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Re: atkins bars?
The Atkins company went bankrupt in 2005. They used to make things like syrups and flours and muffin mixes and what not. The products they have launched now are different from the ones back then.
But you are right that Atkins did state the bars and shakes they were making back then then was acceptable on induction but we here has found that many people cannot lose with the products on sale now so we warn against them.
Atkins was a believer in whole foods. Here is an excerpt from the biography written about him:
The Atkins company went bankrupt in 2005. They used to make things like syrups and flours and muffin mixes and what not. The products they have launched now are different from the ones back then.
But you are right that Atkins did state the bars and shakes they were making back then then was acceptable on induction but we here has found that many people cannot lose with the products on sale now so we warn against them.
Atkins was a believer in whole foods. Here is an excerpt from the biography written about him:
The patients who stayed, however, were extremely loyal to both atkins and his low-carb diet. But they had one major complaint: In a fast-paced world where everything was low in fat or high in carbohydrates or both, it was difficult to find something that they could eat on the run while still remaining on the low-carb program. They had no time to prepare their own snacks. Perhaps something like the low-fat energy bars sold in convenience stores would be great, only low-carb instead.
Atkins hesitated, and for a good reason. One of the things he constantly stressed with his patients was that they should eat foods that were as close to their natural state as possible, and for him, any kind of energy bar was as good as poison since it was clearly a processed food...
But his patients continued to beg him for something---"you sell the vitamins and other supplements, why not energy bars?" they reasoned--and so, with great reluctance, he gave in and developed not only an energy bar but also a low-carb shake that would make it easier for patients to keep to their Atkins programs.
"As long as you only use it for emergencies," he reminded them...
The energy bars and shakes were a necessary evil, there only because he thought his patients were too lazy to prepare the real kind of unprocessed foods that were the mainstay of his diet.
---Excerpted from:
Dr. Robert Atkins: The True Story of The Man Behind the War on Carbohydrates Lisa Rogak. Chamberlian Bros. 2005. Ch. 6
Atkins hesitated, and for a good reason. One of the things he constantly stressed with his patients was that they should eat foods that were as close to their natural state as possible, and for him, any kind of energy bar was as good as poison since it was clearly a processed food...
But his patients continued to beg him for something---"you sell the vitamins and other supplements, why not energy bars?" they reasoned--and so, with great reluctance, he gave in and developed not only an energy bar but also a low-carb shake that would make it easier for patients to keep to their Atkins programs.
"As long as you only use it for emergencies," he reminded them...
The energy bars and shakes were a necessary evil, there only because he thought his patients were too lazy to prepare the real kind of unprocessed foods that were the mainstay of his diet.
---Excerpted from:
Dr. Robert Atkins: The True Story of The Man Behind the War on Carbohydrates Lisa Rogak. Chamberlian Bros. 2005. Ch. 6
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