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Atkins Diet Plan -- Are Low Carbs Diets Doomed?
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The Atkins Diet Plan & Cardiovascular Risk
Medically speaking, it is incorrect to associate Dr. Atkins' fatal heart attack to the use of his low Carb diet. Recently, a few good studies have reported on the effectiveness of the Atkins Diet Plan and other low Carb diets.
In short, low Carb diets, measured at one year, are safe and effective in helping dieters lose weight.
Like all diet types, the evidence for long term effectiveness (2 to 5 years) is sparse and inconsistent.
Cardiovascular risk increases for some dieters on low Carb diets, not because of the carbohydrate restriction, but because of the consumption of foods high in fat.
Article:
harmonious to Veronica Atkins, the widow of Dr. Robert Atkins, the force of his death was from falling on a slippery sidewalk with subsequent irreversible liver damage (from a CNN interview, February, 2004). Many critics of the Atkins Diet Plan wrench the fall was due to a heart attack. This has not been verified to date.
He was 72 years old.
With all due respect to Veronica Atkins, I would like to plunge into Dr. Atkins did in fact suffer a fatal heart attack. This is in order to cohere the following questions...- Is it right to use his death as evidence opposite the safety of the Atkins Diet Plan and other low Carb diets?
- Does the recent unsuccessfulness of the Atkins Corporation provide evidence for the ineffectiveness of low Carb diets?
- Many critics of low Carb diets say yes to both questions, but are they right?
The Atkins Diet Plan & Cardiovascular Risk
Medically speaking, it is incorrect to teamwork Dr. Atkins' fatal heart means to the use of his low Carb diet. There are two reasons for transient to this conclusion.- The increased risk for cardiovascular events implicated with Atkins Diet Plan are not from restricting carbohydrates. Instead, the higher risk of cardiovascular events comes from replacing carbohydrates with foods high in saturated fats.
- Dr. Atkins died at the age of 72. without the age of 72, the risk for a cardiovascular event is the same for everyone. Granted, he was diagnosed with a cardiomyopathy (diseased heart muscle) when he was 69 and he suffered a heart ailment in early 2004.
However, both events occurred well eclipsing the age of 55...the cut off used for men to extradite an increased risk for cardiovascular events to their first degree relatives. He was at an age which allows for the exclusion of any significant cardiovascular risk passing to his children.
From an epidemiology view point, risk behaviors like smoking or eating a high fat diet are no longer considered as primary contributors in Dr. Atkins' death.
Yes, eating a high fat diet may have played a role, but this is only speculation. cause Dr. Atkins was 72 at the time of his death, no risk for similar events is passed onto his first degree relatives and the risk for cardiovascular events is the same for everyone at that age.
With all due respect, he died of old age. To denounce the Atkins Diet Plan and low Carb diets in general is medically irresponsible. At 72 years old, there are several factors to consider when faced with a fatal heart attack, including the aging process itself.
Veronica Atkins was quoted by CNN...
'My husbands health at the time of his death is a sad and distracting sideshow, taking time away from an intelligent debate of the known science.'
For a more detailed discussion on cardiovascular risk and age, please visit...
www.medscape.com
Low Carb defeat -- Evidence for its Ineffectiveness?
The only correct way to measure a diet's effectiveness (or lack there of) is to study the evidence provided by medical trials. Recently, a few good studies have reported on the effectiveness of the Atkins Diet Plan and other low Carb diets.
In short, low Carb diets, measured at one year, are safe and effective in helping dieters lose weight.
Like all diet types, the evidence for long term effectiveness (2 to 5 years) is sparse and inconsistent.
Cardiovascular risk increases for some dieters on low Carb diets, not whereas of the starch restriction, but seeing of the consumption of foods high in fat. Also, sticking with the low Carb diet appears to be tough for most dieters as well as one year.
And lastly, low Carb diets that promote long stages of measurable ketosis may warrant rapid weight loss that is too extreme. This is a great way to guarantee weight regain in the near future.
Conclusion
Atkins death, from whatever the cause, can not be correlated with his diet seeing as how he was 72 years old at the time of his death. Even if Dr. Atkins' death could be simultaneous with his diet, no correlations could be made to similar low Carb diets, too much variation exists betwixt and between them.
Bankruptcy does not have place in a scientific discussion of a diet's effectiveness.
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