First, Atkins is not a high-protein diet. If anything, it's a high-fat, low-carb, moderate protein diet. I've experienced first hand, the results of not eating enough protein. How about failure to thrive vegetarians?

Second, I'd prefer a less biased opinion than Dr. Neal Barnard. He's got his own agenda. But if that's all we've got to work with....

Read what he says about high-protein being bad. He is twisting the truth to suit his own agenda. Protein does not cause kidney damage. There is no such study to prove this. People with kidney damage cannot eat protein, but protein does not cause kidney damage. I will get you the evidence for this when I have more time to pull out my research. In the meantime, check this link. Nowhere does it indicate that kidney stones are caused by protein: http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/kid...onadul.htm#what

Fourth, Atkins is not the only LC plan. There are lots of them with varying degrees of restriction.

Fifth: The following statement discredits everything that Neal Barnard says:



Coming from a doctor, that's just plain manipulation of the truth.

Wanda