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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Re: I wonder...

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i was eating a practically vegan diet prior to atkins
I was making curries from soya mince, with a varierty of fresh vegatables, pulses - I would eat this with short grain brown rice.
I bicycled pretty much everywhere -

However there were also times when i wasnt well
I would be bulimic - where i would when stressed out eat large amounst of whatever i sugar load food i could find and then vomit it around 30 minutes later

By the tiem i started on Atkins I weighed over 25 stone - I was very very good candidate for syndrome X and later diabetes. I was advised by doctors to lose weight or my life could be threatened. I had been trying to lse weight for over 5 years. I was easting small portiosn of food (as in side plate with soem rice and some curry on it) and my weight would yo-yo

Except for teh bulima episodes my diet followed a fairly classic low calorie low fat high fibre diet - in teh long term my weight just went up and up

Now I haev been on Atklns for around 6 monts I'm losing just over a kilo a week even though I havent been exercising as much as i could and would like to. I've lost nearly 5 stone (which is my half way point) my BMI has come down from around 44 I'm now around 34 to 35.