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How Safe Is the Atkins Diet?

The Atkins Diet Seems To Never Go AwayFad
diets come and go, but The Atkins Diet, acan produce significant weight loss. It also
high-protein,produces  it
low-carbohydrate weight-loss plan, seemswithout a lot of annoying calorie counting
never  to  go  away,and  the
no matter how many medical professionalsirritability associated with diets.Known for
denounce it."Low-carb diets have been linkedEasy Weight Loss"You're not as hungry as with
to  increased  frequency  ofother  diets,  and  that  is  a
colon cancer, formation of kidney stones,really good thing," says Jenny Anderson, an
kidney  disease,Internet
and even osteoporosis," says Neal Barnard,consultant from Mamaroneck, N.Y., who is on
MD,  president  ofthe  diet.  "That
the Physicians Commission for Responsiblemakes it easier to stay on it. So does
Medicine,  aseeing  results  fairly
nonprofit research group based inquickly. One bad thing is that it forbids
Washington.  "The  weightcaffeine,  and  I
loss you see in low-carb diets isn't allhad a lot of bad headaches from coffee
that  much  betterwithdrawal."Another drawback to the low-carb
diet  is  its  severely
than what you see in studies of low-fat,
vegetarian diets."A Pretty Evil Weight Losslimited menu options."At first, eggs and
DietPutting it more bluntly is Kikubacon  in  butter  for  breakfast  every day
Collins-Trentylon,  a  sports
is fun, but day after day of only meat and
trainer in New York City, who says it's "afat  at  every  meal
pretty  evil  diet.
can get tiresome," says Anderson.So therein
We all want to sit on our couches, eatlies the controversy. On one hand you have
nonstop,  and  havelots
perfect, sculpted bodies. Unfortunately, itof stories of significant weight loss on a
doesn't  workrelatively
that way."Meat is the culprit in low-carbuser-friendly diet. On the other, you have
diet danger, says Barnard."The reason for thedietitians  and
health  worries  is  in  large  part  due to
nutritionists who maintain that the weight
red meat," he says. "People who eat meatloss  produced  is
every  day  have
short-term and can threaten a person's
three times greater risk of developing colonoverall  health,
cancer.  And
despite the fact that the weight loss itself
then there is the problem of the kidneys.may  have  the
They  aren't
beneficial effect of lowering
designed to work on an oil slick ofcholesterol.Who is right? Maybe both sides.
fat."Big, Fat, High Protein ControversyIn theIt  provides  weight  loss  at  a
summer of 2002, however, both Time magazine
and  Thevery high cost to overall health, or at
least  that  has  been
Sunday New York Times Magazine have
publishedthe prevailing medical opinion.Low
Carbohydrate Diet May Not Be As Bad As We
much-talked-about stories that say AtkinsThought"There have been reports in the
may  not  be  as  badmedical  literature  that  say
for heart health as previously believed.that this low-carb diet may not be as bad as
These  stories  werewe  thought,"
sparked in part by a recent study fromsays Susan Barr, registered dietitian in New
researchers  at  DukeYork  City.
University showing most people who ate a"That makes people interested again in this
high-protein,diet,  but  until
low-carb diet for six months lost 20there is more research on what stresses the
pounds.That much was expected. What wasn'tdiet  places  on
expected  was  that  the
the body, there is no way to know what it
researchers didn't see strong evidence ofmight  be  doing
the  diet  causing
besides providing short-term weight loss.You
any health problems. In fact, both LDL "bad"may reprint or publish this article free of
cholesterol  andcharge  as
HDL "good" cholesterol improved.Low Carblong as the bylines are included.Original
Diet Can Produce Significant Weight LossTheURL  (The  Web  version  of  the  article)
Duke study shows part of why the diet is so
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