<b>Sun Tzu</b>
I believe you're taking me wrong. I was not calling the posters names. I was talking about the article about kidney damage that Meaty Urologist linked to. The "uninformed" comment was to people who think Atkins is a "lose weight and get off it" diet like typical fad diets.
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There are NO studies that show any chance of kidney damage. I challenge to post a medical study which shows this.
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The "official" atkins answer is this:
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Doesn't all the protein you eat when doing Atkins cause kidney and liver problems?
These are two of the most popular myths perpetuated about Atkins. There are no studies showing that Atkins causes kidney or liver problems in healthy individuals. In fact, at The Atkins Center, we constantly monitor our patients’ lab results for changes in kidney and liver function. There are research trials that looked at liver and kidney and heart function, with participants on ketogenic diets similar to the Atkins approach in which no negative effects were observed. Also, when we did a follow-up of more than a year on patients at The Atkins Center, including checking their kidney and liver functions, there was no adverse effect. Of course patients in kidney failure are extremely restricted in everything they consume, including water, so Atkins would not be appropriate for them.
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http://atkins.com/helpatkins/faqs/faqmyths.html
If you have studies that show kidney damage from a low-carb diet in healthy adults, I'd love to see your links.
As to the AHA comment, I believe you read me wrong there too. The AHA Step One diet appears to be a healthy weight loss diet. However, in two trials it has been shown to be either not as good or just as good as atkins in terms of weight loss, and worse than atkins in terms of heart health.
The first study showed that people following the Atkins diet had much better success than people following the Step One diet, both in weight and in heart numbers.
http://atkins.com/Archive/2002/8/27-699825.html
The second study was a double blind study using the AHA step one and the Atkins diet. In this one, no one was given any coaching or assistance. Over six months, both sets only lost a modest amount of weight, but the atkins dieters had statistically significant improvements in heart numbers. One thing to take away from this study is that most people don't follow diets, no matter what diet it is.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/...ct/348/21/2082
If you have evidence about problems with Atkins, I would love to discuss your findings. Post away. My problem was with people just googling for any old web site and posting their search results. Properly followed, I don't believe that atkins is dangerous or unhealthy. Quite the opposite.