Atkins Diet is dangerous pseudo-science

[ciphergoth]

The Atkins Diet is a pile of dangerous pseudo-science. Not that this comes as a surprise, but here's the word from Dr Susan Jebb of the Medical Research Council's Human Nutrition Research Centre.

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Update: Post made friends-only. Thanks to babysimon for pointing out that vampwillow had invited people in atkins_uk to join the thread, resulting in some incredibly lunatic contributions. Update: Public again.

Comments

Re: I'd heard a different story

[barking-watcher.livejournal.com]

I agree entirely. The father of one of my work colleagues decided to put himself on the diet even though he's had a heart bypass operation.

Needless to say the minute his GP found out he was advised to stop.

Re: I'd heard a different story

[vampwillow]

For the record, the Atkins diet was not originally created as a weight-loss program, but as a diet benfecial to heart patients (Atkins was a cardiologist). There are very many cases of GPs and MDs who have researched the issues *putting* patients on lo-carb diets in order to improve their life expectancy.