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"revek" <tanirevek@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bom76l$1fjjob$1@ID-190183.news.uni-berlin.de...
> "Patricia Heil" <pjayheil@erols.com> wrote in message
> news:3FAE48AD.675B4C1@erols.com...
> > I recently posted here that one of my concerns with Atkins is
> > that 68% of those who tried it, in one clinical study, wound up
> > constipated.
>
> And how long was this study?  Did they ever get past the first phase?
> That is kind of important, as you move past induction, which is
> supposed to last 2 weeks only, you are supposed to begin eating more
> vegetables, and less of other things.  Two weeks is not long enough to
> give you long term problems, and any study that focuses on the
> begining stage as if it is the whole diet is worthless as a source of
> information.
>
>

and i have read that some people's initial phase lasts longer based on how
much they want or need to loose. Is that true?

> That is bad for long term health.  Removing fiber
> > from the diet demonstrably leads to colo-rectal cancer, the
> > third leading cancer killer behind lung cancer and prostate cancer,
> > and therefore the #2 preventable killer cancer.
>

that is a very good point. i am sure that a proponent of the diet could
bring up something to debate you on this, but i havent seen anything of that
sort yet.

> Atkins goes out of it's way to insist on lots of fiber-- and in the
> two week beiginning phase if you do not eat enough fiberous
> vegetables, you are supposed to ease the *temporary* situation with
> fiber supplements.
>
>

So does that prevent the above?

> I even have
> > anecdotal evidence, a friend of mine was unable to tolerate any
> > fiber in her diet and she died about 20 years ago from colo-rectal
> > cancer at the age of only about 40.
>
> I'm terribly sorry for your loss.  But really you are arguing a
> strawman.  Atkins is not a no fiber/ no veggie diet.
>
> revek
>
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