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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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.

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What amuses me is that all these people are jumping on the Atkins bandwagon when it's only been around for a few years, whereas a diet which dates back to Biblical times (vegetarianism) is still seen as stupid, radical, and something only hippies practice.

Yet there are very, very few longterm vegetarians who are overweight.

So...thousands of years and entire cultures or thousands of days and one man? Who are you betting your health on?

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The veggies=slim thing is an urban legend. A fat veggie writes.

Most of the longterm veggies and vegans I know are slightly overweight.