Low-carb diet firm Atkins files for bankruptcy

[Joanne]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050801/...food_atkins_dc


I'll bet all the carb fans are going "tsk tsk, I TOLD YOU SO!"

[MC Hammered]

I guess the Atkins diet is bad for the bank account too.

[dj_soo]

fuck yea. There is a god.

[Goat]

Diets are for chumps.

[desiRAWR]

Well duh. You tell people not to eat something in order to lose weight and that's just what they're going to do. What can the company do about it? Make their health bars and other namebrand foods...but people aren't going to by that crap because it's too expensive. The information on the Atkins diet was just too easy to get ahold of and people stopped buying the books.

Hah. This is funny.

[veN]

That's funny!

[Crunch]

Just another fad/american money making scheme set out to potentially do some good for the un-healthy well being of north america who can't figure out their own metabolism by themselves.

eNuff said.

[Moon]

fuck low carb diets

i go crazy without bowls of rice

[veN]

The carbs are fighting back! Go carbs go!

[desiRAWR]

People on the Atkins diet realized that there was nothing wrong with a grilled cheese sandwich. What did the carb ever do to them anyways???

mmmm grilled cheese...

[Goat]

^Fat laden carbofried dairy secretians.
MMMMM!!

[MC Hammered]

A book telling Americans that they are fat becuase they eat too much fast food would be bestseller.

NOT!

No one like the truth these days eh?

[Grapes]

I'll bet all the carb fans are going "tsk tsk, I TOLD YOU SO!"

Gee, you might say that I'm doing that.

Yeah, you might say that.

You might even say that I saw this coming a mile away.

Want proof?

Here's proof.

"The low-carb craze peaked in early 2004..."

Note the date of my post, people.

Thanks for posting this link, bananas :)

[Ree Fresh]

You body cant function properly with out carbs... what ppl dont get is there are good and bad carbs, like good or bad sugars or good and bad fats.
Anyways If you lack carbs and eat too much protine it can cause severe damage to your kidnies. And trying to convince ppl that its ok to eat greasy bacon is silly... as far as I know saturated animal fat is the best way to clog up your arteries and increase your chances of a heart attack.

[Grapes]

Is it wrong that I read stuff I posted a long time ago and lol at my own humourous writing?

[hardstylin]

low carb diets work big time, and there extremely cheap if your doing it right.

Buying things like low carb cookies is not doing it right.

[Van Tek]

the Atkin's Diet is for retards who are too lazy to actually work out and lose weight in healthy ways, as opposed to quick-fix ways where you try and limit your intake of this or that in a hopeless attempt to lose weight without having to use any effort and get off your fat lazy ass to go for a walk

[pbreak]

I like carbs... they help me do things I enjoy, such as breathing, moving, digesting... well, pretty much everything I do. It's almost as if they are essential to life.

[tvmann]

I know someone on the Atkins diet and it works for him. All that meat is so expensive. He does no exercise at all so it is the rich lazy man's diet. He has bad breath because being on low carbs does that, in fact the bad breath is a sign that the diet is working.

His daughter is totally vegetarian and he is almost entirely meat, produces some interesting household battles. Like she won't use any kitchen utensils that have been used to cook meat, while he tells her that eating a potato will kill her!

[Joanne]

Originally Posted by tvmann

I know someone on the Atkins diet and it works for him. All that meat is so expensive. He does no exercise at all so it is the rich lazy man's diet. He has bad breath because being on low carbs does that, in fact the bad breath is a sign that the diet is working.

His daughter is totally vegetarian and he is almost entirely meat, produces some interesting household battles. Like she won't use any kitchen utensils that have been used to cook meat, while he tells her that eating a potato will kill her!

the diet will help you lost weight, for sure. but weight-loss is no indication of it being healthy!

my old pathophysiology instructor tested the theory by drinking 1 1/2 litres of whipped cream and only whipped cream everyday for 2 weeks. he lost a lot of weight. but fuck, is that ever unhealthy and disgusting!

[Ree Fresh]

There is no wrong in useing the Atkins Diet... but it is sugested only as a short term diet, not something for long term or the rest of your life.

[Liqwid]

carbaholics....

"is butter a carb?"

~Dalyn

[Pennywise]

i like pizza

[Goat]

He has bad breath because being on low carbs does that, in fact the bad breath is a sign that the diet is working.

That or it's malnutrition.
or he should stop washing his mouth with ass.

His daughter is totally vegetarian and he is almost entirely meat

Meat = protien. Carbs are a bitch to expell, excess protien is shitted out, not stored in the body.

[Joanne]

Originally Posted by Goat

That or it's malnutrition.
or he should stop washing his mouth with ass.

no, the 'bad breath' is most likely the result of ketone bodies.

see, when you cut down too much carbs, your body's going to use up your fat instead for energy, resulting in the formation of ketone bodies. your body will try and get rid of this in a few ways, the lungs being one of the options... this is what gives it that 'bad breath', which most people describe as a 'fruity odour', although I've been told it smells more like rotten apples.

a similar thing that can occur with diabetics who are suffering from hypoinsulinemia, except, they can suffer from a more serious condition called diabetic ketoacidosis that can lead to death.

the only difference with someone who is on an atkin's diet though is that supposedly, the ketone bodies that have been produced are benign and that they have the ability to produce insulin, preventing them from going into a full ketoacidotic state.

Originally Posted by Goat

Meat = protien. Carbs are a bitch to expell, excess protien is shitted out, not stored in the body.

carbs are not a bitch to expel. they're our most efficient source of energy!

and, too much protein CAN get converted to fat.