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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
"Ignoramus31542" wrote in message .. . Alt.support.diabetes readers can enjoy a reference to "ketoacidosis". I wondered when (note, not if) you'd mention this. I bet you've been having the twitches in readiness for posting it too, but unfortunately (for you) the article ****ed up. It should've read "ketosis", but you knew that anyway. -- Beav OMF#19 VN 750 Zed Thou mail is beavis dot original at ntlworld dot com (with the obvious changes) |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
Ignoramus31542 wrote:
Beav wrote: Alt.support.diabetes readers can enjoy a reference to "ketoacidosis". It should've read "ketosis", but you knew that anyway. Um, I may be wrong, but I think that the patient did have ketoacidosis, Having the article say it and having the patient actually being in ketoacidosis are two different things. There are lies in the text of the article so the entire thing could be made up. Also who's to say the patient had ketoacidosis rather than perhaps lactoacidosis. and what made me mentally note it is that it is not the same as ketosis that happens on low carb. Which was the first red flag. Probably someone who should never have attempted low carb in the first place. Certainly someone who never read the book and didn't have the faintest notion of the right way to do it. |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
Even if this is true, how often to they publish an article about a
patient dying during or after a gastric bypass. Why? Because obesity surgery is making a bunch of doctors a bunch of $$$. Heaven forbid we should find a diet that actually works, that we can do on our own (as opposed to Medifast or boxed diets like Jenny Craig). One should still have a doctor's supervision, but if your doctor is dead set against low-carb, I say GET A NEW DOCTOR. |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
Ignoramus31542 wrote:
I would like to read tha Lancet article, it could be that journalists' interpretation of it makes it sound dumber than it really was. The way the news articles make it sound makes me wonder how it could be admitted for publication. Maybe the Lancet article was about something else entirely -- such things are known to happen. No, the Lancet article was a case history of one patient who developed ketoacidosis while eating some bizarrely and calling it "Atkins." By the same logic there should be a ton of articles about how "Atkins diet causes pregnancy" and "Atkins diet burns down home". --Jenny http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes Diabetes Info http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/newlydiagnosed.htm Get Your Blood Sugar Under Control |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
This was also my thought, I'm wondering why The Lancet doesn't write articles about people who die while on heart meds or when wearing red slippers or...? -- Sherry Omigod! My mother has red slippers!!!! |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
"Jenny" wrote in message ... No, the Lancet article was a case history of one patient who developed ketoacidosis while eating some bizarrely and calling it "Atkins." By the same logic there should be a ton of articles about how "Atkins diet causes pregnancy" and "Atkins diet burns down home". This was also my thought, I'm wondering why The Lancet doesn't write articles about people who die while on heart meds or when wearing red slippers or...? -- Sherry 364/290/195 (4/3/05) http://lowcarb.owly.net |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
Ignoramus31542 wrote: I would like to read tha Lancet article, it could be that journalists' interpretation of it makes it sound dumber than it really was. The way the news articles make it sound makes me wonder how it could be admitted for publication. Maybe the Lancet article was about something else entirely -- such things are known to happen. Well, I saw at least one hint in your quote. Anyone who calls Atkins a high-protein diet is either a liar or has never read an Atkins book. -- Wes Groleau Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly. -- unknown |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
Ignoramus31542 wrote:
I would like to read tha Lancet article, it could be that journalists' interpretation of it makes it sound dumber than it really was. The way the news articles make it sound makes me wonder how it could be admitted for publication. Maybe the Lancet article was about something else entirely -- such things are known to happen. I would like to read it too, at least the summary. The timing of the news article was what hit me. On the same day two Atkins bashing articles came out. One lying about a patient being on Atkins, the other written by the liars at PCRM. To me the timing makes it look like someone's donation check cleared and they could afford a media assault. Or maybe they finally managed to snooker The Lancet into publishing one of their plant stories so they did a media release when it came out to fire from both barrels. The PCRM has stooped to lying before to bad-mouth Atkins. |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
Ignoramus29446 wrote:
Jenny, do you have the article or at least a link to its abstract? Not at hand. Try searching for "Atkins ketoacidosis Lancet" on Google Scholar. If it isn't there now it will be by next week. --Jenny http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes Diabetes Info http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/newlydiagnosed.htm Get Your Blood Sugar Under Control |
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Atkins-style diets can be life-threatening, doctors warn
Ignoramus31542 wrote:
:: On 20 Mar 2006 13:22:42 -0800, Doug Freyburger :: wrote: ::: Ignoramus31542 wrote: :::: Beav wrote: :::: :::::: Alt.support.diabetes readers can enjoy a reference to :::::: "ketoacidosis". :::: ::::: It should've read "ketosis", but you knew that anyway. :::: :::: Um, I may be wrong, but I think that the patient did have :::: ketoacidosis, ::: ::: Having the article say it and having the patient actually being in ::: ketoacidosis are two different things. There are lies in the text ::: of the article so the entire thing could be made up. Also who's ::: to say the patient had ketoacidosis rather than perhaps ::: lactoacidosis. :: :: I would like to read the Lancet article. Its reproduction by media :: sounds a little bit too stupid to be true, so to speak. Anyone know which issue of the Lancet the article appeared in? :: :: i |
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