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

[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 ;-)