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Originally Posted by willravel
My piano teachers wife is really sick right now. She has beeen on the Atkins diet for a very long time (possibly since the 80's). She now has abnormalities of the heart, kidney, and liver. She also has bone cancer. Her family has no history of any health problems going back eight generations.
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My Aunt is sick right now. She was never on the Atkins diet. Following your logic, the reason she is sick may be because of her high carb diet. I don't believe that, any more than I believe your friends sickness is related to a low carb diet.
People get sick. Just because she was on a low carb diet and also got sick proves nothing. I have seen no evidence of any ill effects from a PROPERLY maintained low carb diet. No kidney disease, liver disorders and especially bone cancers.
Many doctors, including my own, now endorse a low carb diet as a healthy way to lose weight and keep it off while improving heart health indicators such as cholesteral ratios and blood pressure.
I have lost some weight over the past two years following a low carb diet, but my goal was not so much to lose weight as to improve my overall health. And by all measureable accounts it has succeeded.
I lost 25 lbs, bloodpressure is now normal from being borderline high, and my cholesteral and triglycerides also have gone from being high to a healthy range. I still eat plenty of fruit and vegetables while avoiding sugars, starches and white flours.
P.S. No health problems for eight generations? So I guess they are all still living? Thats pretty unbelievable. I know of no families with no current health problems, much less eight generations.