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

[babysimon]

I asked because I didn't know. Thanks for the abuse.

[hlu.livejournal.com]

Abuse? This whole thread is abusing thousands of peoples way of eating!

[ruis.livejournal.com]

No it isn't.

This whole thread is debating the pros and cons of the Atkins diet. Abusing thousands of peoples way of eating is when people start to force feed you all carbs.