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Atkins "Nightmare" Diet
When Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution was first published, the President of the American College of Nutrition said, "Of all the bizarre diets that have been proposed in the last 50 years...
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References 1 - 1160
[1] The Chronicle (Houston, TX) 9 March 1973.[2] The New York Weekly 26 March 1973.[3] Maryland State Medical Journal 1974:70.[4] Obesity and Fad Diets. U.S. Senate Select Committe...
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Low-Carb v. Low-Fat
Dean Ornish, Stuart Trager (CNN Crossfire)
CARLSON: Welcome back. Yet another food fight today on CROSSFIRE. For years, doctors have been telling us to cut the fat out of our diets, some of us haven't paid any attention. Bu...
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Bringing Home the Bacon
Atkins conceded that the "WORST [emphasis his]" feature about his diet is the "rapidity with which you gain [weight] if you abandon it." "But the BEST feature," he claims, "is that...
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Kidney "Scarring"
Atkins' followers also risk kidney damage.[287] Like his advice for pregnant women, Atkins once wrote "The diet is safe for people even if there is a mild kidney malfunction."[288]...
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Corporate threat rebuttal
In the face of this substantial medical evidence, most claims on your website constitute either exaggerated or scientifically undemonstrated statements, mere opinions from medical ...
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Low-Carb Diets Take a Punch
Sally Squires (The Washington Post)
Low-carb diets are in the hot seat.While the South Beach Diet and the Atkins Diet continue to tally book sales -- an estimated 30 million to date -- 11 health organizations have te...
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Consumer, Nutrition and Public Health Groups Warn Public
About Health Risks Associated with Low-Carb Diets
New Coalition Also Calls for Government Action on
(Partnership for Essential Nutrition press release)
Washington, DC; June 22, 2004 -- With mounting evidence that the low-carb craze is leading many Americans to make unwise decisions about the amount and types of foods they eat, a n...
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Alleged Atkins Diet Victim Files Suit
Jody Gorran versus Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.
(County Court of Palm Beach County, Florida)
Plaintiff, Jody Gorran, hereby sues defendants Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. and Paul D. Wolff, solely in Mr. Wolff's representative capacity as co-executor of the Estate of Robert C....
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Atkins 'Danger' Official
Sean Poulter (Daily Mail (London))
FOOD watchdogs have issued the first official health warning over diets such as the Atkins amid claims that high- fat regimes can kill.The Food Standards Agency is highlighting inc...
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Atkins Killed Our Daughter
David Jones (Daily Mail (London))
LAST Wednesday, when Paul and Lisa Huskey switched on the big screen TV in their picturesque lakeside chalet in the sprawling Missouri countryside, they could barely contain their ...
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Atkins Diet 'Dangerous'
Jenny Hope (Daily Mail (London))
THE hugely-popular Atkins Diet is medically unsound and a major health risk, nutrition experts warned yesterday.They said the high-protein high-fat diet, followed by stars such as...
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American Heart Association
Statement of the AHA Nutrition Committee
Sachiko T. St. Jeor, RD, PhD; Barbara V. Howard, PhD; T. Elaine Prewitt, RD, DrPH;
Dietary Protein and Weight ReductionAbstract High-protein diets have recently been proposed as a “new” strategy for successful weight loss. However, variations of these diets have ...
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American Kidney Fund
AKF Warns About Impact Of High-Protein Diets On Kidney Health
(Rockville, MD) The American Kidney Fund (AKF) is warning Americans about popular high-protein diets for weight loss. The diets place such a significant strain on the kidneys that ...
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Center for Science in the Public Interest
Big Fat Lies: The Truth About the Atkins Diet
Bonnie Liebman
“What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” asked the cover story of the July 7th New York Times Magazine. The article, by freelance writer Gary Taubes, argues that loading our plates w...
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Dean Ornish, M.D.
Was Dr. Atkins Right?
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in low-carbohydrate/high-fat diets such as the Atkins diet (1-3). Many dietitians and other health professionals as well as people in...
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Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
The Atkins Cancer Revolution
High protein diets, often marketed as low carb or low carbohydrate diets, are in vogue today and are heavily promoted. Unfortunately, they are also high in fat and dangerous. The p...
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John McDougall, M.D.
The Atkins Scientific Research – Deceit and Disappointment
During the Great Nutrition Debate held February 24, 2000, by the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington D.C., Dr. Robert Atkins, founder of the world’s most famous ...
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Low Carb Diets: Potential Short and Long-term Health Implications
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 12(2003):397.
Shane A Bilsborough MSc (Nutrition) and Timothy C Crowe PhD
AbstractLow-carbohydrate diets for weight loss are receiving a lot of attention of late. Reasons for this interest include aplethora of low-carbohydrate diet books, the over-sensat...
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Partnership for Essential Nutrition
Low-Carbohydrate Diets: Do They Work and Are They Healthy?
The United States is in the midst of a skyrocketing obesity epidemic. Today, more than 60 percent of American adults are overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease C...
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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Analysis of Health Problems Associated with High-Protein, High-Fat, Carbohydrate-Restricted Diets Reported via an Online Registry
IntroductionWhile a few recent studies have noted that high-protein, carbohydrate-restricted diets facilitate modest short-term weight loss,1-3 no studies to date have investigated...
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