Atkins diet

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Originally posted by Tara
It is obvious that such a high profile person as he, would have had a major autopsy and results of this would have been made public very very quickly if there was any connection between his diet and his death.

Exactly. People asked for autopsy results to be made public so that the condition of his arteries could be made known. I find it rather questionable that the family chose not to have an autopsy performed.

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Don't you feel that it is irresponsible for doctors to put children - average age 5.2 years, suffering from seizures and NOT obesity (which is what the diet is for) onto a high protein, Atkins type diet? If a person has no fat to burn off, then why go onto the diet? Why put children, who didn't need it onto this diet? Also, it being an Atkins type diet does not mean it was the Atkins diet, as presented in his book, about which we are debating now.

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According to researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, there are many epileptic children who don't respond to modern medicines and yet they find that a low carbohydrate and high protein diet like the Atkin's diet produces ketones (the product left after the fat is burned) builds up in the blood and inhibits these seizures.
The down side of this research showed risk factors for heart disease in children.

No one is going to convince you of anything you don't want to believe. No skin off my nose. :p