Hospitals ban Atkins diet

"Anthony" wrote in message
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"Barry Smith" wrote in message
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The BBC sent me a mail containing the following:
A BBC programme called Real Story is doing an investigation into the
diet and would like to know more about your experiences and opinions on
the subject.

If you would like to help them with their enquiries please fill in the
attached survey and email it to:

So you could send something to her to help balance out the
disinformation..

Thanks. I've emailed her my Atkins experience, tho' as I'm in the US she
may not be interested.
I don't think she'll mind.. She knew I was in Australia after all..

Hi Debbie, just wondering how long the teen was on Atkin's WOE before she
died. One article said she was 225 pounds making me wonder if she was just
starting to eat low carb. After reading about her it sounded like SADS, the
reason that teens drop dead for no apparent reason. http://www.sads.org/

Sounds like the parents are looking for a scapegoat where there may not be
one.

Nancy J

"Debbie Cusick" wrote in message
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Does anyone know who this Rachel Huskey is who gets mentioned in the
article, where they say:

"...followed the death of 16-year-old American Rachel Huskey, who died
from
heart failure after trying to lose weight.
A team of experts who investigated her death said it was probably due to
the
way the Atkins diet had upset her metabolism."

I wish I knew more about this. Have to see if I can google her up.

Debbie

"Jim Marnott" wrote in message
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UK hospitals are banning Atkins for their patients.
http://www.doatkins.com/html/index.php

Nancy Huffines wrote:
Hi Debbie, just wondering how long the teen was on Atkin's
WOE before she died. One article said she was 225 pounds
making me wonder if she was just starting to eat low carb.
After reading about her it sounded like SADS, the reason that
teens drop dead for no apparent reason. http://www.sads.org/

Sounds like the parents are looking for a scapegoat where
there may not be one.

Nancy J


Frankly, we have no idea what kind of diet she may have been on. Atkins diet
seems to be a catch-all name for all lo-carb dieting. Some think lo-carb
means no-carb, some think induction is the diet. Some think you just do it
until you loose the weight you want and then can go back to eating as
before. The mis-information amazes me. :-) BJ

"Nancy Huffines" wrote in message
om...
Hi Debbie, just wondering how long the teen was on Atkin's WOE before she
died. One article said she was 225 pounds making me wonder if she was just
starting to eat low carb. After reading about her it sounded like SADS,
the
reason that teens drop dead for no apparent reason. http://www.sads.org/

Sounds like the parents are looking for a scapegoat where there may not be
one.

Nancy J

Not Debbie, but if I may:

Rachel Huskey was a Sturgeon Missouri native, and she died three years ago.
If I remember correctly, she wasn't actually on the diet at the time. She'd
been dieting for somewhere between 8 and 12 weeks, then went off of it, or
went off it and then started it again and been on only two weeks, or
something like that. I have a vague recollection that her going off the
diet was one of the little facts they didn't mention right at first.

The investigative team (out of Columbia Missouri, I believe) pulled the
case off the shelves with an eye to using it as amunition when Taubes's
article hit in June of 02. It had been sitting on the 'back burner' as an
unsolved case up til then, I think.

The severe electrolyte imbalance mentioned (very low calcium and potassium
levels) indicates the girl was most probably using diruetics in addition to
dieting, probably without telling her mother, in the hope that it would make
her lose faster. Then again, low potassium can be caused by many things ..
including having a cardiac arrest and the drugs they give during
resuscitation. Funny how they don't mention that, not even to 'rule it
out'.

This is the original news story as it "broke" just about a year ago.
http://www.connect.more.net/lists/mo...2.11/0000.html If I were the
suspicious type, I would be noting that this story is making the rounds at
the same time it did last year. A little trick, I would think, to make the
news seem more imediate to readers without actually being inaccurate. Isn't
it interesting, that in all this time, only one person has died in this
manner?

http://www.sma.org/smj2002/septsmj02/index.cfm#stevens is the source for all
the media attention. It costs 20 per viewing for the article if you are not
a member, and I haven't found anybody yet who is, who is willing to read the
thing for us.

revek not that rich

Ah, thanks. As soon as I read the "heart arrythmia" verdict my first thought
was "lack of potassium" and later on the article says "They discovered
levels of potassium and calcium had been critically low, which could have
caused the irregular heartbeat." but of course Atkins suggests a potassium
supplement.

And none of the articles give any details about what the girl was actually
eating, what else she may have been doing, how long she was doing it. I
certainly don't think there are enough details here.

Debbie

"Damsel in dis Dress" wrote in message

Here's what I found:
http://www.sundaytelegraph.news.com....-28779,00.html
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/3945.htm
http://forum.lowcarber.org/archive/index.php/t-133583
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au...045274,00.html

Debbie Cusick wrote:
Ah, thanks. As soon as I read the "heart arrythmia" verdict my first thought
was "lack of potassium" and later on the article says "They discovered
levels of potassium and calcium had been critically low, which could have
caused the irregular heartbeat." but of course Atkins suggests a potassium
supplement.

And none of the articles give any details about what the girl was actually
eating, what else she may have been doing, how long she was doing it. I
certainly don't think there are enough details here.

It was at the height of the Metabolife clones showing up in every WalMart
and pharmacy. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she was taking one.
Along with a weak EC stack, they all contained about 20 diuretic and
laxative herbs.

--
jamie )

"There's a seeker born every minute."

In article , Debbie Cusick
writes
Ah, thanks. As soon as I read the "heart arrythmia" verdict my first thought
was "lack of potassium" and later on the article says "They discovered
levels of potassium and calcium had been critically low, which could have
caused the irregular heartbeat." but of course Atkins suggests a potassium
supplement.

What I can't believe was the way no-one felt that being 100 kilos might
be at all bad for her health.
--
Jane Lumley

Maybe not, but for an otherwise healthy teenager it is hardly a weight that
is likely to cause death.

Debbie

"Jane Lumley" wrote in message

What I can't believe was the way no-one felt that being 100 kilos might
be at all bad for her health.