Accusation #10:
AtkinsFacts.org "Exaggerates" Side Effects
We quote directly from the medical literature--including from studies directly funded by Atkins--documenting the extensive list of pervasive side effects.
For example, Danish obesity expert professor Arne Astrup, M.D., of the Centre of Advanced Food Research in Copenhagen, published a September 2004 review of your diet in The Lancet. [866] Long-term Atkins adherents "start to suffer headaches, muscle cramps and diarrhea," Astrup concluded. "This is consistent with a carbohydrate deficiency. They simply do not get enough carbohydrate to supply the tissues with blood sugar. That is why the organs start to malfunction."[867]
For further documentation we refer you back to the extensive studies cited in our Short Term Side-Effects and Long Term Side Effects sections.
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