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Article: Experts caution students should approach Atkins diet with care
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- January 23, 2004
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Sarah West
University Wire
01-23-2004
(The Reveille) (U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. -- As LSU students welcomed 2004, many embraced a New Year's resolution and vowed to become more health conscious and lose weight.
The controversial Atkins diet is often a quick answer to this popular plea for weight loss.
According to Atkins.com, the diet involves three stages. The first stage includes two weeks of a regiment of foods high in both fat and protein, while placing strict limitations on carbohydrate intake.
Many professionals have voiced opinions, but Steven Pomarico, biology instructor, pointed out that no one knows for sure if the Atkins diet is a fool-proof and safe solution to obesity.
Pomarico ...