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- Atkins Health Risks Campaign Set To Highlight Associated Risks
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is launching a new campaign that highlights potential Atkins health risks associated with the Atkins diet, and also the legal risks associated with lower carb and high protein diets.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 09/10/2005
- Atkins Diet Misconceptions No Need To Worry
There are many Atkins diet misconceptions that people construe to be true. The major reason for this is due to the amount of advertising and other literature that fails to outline the advantages and disadvantages of some diet plans.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 01/06/2005
- Atkins Diet Warnings New Warnings Issued By Doctors
Atkins diet warnings have been announced by Doctors. The warnings are related to the low carb diet plans that Dr. Robert Atkins has made famous, by claiming that excess carbs in the diet is a real hazard and can cause diabetes. It follows years of research and years of negative press regarding the claims of those who follow the low carb diet plans.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 25/06/2005
- Atkins Diet Debates The Argument Continues
Dr. Atkins, who passed away at the age of seventy two, completed many years of research, and released his findings in the form of books in the 1970s. He has had four best selling books, recently challenging even the Harry Potter ratings. Though the Atkins diet is popular the Atkins diet debates continue regardless.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 03/07/2005
- Low Carb Controversies The Controversy Ensues
Carbohydrates. Are they a good thing, or a bad thing, does anyone have the answer? It seems that low carb controversies will continue until the proper research can be done to confirm the answers.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 17/07/2005
- Atkins Health Warnings Doctors Still Do Not Believe In The Diet
For years, professionals have argued that Dr. Atkins theory, which says that carbohydrates are the main concern with piling on the pounds, is not correct. A whopping ninety seven percent of State Registered Dieticians and professionals alike in the United Kingdom said they would not recommend the Atkins diet and have released Atkins health warnings to try to prevent people from following it.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 27/07/2005
- Atkins Diet Concerns Conclusive Evidence Eludes Critics
The fast food craze has resulted in more and more people are becoming obese, and the obesity epidemic is catching them at an early age. Fifty percent of the children going to schools were found to be obese or overweight. The reason being bad eating habits. To get slimmer and to stay fit people are opting for a variety of diets. These fad diets include the famous Atkins diet, propagated by the Late Dr. Atkins. The books written by Dr. Atkins and others on low carb dieting plans are bestsellers. However, people who are traditional in belief do not buy the low carb plan theories. In fact, many nutritional experts have raised several Atkins diet concerns relating to the diet plan.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 17/08/2005
- Atkins Diet Findings Lowers Cholesterol And Blood Pressure
There have not been many studies or research into Dr. Atkins theory that carbohydrates are actually responsible for weight gain, and not fat as is traditionally thought. Atkins diet findings are few and far between, but this is changing.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 31/08/2005
- Atkins Diet Opponents They Seem To Keep On Growing
There are so many people out there that are Atkins diet opponents that we have all spoken to one! Many of us see the results in other people, lots of weight loss and increased stamina, but still continue to be an opponent regardless of the plans high success rate, mainly because of the traditional plans that the professionals have encouraged us to follow over the years.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 14/09/2005
- Low-Carb Health Risks Many Disadvantages In The Diet
There are a few low-carb health risks that many of us know about, yet most choose to ignore these risks, and this could lead to both long-term and short-term health issues. A letter has recently been published which outlines the reasons that people often lose weight on the lower carb diets, and that the risks far outnumber the benefits.
Author: Melissa Cameron - Date: 02/10/2005
- Atkins Health Risk Doctors Launch Campaign, Warning Of Possible Health And Legal Risks.
The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is launching a provocative new campaign about the potential medical and legal risks of high-protein diets.
Author: Haley Corda - Date: 25/04/2004
- Low-Carb Health Risk The Dark Side Of Low Carb Diets
In its current issue, the Mayo Clinic Proceedings has published a letter explaining that the reason low-carb dieters often lose weight and sometimes show improvements in their cholesterol, blood sugars, and blood pressures is because they are, in essence, sickened by the diet. John McDougall, M.D., an advisory board member of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, explains in his letter that low-carb diets can throw people into a metabolic state called ketosis that also occurs during severe illness. This diet-induced condition resembles the common side effects of cancer chemotherapy with fatigue, nausea, and loss of appetite for many people.
Author: Haley Corda - Date: 25/04/2004
- Low-Carb Health Problem New Scientific Review Explodes Low-Carb Myth
In a paper appearing in the current issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Shane Bilsborough, M.Sc., and Timothy Crowe, Ph.D., expose the dark side of the low-carb diet craze. This extensive review of the scientific literature is titled, Low-carbohydrate diets: what are the potential short and long-term health implications
Author: Haley Corda - Date: 25/04/2004
- Atkins Diet Opponent Too Good To Be True
Chances are you or someone you know has been on the Dr. Atkins' Diet and has lost weight. It seems too good to be true because it is! Just because a diet produces weight loss doesnt make it a good, safe, or sound way to eat. In a culture where fad diets abound, fifty percent of all Americans are overweight and many are unhealthy. Many of these fad diets tout extremes of indulgence or of omission, neither of which is recommended by the real experts! The Atkins Diet is no different. It may leave you weighing less, but it wont leave you healthier!
Author: Angela Storm - Date: 25/04/2004
- Atkins Diet Concern Is It Healthy?
Diets low in carbohydrates and high in protein have become quite a fad in the last couple of years, primarily as a result of several best selling books like The Atkins Diet Revolution, Enter The Zone, and Sugar Busters. Although the books are written by physicians and a Ph.D. in biochemistry, they have very little support from people trained in nutrition.
Author: Mark Harris - Date: 22/09/2003
- The Low Carb Controversy Are There Good And Bad Carbs?
Should people really care that they digest potatoes faster than carrots?
Author: Mark Harris - Date: 18/09/2003
- Atkins Diet Misconceptions Does The Diet Really Deserve A Bad Reputation?
First of all, the Quack Watch is Web site devoted to fighting against all and any alternative medicine methods. Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution is among the Quack Watch's Non-Recommended Sources of Health Advice (if you go there you'll see that there's no review on this book.) It's hard to say why, since Quack Watch does not list reasons?? scientific or otherwise? for placing this book on its list - for at lease two years now.
Author: Mark Harris - Date: 17/09/2003
- Atkins Diet Warning Possible Health Risks Still Exist With The Atkins Diet
Doctors have issued another warning about the new Atkins diet, saying it might increase a dieter's chances of developing diabetes.
Author: Mark Harris - Date: 15/09/2003
- Atkins Diet Effect Learn About The Possible Health Risks
To determine the effect of a 6-month very low carbohydrate diet program on body weight and other metabolic parameters.
Author: Mark Harris - Date: 15/09/2003
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