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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[tempaccount99]

once again i shall make the point that i neither know nor care about the atkins diet, and have no desire to do any reasearch on it, and i never made any claims as to the good or bad properties of it. it certainly "works", and so do many other diets. i'm not defending or attacking it, and nowhere have i done so. and yet even without attacking it, you continue to defend it. you're preaching to the wrong person by talking to me - i have no reason to study multitudes of differing nurishment schemes, as i wouldn't have time to do anything else if i did. my own mix of what i want to eat and a decent amount of exercise works just fine for me at keeping me happy, healthy and sane.

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[x-mass.livejournal.com]

I'm not preaching to you, I'm objecting to you continued assertion that I and others are closed minded for doing atkins, and that we preach about it. We get preached about low fat diets everyday and in everyway - yet because we stand up and object that's wrong

Its basically like being queer by standing up and actually saying hey this is a good thing we are acussed of stuffing it in people faces and being unthinking mystics - when its you who are being the unthinking group. you accuse me of not having open mind yet its your mind that is closed!

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[tempaccount99]

but you have been preaching to me, you have been trying to convince me that it's a rational way of life. i never asked anything about that, i never denied anything about that.

i'm happy to accept that you can do what you like, and i haven't been telling you that you're wrong for doing so, and i haven't been shoving alternatives down your throat.

what you have been doing, is continuing to quote so called research and evidence to back up your spurious claims. i don't need that. i'm happy to believe that the "atkins diet" is a diet.