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If a study published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine is anything to go by it doesn't look very hopeful.
Not only did Pritikin sell millions of books,Coach Sunglasses Outlet Dialing Down Anxiety, his message that all fats were bad spawned a huge low-fat revolution which lead to literally thousands of low-fat products flooding the supermarket shelves.
So, is the Atkins diet going to be any more successful for people in early 21st century than it was for the millions who tried, and failed to stick with it, in the 1970s?
And here we are today, the pendulum has swung back and we're now in the middle of a so-called low-carb diet revolution. (Complete with a deluge of low-carb products now flooding supermarket shelves.)
But, like the Atkins diet before it, the Pritikin diet was very hard to stick to. Fat adds texture and improves the flavor of food, and drastically reducing it from the diet was too much for most people to handle over the long-term. Others who did stick with a low-fat diet bought into the notion that if a food contains little or no fat, then you can eat as much of it as you want. Calories were forgotten, and for many of these people a low fat diet actually lead to weight gain instead of weight loss.
The study, conducted by researchers from the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, involved 132 obese adults with an average weight of 288 pounds. Around half the group was instructed to follow a low-fat diet, while the other half were instructed to follow a low-carb Atkins diet.
But there was nothing new about Atkins' message. He still recommend eating plenty of steak and butter but very limited amounts of carbs.
With such a premise, the book became an instant bestseller and sold millions of copies. What's more, an army of Atkins diet converts boasted to anyone who would listen about all the weight they had lost while eating "forbidden" foods.
After six months, the group on the low-carb Atkins diet had lost more weight, on average, than those in the low fat group. However, the low carb group stopped losing weight after six months,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and after a year both groups had lost roughly the same weight. And the weight loss was very modest -- 11-19 pounds in the low-carb group, and 7-19 pounds in the low-fat group.</
Dr. Atkins first found fame in 1972 when he released a book called Diet Revolution. In the book he told people they could easily lose weight while enjoying juicy steaks and plenty of butter and cream -- as long as they drastically cut back on carbohydrates.
However, as with all fad diets, there was a catch to the Atkins diet. Yes, you could eat all the butter you wanted, but you couldn't have any bread with it. Yes, you could have steak, and even sour cream, but forget about the potato. Yes, you could have a burger -- just forget about the bun, the fries, the soda and the dessert.
But for a public desperate for weight loss advice, it wasn't long before another diet guru appeared on the scene to offer a solution. In 1979 Nathan Pritikin,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a nutrition researcher, released a book called The Pritikin Program. It was based on the premise that it was fat, not carbs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that makes us fat. By drastically reducing fat in your diet you'll get slim, Pritikin told us, and you would also improve your health.
In 1956 McCalls Magazine featured an article titled "Why Fad Diets Fail." Well, it seems little has changed, because it's obvious from our collective girth that fad diets are still failing us.
By the 1990s Dr. Atkins had picked up on the dissatisfaction many people felt about low-fat diets. Seeing an opportunity to introduce his low-carb message to a new generation of dieters, he updated his 1972 bestseller Diet Revolution and called it, what else, New Diet Revolution.
This deprivation was too much for most people following the diet, and by the late 1970s the Atkins diet fad had faded away.
But we remain forever hopeful. One of the most popular fad diets at the moment is the low-carbohydrate diet championed by the late Dr. Robert C. Atkins.