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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[lucybond.livejournal.com]

I kept to a low-carb diet a couple of weeks back.

No bread, white flour, corn, sugar, rice, alcohol, caffiene, pasta or potatoes.

I didn't count carbs, or avoid fruit, so it wasn't exactly Atkin's, but I did find out a couple of important things from it:

1) If I live on veggie meat substitutes & veg, like my SO does, I gain weight & he doesn't, I get exhausted in the afternoon & generally tired & flabby. Ergo I needed more protein & less carbs in my diet.

2) I function better with breakfast.

So although I've decided not to follow Atkins, it has taught me something about my metabolism.

And if you follow a diet that cuts out sugar & white flour, you find yourself having to avoid a whole heap of junk. There was *no* processed snack-food to be found in the shops that wasn't high-carb. Especially in the 'low-fat' sections of the supermarkets.

Now, I have a piece of meat with my veg, while the SO has veggieburgers. I feel much better.