Doctors Concerned About Teens on Atkins

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Yet another attack on atkins from a "doctor" that is "concerned" about the health of carb
consumers. Wonder how much she gets paid to be on the Nutrition committee of the American Academy
of Pediatrics? And she quotes the falsified and malicious nonsense about that poor girl who died
while supposedly on the atkins diet. If falsehoods and such nonsense are the only things a
"doctor" can use to argue against atkins diet, they don't have much to go on. Shame on her.

"Falsified" and "malicious"?

A news article from the time:

``Atkins Diet Linked to Teen's Death in Missouri''

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Also falsified and malicious?
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I see no conflict of interest here as far as Dr. Sarah Hampl is concerned.

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Doctors Concerned About Teens on Atkins

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Dr. Sarah Hampl is a pediatrician who specializes in treating overweight kids.

"I wouldn't say it's ever safe," she says.

She says Atkins may seem like a quick fix, but longer term, it's a nutritional time bomb.

"At this point we don't have enough data to make us feel comfortable that its a safe diet even on
a short term basis for teenagers," Hampl says.

Hampl points to the tragic death of a Missouri 16-year-old. Rachel Huskey died while on the Atkins
diet. An autopsy revealed low levels of electrolytes, one cause of the heart arrhythmia that
killed her, and there are other risks tied to Atkins dieting.

"They also can develop vitamin and mineral deficiencies that need to be supplemented. They can get
very dehydrated. It can cause kidney stones. There's a lot of hidden risks that you don't really
hear about," she says.

Who is Dr Sarah Hampl?

She is on the nutrition committee of the The American Academy of Pediatrics.

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The headline said "Doctor*s* Concerned About Teens on Atkins". Note the plural form of doctors.
The story quotes *one* doctor. And a pretty sorry one at that.

Yet another attack on atkins from a "doctor" that is "concerned" about the health of carb
consumers. Wonder how much she gets paid to be on the Nutrition committee of the American Academy
of Pediatrics? And she quotes the falsified and malicious nonsense about that poor girl who died
while supposedly on the atkins diet. If falsehoods and such nonsense are the only things a
"doctor" can use to argue against atkins diet, they don't have much to go on. Shame on her.

TC

"tcomeau" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The headline said "Doctor*s* Concerned About Teens on Atkins". Note the plural form of doctors.
The story quotes *one* doctor. And a pretty sorry one at that.

Yet another attack on atkins from a "doctor" that is "concerned" about the health of carb
consumers. Wonder how much she gets paid to be on the Nutrition committee of the American Academy
of Pediatrics? And she quotes the falsified and malicious nonsense about that poor girl who died
while supposedly on the atkins diet. If falsehoods and such nonsense are the only things a
"doctor" can use to argue against atkins diet, they don't have much to go on. Shame on her.

TC

Missouri is on the map. Unfortunately, this time because of a teen's death associated with the
Atkins Diet.

An October 31st Reuters News story describes the case of an apparently healthy 16-year-old girl
who collapsed suddenly and died after spending one to two weeks on the high-protein, low-
carbohydrate diet.

Dr. Paul Robinson, an assistant professor of child health at the University of Missouri, Columbia
who specializes in adolescent health, reported that electrolyte imbalances due to the diet, and
the resulting heart damage, were likely responsible for the teen's death.

"Tim Tyler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:HtBxB7.I4F@bath.

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A news article from the time:

``Atkins Diet Linked to Teen's Death in Missouri''

- outreach.missouri.edunh021105.htmOpen ↗

Also falsified and malicious?

This isn't my argument, of course; but having just read this article I would have to say, yes:
it's got hysterical falsification in it *and* malicious, manipulative misinformation too. What's
more, Tim, I don't think you'd accept such a thin and slanted article if it were written on
another topic...

November 5, 2002 Atkins Diet Linked to Teen's Death in Missouri Melinda Hemmelgarn, M.S., R.D.

Missouri is on the map. Unfortunately, this time because of a teen's death associated with the
Atkins Diet.

An October 31st Reuters News story describes the case of an apparently healthy 16-year-old girl
who collapsed suddenly and died after spending one to two weeks on the high-protein, low-
carbohydrate diet.

Dr. Paul Robinson, an assistant professor of child health at the University of Missouri, Columbia
who specializes in adolescent health, reported that electrolyte imbalances due to the diet, and
the resulting heart damage, were likely responsible for the teen's death.

The teen had no known illnesses or prior medical conditions. Yet, when she arrived at the University
of Missouri's Health Sciences Center in Columbia, she presented with low potassium and calcium
levels, which are likely consequences of the high protein, low-carbohydrate diet. Low serum
electrolytes disrupt the normal electrical function of the heart.

Proponents of the Atkins diet say that other weight-loss measures including eating disorders like
bulimia or the use of diuretics were far more likely to have contributed to the low electrolyte
levels found in the teen's blood.

But Robinson explains that interviews with the teen's parents did not suggest that she had a history
of bulimia or diuretic use.

Robinson states that most kids with eating disorders, even if they're able to hide the bulimia, are
constantly talking about being fat or needing to lose weight and exercise. From what he understood
of the interview with the girl's family, none of those problems were evident.

Colette Heimowitz, director of education and research at Atkins Health and Medical Information
Services, told Reuters Health that the Atkins approach has been used by millions of Americans for
30 years, and there have been no documented cases of serious reactions or fatalities. Heimowitz
doesn't believe that the actual dietary practices that the teen followed for days or weeks could
possibly account for what the physicians are attributing it to. Instead, Heimowitz believes that
the irregular chemical levels detected during the autopsy could be associated with drugs
emergency medical personnel and doctors administered to resuscitate the teen, or with other weight-
loss efforts.

Robinson disagrees. "I don't think there is any way the resuscitative drugs would have affected
(the teen's electrolytic balance)," he said, noting that when the teen came in, she had low
potassium levels.

Very high-protein/low-carbohydrate diets result in a condition called ketosis. In ketosis, the body
has used up its preferred fuel reserves--glycogen derived from carbohydrates--and instead burns fat.
Wahida Karmally, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, told Reuters Health that
these diets can cause muscle breakdown, weakness, nausea and dehydration. They limit the intake of
entire categories of food that provide certain nutrients, such as potassium. These effects can
happen right away," she said.

"It is a worrying set of circumstances when kids die suddenly," Robinson said. Robinson urges
clinicians to keep their eyes open. "If kids come in with sudden death and they're on this kind of
diet, we really have to start paying more attention to it."

SOURCE: Southern Medical Journal 2002;95:1047-1049; Reuters News Service, October, 2002, as cited in
the American Dietetic Association's on-line daily news update.

E.

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tcomeau <[email hidden]> wrote or quoted:

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Yet another attack on atkins from a "doctor" that is "concerned" about the health of carb
consumers. Wonder how much she gets paid to be on the Nutrition committee of the American
Academy of Pediatrics? And she quotes the falsified and malicious nonsense about that poor
girl who died while supposedly on the atkins diet. If falsehoods and such nonsense are the
only things a "doctor" can use to argue against atkins diet, they don't have much to go on.
Shame on her.

"Falsified" and "malicious"?

A news article from the time:

``Atkins Diet Linked to Teen's Death in Missouri''

- outreach.missouri.edunh021105.htmOpen ↗

Also falsified and malicious?

The teenager in question had been trying all types of weight loss methods for an unknown period of
time before she tried low-carb. She died about two weeks after going low-carb. How does that prove
that low-carb diets can cause this? It doesn't. All this proves is that some "doctors" are prepared
to use such sad and tragic situations to imply false causation in malicious attacks against low-carb
diets. Yopu could have checked into this yourself and seen the obvious biases in the reporting of
this incident.

TC

"George W. Cherry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<X18Zb.359769$na.537379@attbi_s04>...

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"tcomeau" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The headline said "Doctor*s* Concerned About Teens on Atkins". Note the plural form of doctors.
The story quotes *one* doctor. And a pretty sorry one at that.

Yet another attack on atkins from a "doctor" that is "concerned" about the health of carb
consumers. Wonder how much she gets paid to be on the Nutrition committee of the American
Academy of Pediatrics? And she quotes the falsified and malicious nonsense about that poor
girl who died while supposedly on the atkins diet. If falsehoods and such nonsense are the
only things a "doctor" can use to argue against atkins diet, they don't have much to go on.
Shame on her.

TC

Missouri is on the map. Unfortunately, this time because of a teen's death associated with the
Atkins Diet.

An October 31st Reuters News story describes the case of an apparently healthy 16-year-old girl
who collapsed suddenly and died after spending one to two weeks on the high-protein, low-
carbohydrate diet.

Dr. Paul Robinson, an assistant professor of child health at the University of Missouri, Columbia
who specializes in adolescent health, reported that electrolyte imbalances due to the diet,
and the resulting heart damage, were likely responsible for the teen's death.

Old news and old nonsense.

TC

tcomeau <[email hidden]> wrote or quoted:

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Tim Tyler said:

tcomeau <[email hidden]> wrote or quoted:

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Yet another attack on atkins from a "doctor" that is "concerned" about the health of carb
consumers. Wonder how much she gets paid to be on the Nutrition committee of the American
Academy of Pediatrics? And she quotes the falsified and malicious nonsense about that poor
girl who died while supposedly on the atkins diet. If falsehoods and such nonsense are the
only things a "doctor" can use to argue against atkins diet, they don't have much to go on.
Shame on her.

"Falsified" and "malicious"?

A news article from the time:

``Atkins Diet Linked to Teen's Death in Missouri''

- outreach.missouri.edunh021105.htmOpen ↗

Also falsified and malicious?

The teenager in question had been trying all types of weight loss methods for an unknown period of
time before she tried low-carb. She died about two weeks after going low-carb. How does that prove
that low-carb diets can cause this? It doesn't.

Nor does that news article make any such claim. All it says is that there's a link.

There was: the girl went onto the Atkins diet and then died.

They even found a doctor (of some sort) prepared to claim that a causal link between the two was
"likely responsible":

``Dr. Paul Robinson, an assistant professor of child health at the University of Missouri, Columbia
who specializes in adolescent health, reported that electrolyte imbalances due to the diet, and the
resulting heart damage, were likely responsible for the teen's death.''

Of course this isn't exactly very conclusive - but then nobody claimed that it was.
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