Atkins Diet is dangerous pseudo-science

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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.

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No surprise to me that this diet has a few *ahem!* problems. I suppose the fact it seems to work for celebrities has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact they also have personal trainers, dieticians on-hand, etc etc.
I spent three years working as a researcher for the MRC and for every piece of research that says 'go left' there's another that says 'go right'. I stopped believing in recent scientific developments a while ago, better to wait until something is reasonably conclusively established rather than jumping on bandwagons.
Incidentally, Dr Susan Jebb has just appeared on the ITV lunchtime news to reiterate the point of their research. I suppose we'll just have to wait to see how many celebs start dropping off with heart-attacks.

*Lostat*