Atkins Diet Pros and Cons

The Atkins Diet Pros and Cons

Pros and cons of the Atkins Diet - you should note that this site does not provide medical advice, the information here is based on several reports on the pros and cons of the atkins diet, most of which are linked to in the text.

Atkins Diet Pros

Research in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that people on the high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet lose twice as much weight over six months as those on the standard low-fat diet recommended by most major health organizations.

The 132 men and women in the Veterans Affairs Department study, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, started out weighing an average of 286 pounds (129 kilograms). After six months, those on the Atkins diet had lost an average of 12.8 pounds (5.8 kilograms), those on the low-fat diet 4.2 pounds (1.9 kilograms).

The other study involved 63 participants who weighed an average of 217 pounds (98 kilograms) at the start. After six months, the Atkins group lost 15.4 pounds (6.9 kilograms), the group on the standard diet 7 pounds (3.1 kilograms).

Atkins Diet Cons

Research led by Dr Dominique Michaud of the US National Cancer Institute, and Charles Fuchs of the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, suggests that a diet high in carbohydrates may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in sedentary and overweight women. The study is the first to implicate a modifiable risk factor other than smoking in the development of pancreatic cancer.

On the BBC (UK) website an article written about the views of researcher Professor David Barker, of the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton, details the dangers of not eating the right things in the build up to getting pregnant, and states that, there could be damaging long-term effects.

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