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.

[mister-sunshine.livejournal.com]

Why didn't her doctor catch it?

[kaffee-spinne.livejournal.com]

This article is informative...apparently there is a link between the diet and people with blood sugar issues: http://www.philkaplan.com/thefitnesstruth/atkinsrevisited.htm

[tyee.livejournal.com]

That's awful. Ketoacidosis is scary and it's a known risk of the Atkins diet. I'm sorry about what happened to your cousin.

[ex-declinean757.livejournal.com]

OK, this is scary. My GP tried to put me on the Atkins diet last year, and ketoacidosis was never mentioned, not by him or any of the literature he gave me on the diet.

*shaking head*

[psyfic.livejournal.com]

This is terribly sad. She probably went on the diet to help herself - to lose weight or to get "healthier". This is a real tragedy.

I just hope more people start to check out things like diets and supplements/medications more thoroughly before just starting them and not just expect their doctors to tell them everything. They can't and sometimes they just don't. Anyway, it's not the doctor's health, it's our own, so we have to take the major responsibility for it.

I'm so sorry about all this, {{{E}}}. This is like a double blow. I hope you're doing okay.

So Sorry

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

I posted the links provided here. So far the only comment I've received is that the ketoacidosis may be problamatic primarily for people with diabetes.

http://www.ketosis-ketoacidosis-difference.com/

I think any elimination diet needs to be carefully considered. I still like the eat less, excercise more approach which worked for my partner and me.