Atkins diet INCREASES all-cause mortality
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free skin care · Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:47 pm

Hello,
I'm sure most of you have read in the news about a big study (involving around 130,000 people) that concluded that:

"A low-carbohydrate diet based on animal sources was associated with higher all-cause mortality in both men and women, whereas a vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality rates."

This is important because in the past, one of the arguments atkins used to put fotward was that his diet reduced risk factor levels (e.g. LDL, etc.) However, reducing certain risk factors does not mean that you're actually reducing disease incidence.

In fact, previous studies had shown that the Atkins diet increased aterothrombotic factors (i.e. cardiovascular disease) but not by way of LDL and HDL.

So... what do you think? Will this affect your food choices or not really? Did this come as a surprise?

free skin care · Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:35 pm

DarkMoon wrote:

Snowie wrote:

thanks for sharing Dark Moon Smile

It's amazing I know people who lost weight on the diet, but it's horribly unhealthy! Smile

me too... I knew someone who lost 5 pounds the first week..

i read the link you posted... it sounds like the short term effects are pleasing, but maybe not so much the long term ones.

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