Atkins dieters ‘risking health’

DISCIPLES of the Atkins diet are gambling with their future health, a top nutrition expert said yesterday.

Wed, 13 Aug, 2003 - 01:00

John von Radowitz

Dr Susan Jebb, from the Medical Research Council’s Human Nutrition Research Centre in Cambridge, said it would be “negligent” to recommend the diet to anyone overweight.

She said the claims made for the Atkins diet were based on “pseudo science”.

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