The Atkins diet- Possible Health Risk- Is really this diet safe?

[HFWorld]

People which are following Atkins diet eat large amounts of protein and fat.

Doctors from New York University wrote in The Lancet journal of a 40-year-old woman who developed a dangerous condition called ketoacidosis, a dangerous buildup of acids called ketones in the blood which can lead to patients falling into a coma.

Ketones are produced in the liver when insulin levels fall due to starvation or diabetes.

"Our patient had an underlying ketosis caused by the Atkins diet ..."

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Is really this diet safe ?
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[dreww]

Wow, must have been the protein...not the ungodly amount of fat she was probably eating like most atkins followers do.

 

[modizzle]

That's not healthy,...eating that much fat and not exercise...