your questions are easy for me to awnser
IS IT MADE TO BURN CARBS AND FUNCTION? OR TO BURN FAT AND FUNCTION?
fat burning metabolisms are the natural way are bodys are supos to be and have been for over 99% of are entire existence
the only chance are bodys had too switch to a glucose/carb burning metabolisms was maybe 2 months out of each year when lots of fruit was ready to eat before winter
and the only high carb food available year round was honey but it was guarded by bees and back then we did not have protective clothes to defend vs the bee stings and such so we most likely did not get much honey
the Atkins diet is alot like the diet of are ancestors you can see an example of it with natives and eskimos when they ate there high fat atkin like diets in the past they were all very healthy and strong but now with there unnatural ridiculously high carb toxic diets they have all become ill
high blood sugar is toxic to the body and to fix it the body releases insulin to mop it up and are bodys were never ment to go year after year endureing high blood sugar abuse
for alot of people the end result is type 2 diabetes thats when you are insulin resistant and once your body can no longer stop the harmful blood sugar spikes they will reach your kidneys and permanently damage them and if it gos on for too long you will need a kidney transplant
this is why Dr Atkins asked all type 2 diabetes people to get a creatine blood test done to see what shape there kidneys are in
but ya carbs taste good for a reason because they were ment to be available for only 2 months out of each year
when you eat lots of select carbs like sugar from fruit your body produces more insulin to mop it up and insulin is the fat storing hormone
so in other words by eating high amounts of carbs your ordering your body to store fat
so for alot of people it does not matter what you do if you keep eating carbs and keep telling your body to store fat you wont lose any fat
another thing to know is fruit is not like the fruit are ancestors ate fruit in today is not the same fruit of the past it has way more sugar added into it by mans way of growing it
thats why its better to eat berries they are more natural and alot better for you
eating around 65% fat 30% protein 5% carbs is not hard to do at all for example a chicken egg is 61% fat just add some butter to that and your over 65% fat
the Atkins diet cures and prevents many many diseases
the reasons why you need to eat so much fat are to help your body switch to a fat burning metabolism
and to keep your metabolism running at top speeds you dont want it to slow down you wont feel very good
your body will naturally go to its healthy weight by doing the Atkins diet and exercise
try and do weight lifting body building types of exercise and not just cardio
the Atkins diet will make your muscles insulin sensitive so the little glucose you do eat will go straight to them and not be used to make fat so thats why its extra good to do heavy weight lifting while on the diet
and if your muscles ever did need more glucose than from the carbs you eat the protein you eat has a 56 or 57% conversion rate to non blood sugar spikeing glucose so your muscles will get the power from the protein you eat
i think once your metabolism is healed from the Atkins diet the protein converted glucose are always good unlike the glucose from carbohydrates which spike your blood sugars
during the start of the diet i think its best to eat high fat , medium protein , low carb
then about 8 months into the diet you can eat high fat , high protein , low carb
i think you can eat up to 50-80?? carbohydrates a day while still keeping your muscles insulin sensitive not counting protein
remmber eating high fat does not cause heart disease or any disease for that matter
the only possible time fat can have undesirable results is when mixing high carbohydrates with it cause carbohydrates interfere with your body from being able to use fat properly
the average dietitian doctor is retarded but luckily more and more are smartening up and figureing out this common sense
anyways if you want to get healthy learn about the Atkins diet and follow it 100% reading all the things on these forums will help you alot
just spend time reading all the peoples posts on the Atkins forums so you learn things like to drink extra extra water during the massive weight loss during the start cause you need to flush the toxins out of your fat or something and to expect the induction flu
and also if you want to research things il give you some weblinks
Top Ten Nutritional Myths, Distortions and Lies That Will Destroy Your Health. Diabetes - The Cause, Prevention, Treatment and Control of Hypoglycemia and Types 1 & 2 Diabetes. Reversing Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Coronary Artery Disease, Stents, LDL and HDL Cholesterol., Lifestyle and Diet Success Stories. Meat and mortality | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. YouTube - BODY BY SCIENCE 5 (The Science Of Fat Loss -- Part 1) YouTube - BODY BY SCIENCE 5 (The Science Of Fat Loss -- Part 2) The Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Myth Destroyed!! | MuscleHack YouTube - Why You Got Fat A clear explanation of why low carb diets work. (article)