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Unbalanced diets should be avoided so that in the future they will not face insoluble problems, Simona Marchetti writes in an article published on the website of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.
"Following the diet of Atkins, and therefore - the preference of proteins to the detriment of carbohydrates, really contributes to rapid weight loss, but over the years, the risk of heart attacks and strokes may increase by 5%," the newspaper reports.
"The percentage increases by 60% when it comes to young women who have been exposed to such an unbalanced diet for a long time." Again, the Atkins diet was made by scientists from the German Institute of Human Nutrition and Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine. British Medical Journal, they published the results of a study involving 43,396 Swedish women aged 30 to 49. They answered questions related to lifestyle and consumption of 800 different foods on average over a period of 15.7 years. Out that in 1270 the respondents noted problems with the cardiovascular system. Representatives of the company Atkins said that the increase in the risk of heart disease is not associated with a diet and "low intake of carbohydrates, proteins, accompanied by an increase in consumption," the author writes.
"Italian nutrition professor Lucio Lukin cautions against the spread of hyperprotein diets." Personally, "says the professor," I rarely prescribe such diets; it is possible to follow such diets for a maximum of 3-4 weeks and only under the strict supervision of a doctor, because longer adherence to such a diet diet can lead not only to the problems of the cardiovascular system, which are mentioned in the study, but also to kidney and liver pathologies due to the fact that these organs have to do additional work, processing the received b tree, "- the material says.
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