Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution(Updated)

New York, New York, U.S.A.: M Evans & Co, 1992. Fifth Printing . Hard Back. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6" x 9. 328 Pages Indexed. Light tan boards with dark blue quarter spine. Very minor stains or marks on back endpaper. Remainder of book is free of marks with a faultless interior. Dust jacket price 19.95 is unclipped. If dieting hasn't brought you the health and slimness you've dreamed of, this is the book for you. Far different from conventional diet books, it shows that you can lose weight simply by derstanding the metabolic basis of your problem and following the Atkins diet program first for 14 days and then, when you see the program's astonishing effectiveness, for life. Many people have bought into the latest copout that states dieting isn't even worth trying; overweight is inevitable. The truth is, it isn't the concept of dieting that's at fault but the grief and agony of going on the wrong diet. The first principle of the Atkins diet is that it absolutely precludes hunger on the only humane system ever developed-eating. The second principle is that through the use of the metabolic advantage built into low-carbohydrate dieting, fat will melt off as if it was never meant to be there in the first place. Indeed, on this diet you can lose considerably more body fat than you would on other diets of the same number of calories. The third and most important principle is that the diet you lose on must be close to the one on which you'll be maintaining your weight loss for-the rest of your life. This is why the Atkins diet is the only major diet on which high rates oflong-tenn diet failures are virtually unknown. It also means, because of its long-term nature, that the Atkins diet must be healthsupporting. And it is, for as Dr. Atkins explains, obesity is caused by hyperinsulinism and insulin resistance, both complications of carbohydrate metabolism. Dr. Atkins shows how his diet, firmly rejecting the devitalized, refined carbohydrate food that so many of us have been eating, can be made into the centerpiece of a lifetime health plan. In fact, the 10,000 active patients at the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York are living testimonials to the major health improvements derived from a low-carbohydrate diet.