Atkins Diet

[joytest999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Renee Gunn" <nee1 at w...> wrote:
>   lowering carbs severly, which is what a lot of people who follow 
Dr. Atkins and the Zone do is unhealthy.  
> 

How do you know that?  I've always heard that, as well, but a recent 
article in the New York Times Magazine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/07FAT.html

says that the claims by the AMA and other mainstream medical and 
health organizations that low carb diets are unhealthy are based on 
absolutely NO evidence, research or studies at all.  This guy says 
that there is also no evidence that low carb, high protein diets 
cause the heart or kidney problems that the medical establishment 
says they will.

I've just read thru the thread on diets and lots of people on this 
group say that low carb diets are unhealthy, but are any of you 
basing this on actual scientific evidence?

I'm not trying to be combatative, I'm just really fascinated by this 
whole dispute -- since the author of the Times article makes a good 
case for his position that the medical establishment is just wrong on 
this one.  I'm also not advocating Atkins or any other diet -- I'm 
not on one, although I probably should be -- but I know that lots of 
people don't lose weight on low-fat diets.

I'd love to know what people think of the Time article.

--Joywitch M. Curmudgeon, who hasn't dropped by OTC in a long time 
and is glad to see that things are hoppin' here