controlled carbohydrate meal choices. It ' s your voice that will bring controlled carbohydrate products into your local supermarket so that you can enjoy ice cream made with controlled carb sweeteners, as well as tasty bread, muffins, bagels, chips and cookies-to name but a few. It is the people who have championed Atkins before you and raised their voices to create this demand that led to the development of such products which make doing Atkins easier than ever before. Now it ' s your turn to spread the word.
Calling All Revolutionaries
I dedicated my first book to the " diet revolutionaries " who would make a difference in the world. That term was then just a vague concept, but now it has real meaning. The world does indeed need diet revolutionaries, people who will organize into groups with meetings and membership rosters. While this book has focused on issues specific to your needs, you may want to get involved in the larger picture.
According to the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, childhood obesity has increased threefold in the last twenty years. Need I remind you that these are the same years in which carbohydrates have become a larger and larger component of the American diet and the period in which junk food has dominated the food industry? The point is that this is really more than just a matter of personal weight control and health objectives. It is a matter of concern for the health and longevity of our children and future generations.
I applaud the fact that so many Atkins followers have joined together in local groups and have participated in Internet chats and bulletin boards. Such activities not only enable people to help themselves, but also allow them to assist, motivate and inspire others to succeed in doing Atkins. In a more global way, those individuals who reach out to others by whatever means make the world understand that there are health choices far different from the ones that most people have been offered so far. If these words strike a responsive chord, you may wish to become a member of an existing group or help to form a new one.
If you are involved in groups that are determined to spread the word about the controlled carbohydrate lifestyle. I ' d love for you to stay in touch. Keep me and my staff abreast of who you are, where you are based and what you are doing. See the end of this chapter for ways to get in touch with us. For those of you who are content merely to make your personal nutritional and weight loss experience as fulfilling and permanent as possible, the message is not very different: Keep in touch with us! Let us know of your progress, send us before-andafter pictures, tell us your story. My staff and I love to hear about experiences of men and women doing Atkins throughout the country and around the world.
There is no better way to stay in touch with all of our current activities and key nutritional and medical information updates than through our website( www. atkinscenter. com). As the number of people who visit our site has mushroomed well into the millions, we have recently upgraded it so that it offers the optimum in information and support to the growing contingent of Internet-savvy Atkins followers.
Visitors to our site will find a wealth of information about the Atkins Nutritional Approach, including:
• Atkins recipes and seasonal menus.
• A carb gram counter for printing out or for your Personal Digital Assistant( PDA).
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