"Patricia Heil" wrote in message
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I recently posted here that one of my concerns with Atkins is
that 68% of those who tried it, in one clinical study, wound up
constipated.

And how long was this study? Did they ever get past the first phase?
That is kind of important, as you move past induction, which is
supposed to last 2 weeks only, you are supposed to begin eating more
vegetables, and less of other things. Two weeks is not long enough to
give you long term problems, and any study that focuses on the
begining stage as if it is the whole diet is worthless as a source of
information.


That is bad for long term health. Removing fiber
from the diet demonstrably leads to colo-rectal cancer, the
third leading cancer killer behind lung cancer and prostate cancer,
and therefore the #2 preventable killer cancer.

Atkins goes out of it's way to insist on lots of fiber-- and in the
two week beiginning phase if you do not eat enough fiberous
vegetables, you are supposed to ease the *temporary* situation with
fiber supplements.


I even have
anecdotal evidence, a friend of mine was unable to tolerate any
fiber in her diet and she died about 20 years ago from colo-rectal
cancer at the age of only about 40.

I'm terribly sorry for your loss. But really you are arguing a
strawman. Atkins is not a no fiber/ no veggie diet.

revek



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