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

Re: *shaking head*

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

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.

That's a key concept right there, educating yourself and understanding your body and making informed decisions. Doctors aren't gods, they make the best decisions they can based on what they know and what information they have on hand. Doctors and patients have to work together, they really do.