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  • Title: Health and fitness series--3. Popular dietary fads: how should health professionals respond?
    Author: Griffin J.
    Journal: J Fam Health Care; 2003; 13(3):65-8. PubMed ID: 12875149.
    Abstract:
    Many magazines and health books for lay people extol the virtues of diets that produce weight loss, often rapidly and using unconventional régimes. In this article a dietitian summarises the basic physiology of weight loss and discusses three such types of diet: food-combining; "detox"; and the Atkins or high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, including their physiological flaws and possible adverse side-effects.
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