Dr. Atkins' Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook

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Robert C. Atkins, M.D., was the founder and medical director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine. A 1951 graduate of the University of Michigan, he received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical School in 1955, and went on to specialize in cardiology. He was a practicing physician for over thirty years and is the author of several books. As a leader in the areas of natural medicine and nutritional pharmacology, he had built an international reputation. He was the recipient of the World Organization of Alternative Medicine's Recognition of Achievement Award and was the National Health Federation's Man of the Year. His many media appearances, where he had discussed diet and health, included "Larry King Live," "Oprah," "CBS This Morning," and "CNBC," among others. Many magazine and newspaper articles have featured his work, and he also had a nationally syndicated radio show. Dr. Atkins was the editor of his own national monthly newsletter, "Dr. Atkins' Health Revelations." He died in April 2003.

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Great taste in no time -- the Atkins way! Based on the bestselling Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, the recipes in this completely revised edition will give you a quick and easy way to eat healthy, whether you're just beginning to slim down or want to maintain your goal weight and enhance your health and well-being. This new edition includes 50 new recipes, updated favorites, and new nutritional data -- including Net Carbs -- making it easier than ever to follow the controlled carbohydrate lifestyle pioneered by Dr. Atkins. Here's just a sampling of the satisfying, super-quick recipes you'll find inside: Energizing breakfasts like Almond French Toast and Ricotta and Leek Frittatas Elegant appetizers such as Curried Stuffed Eggs and Smoked Salmon Rolls Family-friendly main dishes like Pork Chops with Orange and Rosemary, Hazelnut-and-Pepper-Crusted Swordfish, and Sauted Zucchini with Nutmeg Decadent desserts such as Chocolate Buttercream and Lemon-Poppy Pound Cake Plus many, many more mouthwatering main and side dishes, snacks, and treats! Designed for healthy eating and simple preparation, the low carb recipes in this must-have new edition of a perennially favorite cookbook will help you produce delectable meals that will be the key to a whole new you.

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Great taste in no time -- the Atkins way!
Based on the bestselling Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, the recipes in this completely revised edition will give you a quick and easy way to eat healthy, whether you're just beginning to slim down or want to maintain your goal weight and enhance your health and well-being. This new edition includes 50 new recipes, updated favorites, and new nutritional data -- including Net Carbs -- making it easier than ever to follow the controlled carbohydrate lifestyle pioneered by Dr. Atkins. Here's just a sampling of the satisfying, super-quick recipes you'll find inside:
• Energizing breakfasts like Almond French Toast and Ricotta and Leek Frittatas
• Elegant appetizers such as Curried Stuffed Eggs and Smoked Salmon Rolls
• Family-friendly main dishes like Pork Chops with Orange and Rosemary, Hazelnut-and-Pepper-Crusted Swordfish, and Sautéed Zucchini with Nutmeg
• Decadent desserts such as Chocolate Buttercream and Lemon-Poppy Pound Cake
Plus many, many more mouthwatering main and side dishes, snacks, and treats!
Designed for healthy eating and simple preparation, the low carb recipes in this must-have new edition of a perennially favorite cookbook will help you produce delectable meals that will be the key to a whole new you.

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Chapter 1
Lose Weight, Look Great, and Enjoy Your Food
by Robert C. Atkins, M.D.
Suppose you love food -- everybody does -- and yet you have weight to lose and weight to keep off. And you love not just any food, but mouth-watering, rich, and satisfying food. You're facing a dilemma -- a choice between looking and feeling great or eating well.
You can have both. Using this very special cookbook, food lovers will learn to create sumptuous dishes and lose weight while making garden-variety dieters envious. You will enjoy all the things that other diets told you to avoid. What's more, the recipes in this book have such universal appeal that you can use them for a dinner party and no one will guess you are on a diet -- unless, of course, you choose to share with them the "secret" that no one else seems to know:
The secret is the Atkins diet.
The Atkins diet is not just another novelty diet; it is not simply one of your many dieting options. It is so different from other approaches to losing weight that you cannot help but feel "this can't be true!"
But I'll wager that most of you who read my book Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, and tried the diet, smile when you hear such disbelief. You know from experience that what I say is true. For those of you not as familiar with it, the Atkins diet is specifically geared to correct the metabolic imbalance that causes people to become overweight.
Excess weight, especially a significant degree of it, represents an identifiable metabolic disorder called hyperinsulinism. Blood tests will show if you have it. And if you do, you can correct it -- actually bypass it -- by sharply cutting down on your carbohydrate intake. The reason: Insulin floods the bloodstream only when carbohydrates are consumed, so eliminate carbohydrates and you completely bypass your insulin problem. As a hyperinsulinism victim, you are metabolically quite normal unless and until you take in carbohydrates.
Getting your carbohydrate intake down to nearly zero induces your body to put out a biochemical symphony of fat-mobilizing chemicals. When they build up in your bloodstream, as they do whenever you go forty-eight hours or more without carbohydrates, you will normalize your blood sugar, have more energy, and be much less hungry. Because your hunger will be so reduced, the food you eat will fill and satisfy you. And yet, simultaneously, you will be losing weight rather rapidly -- at a rate that usually occurs only on some kind of starvation diet. Even more curious, you'll be taking off inches from where you most want to give up unwanted fat.
Despite the medical truth of these principles, we live in an age where the low-fat "fad" diet has become so popular that very few people question it. The low-fat diet has even become the standard diet. Restaurants, cookbook authors, and dietitians, among others, have tried to convince us that a low-fat diet is, or can be made to be, satisfying.
But is food as enjoyable and fulfilling as it was in the "good old days"? Not to me, that's for sure. The restaurants I grew up with don't exist as they did; they don't make the same succulent dishes they used to serve. The dells whose corned beef won "Best in the City" awards years ago now offer a fat-trimmed variant that's not worth eating. And yet the magazines and newspapers rave about this fat-free, stripped-down "cuisine" with such unbridled enthusiasm that I wonder if "gourmet" and "masochist" have now become synonymous. No matter what other recipe books claim, fat-free foods just taste different. There is no delicious substitute for heavy cream, pâté, or bacon. The low-fat creations just don't work because fat creates, translates, and intensifies flavor, and is what makes you feel sated and full. Your body can't be fooled, nor can your taste buds.
For any diet to be successful, it must be a lifetime eating plan. The metabolic imbalance leading to being overweight doesn't go away, so your diet must master it forever. But other cookbooks expect you to live the rest of your life eating bland fat-free foods. Imagine a life without real butter, real cream, real steak. That is why so …