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Article: Atkins dieters urged to limit red meat
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2004
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After advising dieters for years to satisfy their hunger with
liberal amounts of steak, eggs and other saturated fats, the
promoters of the Atkins diet now say that people on their plan should
limit the amount of red meat and saturated fat they eat.
Responding to years of criticism from scientists that the Atkins
version of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat regimen might lead to heart
disease and other health problems, the director of research and
education for Atkins Nutritionals, Colette Heimowitz, is telling
health professionals in seminars around the country that only 20
percent of a dieter's calories should come from saturated fat. Atkins
Nutritionals was set up by Dr. Robert C. Atkins to ...