Over 40 years ago, Dr Atkins realized the important link between dietary habits and health. He established the Atkins Center to provide dietary education, help and counselling for those in need.
Even before publishing “Dr. Atkins diet revolution”, the author had already established a place where people with complicated health problems could find support, proper counselling and close guidance. Heart and cardiovascular disorders, cholesterol levels, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, hypoglycemia, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, asthma, chronic fatigue, immune system deficiencies had been taken into account by Atkins Center‘s physicians. Dr. Atkins has always been preoccupied with complementary healing methods, and this, along with his interests in losing weight, led to the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine (New York, 1970).
Atkins Center Mission
- Teaching and assisting people who need or simply want to lose weight and maintain that loss.
- Providing a broad field of individualized complementary medical treatments, primarily for people with hypertension and diabetes.
- Creating a national education program for health care professionals about the current science and the Atkins dietary approach.
- Initiating and maintaining a national education program, (in conjunction with medical associations, parent/teacher associations and government agencies), to prevent and reverse obesity and eliminate or control through appropriate diet, diseases such as diabetes which are increasingly affecting America’s youth.
Atkins Center Results
Hypertension
There are many successful cases on file where through a low-carbohydrate diet and a nutrition supplement plan, such as the Atkins weight loss plan, patients with high blood pressure were able to stop taking medication.
To treat hypertension, Atkins Center used a complete new therapy called Chelation. This enables doctors to remove risky and damaging metals from the human body. Thus, the blood flow was restored and appropriate blood pressure restored.
Diabetes
All his life, Dr. Atkins thought that a diet including vegetables, healthy natural fats and protein-rich foods was the solution to prevent diabetes.
Today, nearly 10 percent of the US population suffers or is at high risk of developing diabetes, a disease which can be controlled if not cured by an appropriate diet regime.
The Atkins Center has to achieve two goals simultaneously in it’s efforts to control type 2-diabetes : to lower both the glucose level and the insulin level. There are many successful case studies which show that as a result of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet of the Atkins’ eating plan, blood sugar is normalized. Cardiovascular risks related to this adult-onset form of diabetes are significantly decreased. An extra benefit is the fat loss which occurs as well.
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