PSA- please read

[ebonlock]

I just found out from my sis what happened to our cousin. It wasn't a heart attack as we'd first thought, rather a condition I'd never even heard of before called ketoacidosis. What it basically means is that she poisoned herself to death by taking in way too much protein. For a detailed description of the condition check out:

Ketoacidosis ...
The Menace Of The High Protein Low Carbohydrate Diet

Please, anyone even considering doing the Atkins diet, read this information and take it to heart. There is no diet in the world worth losing your life over.

Comments

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's terrible news. Heart attacks are just one of those things in life, that we can affect our odds for but never totally become immune to. A sad fact of life.

But something like this - it's a very popular diet, and most people have no idea it's dangerous. It feels a bit like a betrayal by society, like it's lead someone astray through very little fault of her own.

Believe me, next time someone mentions they're considering Atkins (which isn't uncommon at all to hear), I'll bring up that a good friend of mine lost a cousin, and they really need to understand what they're doing before shifting to a radical diet.

What a sad, and maddening, event. I wish this kind of thing never happened.

Best wishes to you and your family, of course.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Believe me, next time someone mentions they're considering Atkins (which isn't uncommon at all to hear), I'll bring up that a good friend of mine lost a cousin, and they really need to understand what they're doing before shifting to a radical diet.

What a sad, and maddening, event. I wish this kind of thing never happened.

Best wishes to you and your family, of course.

Thank you, and please do spread the word about this. The senselessness of it is truly appalling, but it does help to illustrate just how little most people understand how their bodies work and what they need to stay healthy. I've always argued that Atkins was not a healthy way to lose weight, but I had no idea it was this dangerous.