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: I wonder...

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. I know cakes and things are my healthy eating downfall. Also if you do eat huge amounts of fruit and veg it does fill you up quite well, which would lead to eating less calorific stuff.

I ought to look for a paper I once saw which showed that people who keep track of what they eat, whether they're following any particular plan or not, eat significantly less.

Re: I wonder...

[vampwillow]

so those who eat whilst sleep-walking get fat? ;-)

hmmmn. didn't know I'd been eating without looking first! Could explain what I get up to in the dark ;->