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]

Wondering where all those people you've never heard of are coming from?

http://www.livejournal.com/community/atkins_uk/9335.html

[vampwillow]

and I had apologised to Paul and removed the link before you posted this, and in part it was because I was feeling rather under attack as at the beginning I was the only person supporting a lo-carb diet as being helthier...

Maybe I shouldn't have supported lo-carb at all, but I think the discussion would not have been so interesting.

Apologies again to Paul, but I would point out also that discussions about this article are currently all over the place, and not just connected with his original posting.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

*confused* Simon posting this was the first I heard of it - where did you apologise? Anyway, I accept your apology. I'm sure it's now clear that those like yourself who normally read my journal are welcome to share their views but calling in a rent-a-mob from anothe community was bound to be trouble.

[vampwillow]

my mistake re rent-a-mob as I forget that just because it says 'uk' in a community does not prevent non-uk'ers reading it and throwing in pointless and stoopid remarks. apology was in response to your posting on that community which you then removed, at link (if I copied the link correctly).

Frankly, I quite accept that Atkins / lo-carb sounds very stupid and in some ways idiotic. It is not how I was brought up to select and eat my food. But it works, and I've always been someone who follows empirical evidence. I miss bread and indian & thai food so much I really wish it didn't!

[vampwillow]

correction...

apologisde to Paul as soon as I saw his posting which was before I reloaded the page on which this posting was written, ie. before seeing this posting which may or not not have been before this posting was made.