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

[bootpunk.livejournal.com]

Actually, putting your body into ketosis is pretty much hard & fast science. That part at least isn't in dispute. It may not be healthy, but you're going to start dropping weight.

I think the most dangerous thing about Atkins is that most people, led on by the "high quality" reporting of the mass media, have no real clue as to what it is all about. I suspect a great many people don't read to the end of the book. The diet certainly seems to work for some people, but then restricted calorie diets always lead to weight loss, and this one has the benefits of making people feel less hungry. I know I can handle being hungry all the time while dieting, but a lot of people - maybe most - can't.

I am badly in need of shedding a lot of weight, but hopefully I'll be hitting the pool amd doing some extremely hard training in order to do so. Its either that or the goth-plan diet, but I don't have easy access to the chemicals up here.

Its actually quite ironic to see ciphergoth commenting on diets, as he has one of the nicest figures around.

[vampwillow]

Atkins / lo-carb is not *neccessarily* calorie-restricted. Indeed, I suspect my calorie intake may have actually gone UP in the initial stages, but most days now I'm eating less. That may, of course, be due to the very hot weather making me need less energy and hence need to eat less.

Muscle, of course, weighs more than fat.

I agree with your last line too ;-)