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.

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[vampwillow]

If the government wanted to stop people smoking it could do many things that would be *effective* instead of placing a few words on the side of a packet of fags.

Governments make a fortune on taxing smoking but recognise that it is a golden egg that could be killed if they actually set out to reduce deaths from smoking and related illnesses. Governments *like* smokers because they make money for the treasury and die young, making them money at one end and saving it at the other. If they banned smoking entirely they would take an emormous 'hit' financially that would have to raise general taxation (bad thing!)

To not say something is wrong in many ways condones it.