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Originally Posted by Flashsa  I have read the book and all that but I was wondering what happens to your weight loss if you don't get in enough carbs on a day or for 2 days. Say you are having a day where you eat more meat than anything else and you only get in 10 carbs - as long as you are taking multivitamins you will be fine correct? |
The book says that we are to eat no more than 20 net carbs daily and that the majority of those carbs are to come from vegetables. So if you have a 10 carb day, that's okay, provided at least 6 of those carbs are from vegetables---not cream, eggs, sugar substitutes, cheese, processed meats, etc.
It's not a good idea to eat "more meat". Dr. Atkins wrote that excessive dietary protein will be converted to glucose by your liver and what's not immediately used for energy will be stored as body fat. So eating more meat defeats the purpose of losing body fat, if the excess meat will eventually be stored as body fat.
As for multivitamins...they are supplements, not replacements. A manufacturer can use as much or as little vitamins they want. They can even pick and choose which vitamins to include and exclude. Hence the "specific formulations" for children, pregnant women, women, men and senior citizens. These amounts are typically based on the RDI (recommended daily intakes) of these nutrients and these are standardized by the government.
But here's the catch: some of these RDI's are wrong because the FDA requires the amounts are based upon
published scientific data. This is why the Vitamin D recommendation was increased last year: when the initial recommendation came out the panel could only use published data, which they knew was wrong because they were doing experiments showing that higher amounts were necessary for good health. But they couldn't use that information because it wasn't published.
So that's why vitamins should only be used as supplements, not replacements. Quite simply, they aren't complete.