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Online Registry of Health Problems with the Atkins Diet

By , About.com GuideDecember 2, 2003

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Do the Atkins diet and other high protein, high fat and low carb diets have side effects? The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wants to find out.

In the fall of 2002, the committee began an online registry for people who may have suffered health complications related to high protein, low carb diets. Find out what their results were and read about another study published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that Atkins dieters had an improvement in blood lipids. Click here to read this article.
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