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Article: Should you counsel your patient against going on a fad diet?(Endocrinology)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- February 1, 2005
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LAS VEGAS -- With great enthusiasm, an overweight patient announces plans to embark on a fad diet. The physician is skeptical and wants to steer the person to a nutritionally balanced, low-calorie, low-fat regimen. Does it matter which diet the person chooses?
Cathy A. Nonas, R.D., a dietitian, describes herself as "the original anti-Atkins diet person." She was so outspoken that the late Dr. Atkins refused to refer to her by name, she recalled at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.
Today Ms. Nonas, director of obesity and diabetes programs at North General Hospital in New York City, does not object to most of ...