If you go to this website, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and read the experts including the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association and also read the personal stories as encountered by people who used the Atkins diet who are we to believe? I am on the side of the experts and cannot believe that a forum member with no medical qualifications knows better.catherinecherub said:Have a look at this website and follow the links on the left including personal stories,
http://www.atkinsdietalert.org/advisory.html
ally5555 said:Hana
There is data and studies that have shown low carbing is linked to kidney stones, osteoporosis and the fact that low carbers HAVE to supplement to maintain a healthy nutritional status. Your own diet was very low in , if my memory serves me - fat, calcium and vit c? I havent got the refernces but the studies were from around 5 years ago.
ally5555 said:Anecdoatally I have often found chol levels have gone up following it!
ally5555 said:We have very little data about the long term effects , the trials are small and we will never really know the real truth about atkins and Bernstein and their state of health. A previous poster has also highlighted the fact that atkins also made a fortune!!! So he really was a clever man!
ally5555 said:Dietitians have to audit their work , I have to in my clinics and I have data about pts who have lost wt and kept it off. I also audit HBA1 levels and I am getting pts in the 5s but they are not low carbing or on meds. It does of course depend on motivation - there are some who will never do what you ask !
ally5555 said:The BBC diet trials monitored pts for a year or more and found that those who were monitored did the best. In most dietetic depts they do not have time to do this as the very clinical needs of special care babies, ITU , post surgery etc require more attention . We need more dietitians in the NHS to work in a preventative and clinical role.
ally5555 said:We also need some long term trials - the idea on the other forum is ridiculous - do you think medics will look at data you provide with any credibility. There is no pre diagnosis data on diet etc !
ally5555 said:I am still thinking about my masters research - I would like to look at what diabetics are actually eating - my experience shows that people are often eating more than they think.
ally5555 said:I find in practice a simple healthy eating plan works - it is what I eat so I know it works !
Patch said:Anyone that has tried The Atkins Approach KNOWS that it is safe. All the scare mongering is to stop people that would like to try it doing so.
Why is there so much negativity towards it? Could it because it works?!?
jopar said:Yes you are right indeed, the husband in question had other complex medical health issuse, such as already had at least one heart attack amoungst other things, so adive to start the diet should have never been given within the context of this forum, and anybody with a noggin of sense would have seen that in this persons case, they really needed to work with there HCP who were privvy to his medical records, understood the interactions that his verious medications and medical conditions...
jopar said:As to DR Atkins, as I pointed out earlier, he would proclaim within interviews, that he was had no cononary artery blockages, even though he had followed his diet for decades... After his death it was discovered that in fact he did have cononary artery blockages, which one must assume he was aware of, as it seems that his widow and his personal doctor were aware of this fact, before he died.. It's no suprise that there was much media debate but the fact still remains, if Dr Atkins theory was so right, why was his arteries blocked?
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