Dr. Atkins' Health Revolution: How Complementary Medicine can Extend Your Life - Softcover

Atkins, Robert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055328360X ISBN 13: 9780553283600

Publisher: Bantam, 1990

Synopsis

Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Dr. Atkins' Superenergy Diet, and Dr. Atkins' Nutrition Breakthrough ushered in a new era in the way we look at health and nutrition.  Now, in his most important book to date, the noted physician and best-selling author calls for dramatic changed in conventional medicine and reveals the "new medicine" of the future that us already working wonders for thousands of patients today!

Dr. Atkins' Health Revolution offers readers a powerful new program based on a low-carbohydrate/low-sugar diet combined with nutritional supplements, biologic medicines, and the latest breakthroughs in mainstream medicine that can produce a level of health and fitness that conventional medicine alone can't offer.  Dr. Atkins calls this revolutionary approach "complementary"--and explains how it is the way we will all be treated...ten years from now!  Using patient-tested therapies and treatments from a wide variety of healing arts, Dr. Atkins presents a commonsense guide to alternative medicine that works.  Here is the latest information on:

The crucial connection between diabetes and carbohydrates.
>A simple, effective drug-free way to prevent headaches.
Treating PMS. fibroids, and other female problems without surgery and without hormones.
The role of chelation and EDTA therapy in treating cardiovascular disease.
The many causes and many cures of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Plus the Atkins Center's nutritional prescriptions for insomnia, hypertension, arthritis, osteoporosis, allergies, and much, much more!

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The author of Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution here expands his scope, offering a comprehensive, very optimistic approach to health. More than 25 years of clinical experience and research have convinced Atkins that some of the most effective and least side-effective medical practices are those suppressed by the medical establishmentthe FDA, the AMA, conservative research foundations and the pharmaceutical industry. He grants orthodoxy its "heroic" successes in acute situations, but sensibly abhors chronic, debilitating drug therapies. The core of "complementary medicine" is a new version of the sugar-free Atkins diet. Depending on his patients' needs, he combines nutritional prudence and vitamin and mineral supplements with selected "alternative medicine" methods (chelation, homeopathy, acupuncture). It's an individualized approach that can't be "proven" except by the impressive results Atkins claims to achieve. His arguments are coherent and often convincing, his case studies uplifting, and his supporting data ample. But his effusive style reads alternately like a promotion for the Atkins Center and a textbook abstract.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Atkins, of low-carbohydrate-diet fame, promotes a "new medicine" that combines the benefits of traditional medicine with alternative treatments from nutrition to chelation therapy. The first chapter offers a caustic critique of American medicine by comparing the alternative system with mainstream medicine, while the subsequent two chapters discuss Atkins's success with disorders such as diabetes and arthritis. Case histories document his achievements. Although Atkins includes appendixes of diets and prescriptive formulas, he does not recommend self-diagnosis or self-treatment. Buy where his earlier books have been popular. Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City,
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 055328360X
• ISBN 13: 9780553283600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448