"limey" > wrote in message
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>
> "Vicky and John" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Does anyone have any good recipes for the Atkins Diet? Need some good
> > ideas for meal planning.
>
> I'm certainly not an M.D. but would like to relay comments from my own
M.D.
>
> If you are trying to lose weight, but are diabetic, do *not* go on the
> Atkins diet. It is dangerous for diabetics since it throws the body into
> ketosis. The best and safest recommendation is to stay within the
American
> Diabetic Association (ADA) guidelines.
>

You need to find a new doctor. Sheesh, it is terrible to see such basic
ignorance of medicine in a practicing physician. I am dead serious on this
and I know what I am talking about. Your Dr. is mixing up ketosis which is
of no danger to diabetics or anyone else, and ketoacidosis which is
dangerous.


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