Atkins and High Protein Diets

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Doctors launch campaign, warning of possible health and legal risks with high-protein diets.The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible

 

Medicine is launching a provocative new campaign about the potential medical and legal risks of high-protein diets.

 

A consumer ad, "Got a Beef with the Atkins Diet?", was listed on Yahoo.com on Monday, August 5. An ad targeting primary care physicians-with the headline "Could Prescribing a High-Protein Diet Put You at Legal Risk?"-was listed the following week on The Journal of Family Practice's Web site. Additional placements will follow.

 

Both ads can be viewed now at the campaign's site, http://www.AtkinsDietAlert.org.

 

Central to the new Web site is an online registry with which PCRM will track adverse health effects from high-protein diets. Anyone who has been on a high-protein diet and believes he or she developed health problems because of it-or anyone who has just begun one of these diets-is invited to register.

 

Studies show that the foods consumed on meat-heavy, high-protein diets are linked to osteoporosis, heart disease, colon cancer, and renal disease, and have particular complications for people with diabetes.

 

The Web site also resolves common diet myths. For example, people who subscribe to the myth that Americans have gotten fatter while fat intake has dropped will learn that the fat content of the American diet has actually risen over the years. Although the percentage of fat has gone down, Americans are eating so many more pounds of food that the total amount of fat has increased.

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For a few months I was going to the gym to try to bulk/tone up a little... and I'd take these protein supplements that probably doubled or tripled the amount I usually get in a day. After a while they made me feel really nauseous... I just couldn't take them anymore. I wonder if that's related to this somehow.