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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Re: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Well, that depends on what 'eating less' actually means.

I eat about the same number of calories as I did, according to my calculations - about 2100, or thereabouts. The difference is that now most of those calories come from fats, some from meat and a few from vegetables rather than most of them from pasta and potatoes.

The difference is that I now eat around 30g of carbohydrate a day rather than 300g. And I've lost 30lbs. I also feel less hungry. I could eat a low fat meal and still be roaming the house looking for a snack due to the carbs making me hungry. A truly low fat diet (which I was on in the mid '80s) made me very ill indeed.