Tue, Jul-20-04, 14:53
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,504
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Plan: Modified VLCD
Stats: 456/431.2/185
BF:49%/??/11%
Progress: 9%
Location: Bristol, TN USA
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I was looking over the site and found personal stories. And, if the site would tell the truth about everything, then, people would be better informed.
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Gorran discovered that his cholesterol had shot from a pre-diet level of 146 to 23
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I remember seeing a news story on him. He was in general good health and not a lot to loose. Atkins themselves have said
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However, when you reach Pre-Maintenance and Maintenance and are no longer in a primarily fat-burning mode, it may be prudent to curtail the amount of saturated fat
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A post-mortem examination of Huskey revealed low calcium and potassium levels in her blood.
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There is no mention of whether she was taking the vitamins which is part of the program. A lot of people don't
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Mari Madlem: “Actually, I had been on and off the Atkins diet since 1998, and I had no history of any type of kidney problems or my gall bladder in my family, and I've always been athletic. In fact, I'm training for a marathon now.”
“And I experienced, after six months on the diet the first time I went on it, gall bladder disease, and I had to have my gall bladder removed. And off and on I went on the Atkins diet again, and then in 2000, I very strictly went on the Atkins diet, and my homocysteine levels went sky-high, and I developed kidney stones, which is very painful. And those were pretty much the major problems that I had was my gall bladder and then the kidney stones.”
“I never thought that they were related to the Atkins diet because everything that I would do to try to find out more information about the correlation between kidney stones and Atkins with the Atkins information in their book, it didn't say anything, that I would be getting kidney stones. And yet, when I logged onto their web page, I found that actually it's a common occurrence because of the calcium loss.”
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First, the gall bladder. If your gall bladder isn't operating right due to the diet you are on and it finally starts having to try to work right, then of course you are going to have problems! That is the exact words the doctors told me when I had gall bladder trouble.
Plus, she didn't read the book very well. It states you need a calcium supplement.
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