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The Atkins diet
June Eulberg
Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 10:55 AMre: The Atkins diet
Sarah
Friday, August 15, 2008 at 09:42 AMI agree! I found this on a website http://www.lowcarb.ca/tips/tips011.html
But, isn't ketosis dangerous?
Being in ketosis by following a low carbohydrate diet is NOT dangerous. The human body was designed to use ketones very efficiently as fuel in the absence of glucose. However, the word ketosis is often confused with a similar word, ketoacidosis.
Ketoacidosis is a dangerous condition for diabetics, and the main element is ACID not ketones. The blood pH becomes dangerously acidic because of an extremely high blood SUGAR level (the diabetic has no insulin, or doesn't respond to insulin .... so blood sugar rises ... ketones are produced by the body to provide the fuel necessary for life, since the cells can't use the sugar). It's the high blood sugar, and the acid condition that is so dangerous. Ketones just happen to be a part of the picture, and are a RESULT of the condition, not the CAUSE. Diabetics can safely follow a ketogenic diet to lose fat weight ... but they must be closely monitored by their health care provider, and blood sugars need to be kept low, and stable.
Actually I have tried everything and Atkins is the only diet that really has worked for me, I take a multi vitamin everyday and eat plenty of salads.
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I disagree with the author. The author assumes that the lowfat diet has had clinical testing and is better than diets such as atkins. Nothing could be furthur from the truth. The need to limit sugar and hydronated fat from the diet makes sense.It doesn't make sense to limit fat in meat and fish etc. If and when a clinical test is done against the atkins diet proving it as unhealthy then I will listen. Quoting biased health experts who don't know the facts is boring. Our bodies need fat also and it doesn't make us fat faster. Sugar and hydrogenated fat does.