Atkins Diet is dangerous pseudo-science

[ciphergoth]

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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[neenaw.livejournal.com]

Dr Atkins was apparently a stone overweight and died of a heart attack! My personal feelings on the matter is that there are some valid points in the diet, like eating more protein and being careful of refined carbohydrates or whatever, but really all you need to do to lose weight is consume less calories than you use. People seem to lose a lot of weight on it without getting much thinner, ime. It certainly doesn't look terribly healthy to me and this is why I don't try it!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Atkins died of a brain haemmorage following an accident.

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