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Well meat is just protein & fat; while potatoes, pasta, & rice, are almost pure carbohydrate; along with sugar & flour of course. The low carbohydrate foods are mostly fruits & vegetables. See: www.FATtoSKINNY.com

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This link looks rather extensive. It starts at foods with zero grams of carbohydrates and goes up from there.

Http://www.nutritionlifestyles.com/foodlistcarbohydrates1.htm

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Yes you will find a fairly complete list here: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR15/reports/sr15page.htm

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Y!Answers doesn’t give enough space here, but all foods are listed on the Atkins website -

http://www.atkins.com/Program/Phase1/WhatYouCanEatinthisPhase.aspx You can lose more body fat eating protein & fat (don’t eat protein alone) than not eating AT ALL. To lose weight fast, eat all you want, but nothing but meat, eggs, healthy oils, mayo, butter & half an avocado a day (for added potassium). Keep the calories high & the fat percentage high, at least 65% of calories. Green vegetables & some cheese will continue weight loss but at a slower pace. The first 2 weeks eat several cups a day of (mostly) lettuce & celery, cucumbers, radishes, mushrooms, peppers & more variety of vegetables thereafter – add 5 grams per day additional every week (20 grams day first 2 weeks, 25grams 3rd week, 30grams 4th week etc) til you gain weight, then subtract 10grams. That will be your personal carb level (everyone is different & depends on how active you are.) Start with meat, fats & salads for 2 weeks and then slowly add in more green veg, wk4 fresh cheeses, wk5 nuts & seeds, wk6 berries, wk7 legumes, wk8 other fruits, wk9 starchy veg, wk10 whole grains. You will learn how your body reacts to different foods. The first week is just water weight but fat is lost thereafter if you keep your calories high enough. Otherwise the body will strip it’s own lean tissue for nutrition. Although that may look great on a scale it will make it MUCH easier to accumulate fat in the future (since all that pesky lean tissue burning up calories will be gone). The body won’t release fat stores if you lower calories below what it needs. It will slow metabolism to compensate & store every spare ounce as fat. If you continue lowering calories, it will continue lowering the set point, til it can survive off nothing & store fat on anything. The body will only release it’s fat stores if it knows there is plenty of nutritious food. Eating carbs while trying to lose body fat is terribly inefficient. When in glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) you have to lower your calories (which slows your metabolism) & exercise heavily to deplete your glycogen stores before burning body fat. The core of Atkins program is converting the body from glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) to ketosis (burning fat as fuel). Dietary fat levels need to be at >65% of total calories, if not, the body will still remain in glycolysis by converting 58% of excess protein into glucose (via gluconeogenesis). It takes about 3 days to convert a body to ketosis, (but only one bite to convert back to glycolysis). People feel sluggish the first week but most feel better than ever thereafter. Carbohydrates (sugar, flour, bread, cereal, pasta, potatoes, rice, beans) trigger insulin (the ONLY fat storage hormone). Protein triggers the fat burning hormone glucagon. Simple carbs are addictive & can be disastrous to health. The best way to break the addiction is NO carbs for 3 days. Make a huge batch of deviled eggs, eat one every time you want “something” – have huge omelets with bacon, sausage, peppers, mushrooms & cheese. Pork chops smothered with peppers, mushrooms & cheese – pork rinds & dip ortuna/chicken/turkey/egg salad – steaks – a huge sugar free cheese cake. Eat so much you won’t feel deprived of anything. By the 4th day, the addiction will be gone & you can start making healthy choices. High insulin levels promote inflammation, weight gain, hunger & unbalance other hormones. Controlling insulin levels will balance out other hormones & allow human growth hormone (HGH) to be produced naturally so lean muscle will be gained even without exercise. Ground flax seed (2 Tbsp) 1/4 cup water, artificial sweetener, mix in a raw egg – let sit 10 min. To absorb liquid, put some cream cheese in the middle & nuke 2 min for daily fiber needs. As long as you have <9grams carbs per hour, you will maintain insulin control & shouldn’t gain weight, no matter the calories because insulin, the fat storage hormone is not activated. Many people gain weight on high carb, do low carb to lose weight & then are shocked when they return to high carb & gain weight. Many people can return to moderate carb levels but very few can really eat all they want of sugar & maintain weight or health. I am adamantly opposed to low calorie dieting because most people lose a good portion of lean tissue (including vital organs like the heart) along with fat stores. There is no nutrition in fat stores, only energy. Most people get impatient and lower their calories and increase their exercise to a point where they lose so much lean tissue that when they return to what was maintenance level eating they are now accumulating more fat stores because their caloric needs have dropped due to the loss of this tissue as well as their metabolism slowing down to work more efficiently on fewer calories & it becomes a vicious cycle of dieting and more loss.

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Avoid white food. Find the book “Sugar Busters”, I think it’s called. If you use sugar in drinks & cereals use Splenda instead. Eat more veggies and animal protein. Legumes/beans are great. Chocolate’s not bad, not as much sugar as you may think; dark chocolate’s best. Read labels and be amazed at how many are loaded with sugar, corn syrup, et al – even salad dressings (make your own).

Learn more about carbohydrate addicts here:

The Carbohydrate Addicts Manual

There is no proven research to suggest that carbohydrates are essential to human beings.  Grains were not introduced till the end of the last ice age.  That meant human beings survived and thrived for centuries without any carbohydrate.  After that, for yet more centuries, people in the northern hemisphere had to live without carbohydrate for at least 6 months of the year.  We would not have survived as a species if carbohydrates were necessary to our good health.  Always remember; the carbohydrates you dont burn are converted to fat.

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There isn’t actually any proof by way of genuine scientific research to show that carbohydrate has any validity in our diet.  10% of carbohydrates overall, by way of berries and greens is sufficiently healthy for anyone’s diet given today’s lifestyles.

 

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A pregnant woman’s food group should be dominated by protein.  She is growing a baby and carbohydrates will not form the baby’s bones muscles or tissue.  Only protein can do that.  As for calories, when you concentrate your diet on protein, carbohydrate and calories are really not an issue.

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Your ethnicity shouldn’t have anything to do with the question.  Any 13 year old male needs plenty of protein to ensure a healthy growth of bones muscle and tissue.   Don’t start his day with cereal, forget the carbohydrate cereals and start it with a healthy dose of protein like steak and eggs.