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Atkins Diet: Bodies
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It was exactly what millions of obese Americans wanted to hear: Diet guru Robert Atkins has been right all along; conversely, the "medical establishment" that has routinely criticized him has been entirely wrong. Unlimited-calorie, high-fat meals are the key to low-fat bodies. So claimed award-winning science writer Gary Taubes in an 8,000-word New York Times Magazine blockbuster that appeared last July, "What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?"
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Unpleasant side effects can occur with the Atkins diet. To start with, burning fat results in the production of substances called ketones as your body enters a state called ketosis. This can result in bad breath, tiredness, weakness, dizziness, insomnia and nausea. Constipation may ... occur as a consequence of avoiding typically high-fibre foods such as fruit, veg, beans, wholewheat pasta, brown rice, wholegrain breakfast cereals and jacket potatoes.
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Dr atkins diet claims that it causes the body to burn fat instead of just water. Their professed indicator that this is happening is that you go into a metabolic state called ketosis (which is measured by the presence of ketone acids in your urine). Now, ketosis is what the body does when it is starving, fasting, or ill with a diabetes like reaction. It is not a healthy state to be in, and any starvation diet will get you there. Anorexics go into ketosis.
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In one of the studies, during the first three months, those assigned to the Atkins diet lost an average of 6.8% of their body weight, compared with a 2.7% loss in the low-fat diet group. Similar results were seen after 6 months. But, and this is very important, after 12 months participants in both groups had regained a portion of the weight they had lost, and while the total amount of weight loss was marginally greater in the Atkins group, the difference was no longer statistically significant.
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Dansinger ML, Gleason JL, Griffith JL, et al. One year effectiveness of the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone diets in decreasing body weight and heart diesease risk. Presentation at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, November 12, 2003, Orlando, Fla. In press.
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When the chief health officer for the State of Maryland,[2] was asked "What's wrong with the Atkins Diet?" taking an overdose of sleeping pills? You are placing your body in jeopardy." He continued "Although you can lose weight on these nutritionally unsound diets, you do so at the risk of your health and even your life."[3]
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