Mon, Sep-15-03, 06:14
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Senior Member
Posts: 411
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 174/163/163
BF:21.1%/18.5%/18.5%
Progress: 100%
Location: Conway, AR
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Originally Posted by rustpot
Dr Barry Groves, a nutritionist and author of Eat Fat Get Thin, says: "There is only one difference between the two diets: the quantity of carbohydrate allowed in Atkins is marginally less than in Banting's. I believe the extent that carbohydrate is restricted in Atkins is what makes it dangerous. Banting's diet was in fact more healthy."
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I have to take issue with Dr. Groves here. Apparently one can live quite a healthful life without any carbs at all. Witness the Inuits and the Kung. A famous athropologist and his colleage went a full year on nothing but meat and fish--while under close medical scrutiny--and did fine: he lost his excess weight, his cholesterol dropped (if that matters), and he had no mineral or vitamin deficiencies. It made quite a bit of publicity. Read about it here.
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