Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let me just state up front that I am a 180-pound Atkins diet weight loss success story and I'm a huge fan of the low-carb diet that the late, great Dr. Robert C. Atkins promoted, advocated and used with real patients in his New York City complementary medicine clinic for three decades. With this as the backdrop of where I'm coming from, you might be surprised to see my 2-star rating for this new "Atkins" book. I think the Atkins Nutritionals company that is pumping out all of these books piggybacking on the 2010 New York Times bestselling New Atkins for a New You by three of the leading low-carb diet researchers in the world (Dr. Jeff Volek, Dr. Stephen Phinney, and Dr. Eric Westman) are not giving people anything special with this latest reincarnation of the message. If you're looking to learn about the Atkins diet, then this is not the book for you. Go read Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution for all the ins and outs of the diet written by the man himself. The New Atkins Made Easy is more about getting in the proper mental mindset to make change happen. Every lifestyle change needs this kind of message to penetrate through all the walls we tend to put up when faced with shifting our personal paradigm. I suppose there is merit in this, but a lot of people will just see the word "Atkins" on the cover and think this is an appropriate book for learning the diet well. It is not. This review is not going to endear me to the Atkins Nutritionals company, but I really don't care about that because I've been through the heartache and pain of trying to incorporate their horrible bars, shakes and frozen meal products into my diet over the past decade. These products contain highly inflammatory vegetable oils, estrogenic soy ingredients, nasty sugar alcohols that cause major gastric distress, and more. If you want to eat a truly low-carb diet, then turn to real food sources of nutrition like eggs, meat, butter, cream, non-starchy and green leafy veggies, almonds, cheese, and more. It's not that hard and you'll save yourself from a lot of disappointment down the road if you forgo these products that are the centerpiece of these newer "Atkins" books. DON'T FALL FOR IT!