[geeks] Booze and Religion

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Best diet I have ever been on: exercise with careful eating. Has
helped me lose 10 pounds since Christmas, though I would love to lose
more rapidly. I guess that loss will speed up as I get in better
shape. 


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From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Booze and Religion


> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:21:12PM -0600, Amy wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:19:24PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote: 
> > > > I'm also O+. I guess as I don't eat meat (and haven't for
> > > > nearly 15 years) and as I eat wheat, I should just fall over
> > > > dead. Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't feel like doing
> > > > that.
> > > > > > >
> > > What truly scares me is the idea of being a diabetic vegan on
> > > the atkins diet.  But, thankfully I'm not diabetic or vegan
> > > (not a big meat eater, but do like some), and I think that the
> > > Atkins diet is mainly for idiots (although some of the spin off
> > > diets could potentially be OK I guess). 
> > 
> > idiots? how so? i've known plenty of people who are on it (as i
> > am currently) and you do lose weight if you stick to it.
> > 
> > any diet is dangerous if you're not under medical supervision,
> > mind. 
> 
> True.  The danger is (and this is second hand information) that
> more than most diets, the Atkins is actively encouraging you to do
> dangerous things that can cause ketone acidosis (spelling is
> probably all wrong), which is a major problem and indicates that
> you have extremely high blood sugar.   
> 
> From what I hear, the Atkins diet is so bad that if you are under
> the  supervision of a Doctor, that it isn't really going to be the
> atkins diet anymore.
> 
> I'm not saying that low carb diets are an awefull way to loose
> weight, just that the Atkins no-carb diet just sounds stupid.
> 
> But then, as I said, my information on that particular diet is all
> second hand from people advocating it (mostly, a little from
> detractors).  I haven't bought and read the books.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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