates HFCS, making it taste much sweeter. The end product typically contains 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose.”
― Eric C. Westman, The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds and Feeling Great