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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Re: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[vampwillow]

I haven't done the counting numbers before or after but generally, taking the occasional look at calorie counts on packaging, the difference is likely to be minimal. There is a side-effect in play though that my calorie intake in summer (heat) is lower than in winter (cold) like many people anyway, and taking my current intake from that variable baseline I see little difference in overall volume of food or total calorific value digested.

Lo-carb, for me, is about types of food eaten (eg. meat, fish, cheese, most vegetables, double cream, pure alcohol) and the generally higher quality thereof, against previously-eaten 'shovel food' (pasta, rice, potatoes, noodles, bread and other sugar-laden carb-full stuff, plus milk of which I used to drink 1+ litres per day).

Since starting lo-carb (I'm not doing 'pure' Atkins since the first two weeks as I'm not anal enough to start counting percentages of a single gram of carb!) I've not bought or eaten anything with added sugar nor lactose/dextrose/etc and I put the disappearance of migraines and reduced blood pressure down to that in great part. Overall, I'd say lo-carb has raised the quality of my food intakeb but kept the quantity about the same.