Re: Please help...water fast and then atkins??
Hello #117091,
I agree with Mouseclicks assessment in reply to your post.
Professor Arne Astrup of the Centre of Advanced Food Research in Copenhagen has said: "Anyone on the Atkins diet starts to suffer from headaches, muscle cramps and diarrhoea. This is consistent with a carbohydrate deficiency. They simply do not get enough carbohydrate to supply the tissues with blood sugar. That is why the organs start to malfunction."
The minimum daily requirement of carbohydrate for an adult is 150g a day. On the Atkins diet, carbohydrate intake is restricted to one fifth of that level.
Dr. Amy Joy Lanou, director of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in America, has pointed out the health dangers of the Atkins diet...................
"A Harvard study published earlier this year in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that high-protein diets may cause permanent loss of kidney function in anyone with reduced kidney function. Other studies have shown that meat-heavy diets significantly increase one's risk of colon cancer and osteoporosis," she said.
Chrisb1.