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

Re: Ummm....

[ruis.livejournal.com]

Yep. It strikes me as being a bit daft that people are willing to use articles that are obviously wrong on some very basic points to back up the claim that something else is wrong and unscientific.

Re: Ummm....

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I thought it best to link to the whole Google News thread on it rather than one article from it - I usually find that more informative. As I indicated, it's Dr Jebb's presentation on the subject I mean to highlight.