Atkins diet: truth or fiction? (Letters to the Editor).I wish you had been less gentle with Atkins. Although he has gotten good press lately, reminding us of the old adage that nothing succeeds like success, he was, in my judgment, a charlatan char·la·tan n. A person fraudulently claiming knowledge and skills not possessed. charlatan (shar´l and a phony If we as physicians are to be examples to our patients, we must be categorical That which is unqualified or unconditional. A categorical imperative is a rule, command, or moral obligation that is absolutely and universally binding. Categorical is also used to describe programs limited to or designed for certain classes of people. in our denunciation DENUNCIATION, crim. law. This term is used by the civilians to signify the act by which au individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. It differs from a complaint. (q.v.) Vide 1 Bro. C. L. 447; 2 Id. 389; Ayl. Parer. of an Atkins. I read your reference (Big Fat Lies: The Truth About the Atkins Diet Atkins Diet Definition The Atkins diet is a high-protein, high-fat, and very low-carbohydrate regimen. It emphasizes meat, cheese, and eggs, while discouraging foods such as bread, pasta, fruit, and sugar. It is a form of ketogenic diet. ) and although it did expose Atkins a little, it was mostly critical of the dishonest journalist who advocated the diet in a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Magazine article. More light, emanating from AMAA AMAA Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 AMAA American Medical Athletic Association AMAA American Maine-Anjou Association AMAA Afghan Medical Association of America AMAA Armenian Missionary Association of America, Inc. , should be shed on the subject of Atkins and his ilk. Paul J. Kiell, M.D. Far Hills, NJ I thank Dr. Kiell for his kind comments about my recent "Talking About Training" column on weight loss which, among other things, took on the Atkins Diet. I didn't think that either I or the Center for Science in the Public Interest (which published the Atkins-critical paper that I cited) was going particularly light on the late Dr. Atkins and his Diet. But I certainly invite anyone who would like to do a thorough-going attack on the Atkins Diet and its basic unhealthiness to submit such a piece to us for consideration for publication. Of course, if someone would like to present a strong defense of the Atkins Diet, we would consider publishing that too. Then Dr. Kiell and/or others could go after it, and boy, would we be developing a major-league scientific journal letters column! It doesn't happen much any more, but in the old days (or at least my old days), the letters column of, for example, The Lancet, was full of vim, vigor and fun. Actually, with Dr. Kiell's other letter in this issue, we are getting off to a good hot start in this game. Steven Jonas, M.D., M.P.H., M.S. Editor-in-Chief |
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