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

[vampwillow]

pretty well established that high cholestrol diets like the Atkins diet lead to an early heart attack

source??

sfaiaa the issue is that it is only if there are high levels of carbohydrates AS WELL that this may be an issue. There are two basic types of cholestrol (effecticely one good one bad) and going through the four stages of Atkins generally reduces the bad and improves the good. Plenty of sources on file for that, including many postings of people reporting tests on themselves on the Atkins LJ communities.

Re: I'd heard a different story

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

source??

Only members of The Conspiracy To Keep People Ill believe this, ie the NHS, American Heart Association, US National Institute of Health and practicaly the entire medical profession. It's disputed by that well-known authority Dr Uffe Ravnskov.

Re: I'd heard a different story

[hlu.livejournal.com]

They had something in the news and in the newspapers back home in Buffalo, that the Atkins Nutritional Approach was BETTER than the AHA's diet plan!!! LOL!!! How are those apples for ya??

Re: I'd heard a different story

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Mmm, full of sugar thanks :)