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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Comments

Re: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[x-mass.livejournal.com]

I actually find this hard to belive as well and I'm on Atkins - I think my calorie intake is down to about 1000 to 1500 calories a day and i feel satiated all the time

Re: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[neenaw.livejournal.com]

I'm on a low fat, normal carbs diet of about the same and I don't feel hungry. Reckon it is the filling up with vegetables and eating lots of protein that counts, not the cutting out carbs.