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25.05.03, 21:40
- Dietetycy i lekarze z USA, Anglii i z Europy Zachodniej podjęli akcję
mająca na celu nie tylko uświadomic konsumentów o szkodliwości modnych
reklamowanych natrętnie tłustych diet(np.Atkinsa) ale także zdyscyplinowac
lekarzy, ktorzy w nieodpowiedzialny sposób zachęcają swych klientów do
tłustej niezdrowej diety nikoweglowodanowej.
- Program koordynuje PCRM - Komitet Lekarzy na Rzecz Odpowiedzialnej Medycyny
w USA. Do PCRM należy m.inn dr Colin Cambpell - odkrywca roli błonnika a w
diecie. Utworzono specjalna stronę internetowa na której sa przypadki
schorzeń wywołanych stosowaniem tłustych diet.
- Akcja ostrzega lekarzy propagujących tłuste diety ,że moga byc podejmowane
przeciw nim kroki prawne.
Poniżej załączam fragment oryginalnej informacji.
SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Doctors warned over risks in diet of
the stars.
- Public health
- Doctors warned over risks in diet of the stars
- High-protein eating plans promised to make us thin. Now
medical experts
- claim they may be linked to disease
- Tracy McVeigh
- Sunday August 11, 2002
- The Observer
-
- Doctors are to be told this week they may face legal action
unless they
warn patients about celebrity diets which are putting the health of a
weight-obsessed public increasingly at risk.
High protein and other fad diets now being sold through books, videos
and
magazines are potentially dangerous, according to a controversial new
international advertising campaign.
A group of medical experts claims that in an effort to beat the
epidemic
of obesity in Britain and the US, people are instead becoming
'carbophobes', rejecting healthy low-fat diets in favour of dangerous
low-carbohydrate ones. They want people to register online so they can
track health problems and encourage individuals to take legal action
where
appropriate.
In particular, the campaign will target high-protein weight loss
programmes such as the Atkins Diet, which is said to have been
responsible
for the dramatic reduction in size of celebrities including Geri
Halliwell, Jennifer Aniston, Minnie Driver, and even Aniston's Friends
co-star Matthew Perry.
- Experts have been concerned for some time over growing
consumer belief
that obesity is caused by carbohydrates and not fat, a theory expounded
by
- Dr Robert Atkins, author of the best-selling Dr Atkins' Diet
Revolution,
who believes low-fat diets encourage us to rely too heavily on
carbohydrates, which in turn causes our metabolisms to hang on to fat.
- He claims insulin makes you store fat, and restricting the
bread,
potatoes, pasta and other carbohydrates you eat will stop an
overstimulation of insulin.
- But recent studies show that the food types consumed on meat-
heavy,
high-protein diets are linked to osteoporosis, heart disease, colon
cancer
and kidney disease, and have particular complications for people with
diabetes.
- The new campaign, entitled Got a Beef with the Atkins Diet?
is backed by a
- website set up by the US-based Physicians Committee for
Responsible
- Medicine (PCRM), with the backing of dieticians in the UK and
Europe to
- warn of the health risks to long-term dieters and the legal
risks to
- doctors. Consumers will be asked to register online and to
report any
- health problems they feel that may have suffered. They will
then be
- tracked by the PCRM, a non-profit organisation that promotes
preventive
- medicine and conducts clinical research trials.
- An advert targeting doctors with the headline 'Could
Prescribing a
- High-Protein Diet Put You at Legal Risk?' will debut this
week on The
- Journal of Family Practice's website, with more international
placements
- planned.
- 'Given the health problems associated with high-protein
diets, doctors who
- prescribe them may be assuming serious legal liability,' said
PCRM's
- president Neal Barnard. 'There's no need to put yourself at
risk when
- there are safer and healthier alternatives, especially low-
fat,
- plant-based diets.
- 'Not only are vegetarians, on average, 10 per cent lighter
than omnivores,
- they enjoy dramatically lower rates of heart disease,
diabetes, and
- several forms of cancer.'
- Despite accounts of seemingly dramatic weight loss, two
recent US
- university research projects have shown that the effect of
high-protein
- diets on body weight is similar to that of other weight-
reduction diets.
- One study by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania
suggests that
- the average weight loss with high-protein diets during the
first six
- months of use is approximately 20lbs. This is not considered
by experts to
- be much different than that achieved by a low-fat, vegetarian
diet.
- High-protein, very-low-carbohydrate, weight-loss diets are
designed to
- induce ketosis, an abnormal state that also occurs in
uncontrolled
- diabetes mellitus and starvation. In the long run, ketosis
can contribute
- to a variety of physical problems, including calcium losses,
increased
- risk of osteoporosis and an increased propensity to kidney
stones.
- At the recent conference of the British Dietetic Association
in
- Nottingham, a study based on the dietary success of 5,000
people over a
- 10-year period was unveiled by consultant dietician Lyndel
Costain.
- She said that cutting out entire food groups was a worrying
health risk,
- and slammed fad diets as 'hogwash' with no basis in
science. 'Eating plans
- like the low-carb plan mislead people,' she said.
- Costain, who specialises in the treatment of obesity, said
the real reason
- people on the Atkins diet lose weight initially is simple -
they eat less.
- 'Insulin can only make you store fat if you are taking in
excess calories,
- and this diet works by restricting the overall calories
consumed. The diet
- will work in the short-term because it is low in calories -
not because of
- their theories about insulin.'
“It’s scandalous how much money is being spent to promote these risky, high-
protein, meaty diets,” continues Lanou. “For example, a Harvard study
published earlier this year in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that
high-protein diets may cause permanent loss of kidney function in anyone with
reduced kidney function. The most frightening thing about that study? As many
as one in four Americans may already have renal problems. Other studies have
shown that meat-heavy diets significantly increase one’s risk of colon cancer
and osteoporosis.”
PCRM’s summer ad campaign, “Safe Diets,” focuses on the long-term health
risks of the Atkins-like diets. PCRM also maintains a registry at
www.
