The Atkins Shopping Guide: Indispensable Tips and Guidelines for Successfully Stocking Your Low-carb Kitchen (Mass Market Paperback)

by Atkins Health & Medical Information Serv (Author) "The typical supermarket can hold about 50,000 items, and approximately 11,000 new food products are introduced each year, making it possible for you to find..." (more)
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What should I eat, and where can I find it?
Which products are the most Atkins-friendly?
Are there hidden dangers in seemingly "acceptable" foods?

Now Food Shopping the Atkins Way is Easier Than Ever!

Whether you're one of the millions already losing weight and feeling great thanks to the remarkable Atkins Nutritional Approach™ or you are just discovering the healthy benefits of a low-carb lifestyle, shopping for food need no longer be a daunting process.

The Atkins Shopping Guide contains everything you must know to stock your pantry with the right foods, while avoiding products devoid of nutrients and full of sugar and white flour.

With foods clearly arranged by category, this indispensable handbook takes you aisle-by-aisle through the supermarket, putting helpful information at your fingertips. It also provides useful pointers for shopping at "superstores" and natural foods retailers, all in a handy format portable enough to carry in your pocket or purse.

So throw away that misguided food pyramid chart and stop counting fat grams and calories. With The Atkins Shopping Guide, confusion about the right way to eat will be a thing of the past, as you follow the proven Atkins path to healthy living!

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Avon (April 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060722002
• ISBN-13: 978-0060722005
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,901 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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117 of 121 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars bah...never pay real money for a glorified brochure, May 11, 2004

By	J. K. Kelley "penslinger and long-term book j... (Eastern WA, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

First off, my credentials: I lost fifty pounds on this diet. This is a review of this guide, not of the diet.

The beginning part of the book gives a brief, peppy rundown on the diet itself. It has some good information, but the tone is irritating. The phrase 'doing Atkins' may be colloquially understood, but it sounds amateurish and is heavily overused. No opportunity to pimp Atkins brand products is passed up. The result had me on edge by the time I began reading the actual shopping guide, and then it got worse.

The useful parts are those dealing with raw foods, ones that don't involve 'branding' (that's corporate newspeak for "ramming the product name into your head and keeping it there," folks): fruits, basic meats, cheeses. Gouda is gouda; tofu is tofu; beets are beets. Unfortunately, even these parts suffer from some degree of measurement inconsistency.

If you're going to compare nutritional facts from item to item, you have to use the same size portions for each item in a class. It is no good referring to 1/2 cup of most vegetables, then switching to 'half a baked potato' or 'two tablespoons'. Sure, the reader can convert, but isn't that why I bought the book? Pick a half cup and stick with it. Or an ounce. A ton. I don't care, as long as it's consistent, and the book's measurements are often so inconsistent as to be impractical for reference.

Where the book really begins to go south is when it comes to any form of 'branded' food. Atkins Nutritionals, or whichever branch of the Atkins empire put this out, has naturally listed Atkins brand products first in every category. Okay, fine, we're big kids and can read past this obvious shill; but even so, a lot of the other name brand products evaluated are going to change as the market reacts. That's going to make a big chunk of this book obsolete. Plus, the obvious placement of Atkins brand stuff first leaves a lingering suspicion: how did they choose the brands for the book? I can't find a lot of them on my local shelves. Is it possible that the ones chosen were those that would look undesirable relative to Atkins brand products? I don't know; I'm not a professional nutritionist or supermarket chain buyer. All I know is that the array of choices sure makes the Atkins stuff look like the best in every category. Funny how that worked, eh?

The problem with low-carb dieting, at this writing, is that our food providers have decided to brand a lot of their products with the 'low-carb' label, as if merely saying so will make it so. The guide states, correctly, that this stems from a lack of regulation. A balanced, professionally written guide would have been a great step forward; the message urged upon the reader from nearly every page of this book--"Just buy ours!"--is a step backward.

Like any sales brochure, this should be free. Don't pay $7.50 for it.

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not reccomended, February 24, 2009

By	Paul Holtman - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

too much bad info on atkins diet causing liver damage.

the diet works if you stay on it, but at what long term health cost?

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book to own!, March 25, 2008

By	John A., Hicks "John In Marietta" (Marietta ,GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The best was to start your new Adkins Lifestyle & the shopping guide is awesome! A must have for all on the Adkins diet!