...The Bottom Line
Although short-range studies have found that low-carbohydrate diets can produce weight loss, no study has demonstrated that such diets are safe or effective for long-term use [11-14,16-17]. Atkins advocated his diet for more than 30 years and stated that more than 60,000 patients treated at his center had used his diet as their primary protocol. However, he never published any study in which people who used his program were monitored over a period of several years. Scorekeeping can be done simply and inexpensively by mailing an annual questionnaire and tabulating the results. Why do you suppose he never did this?...
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One more thing that
irked me...Atkins said that people who have had their gallbladders removed due to gallbladder disease (which just means gallstones) would just need to restrict the amount of protein/fat they eat at one sitting. Ummm...basically, I'd be starving myself unless I ate dozens of times a day - and starvation would just increase my ketosis!!!! AAAAAA!