Posted on 06/29/2004 5:00:37 AM PDT by Walkin Man
Atkins diet makes women infertile, interferes with genetic imprinting
29 Jun 2004
If you are a woman and you are on the Atkins diet, you may have a problem if you want to start a family, say scientists. A high protein diet could be make it more difficult for a women to conceive.
Scientists at the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Englewood, USA, have come to this tentative conclusion after carrying out a study on mice.
Dr. David Garner, lead researcher, said "Although our investigations were conducted in mice, our data may have implications for diet and reproduction in humans."
He said that a diet which consists of 25% (or more) protein disrupts the development of mice embryos.
Dr. Garnes believes the same problem may appear in humans.
There is a genetic process called ‘imprinting’. This controls the activity of genes inherited from the mother and father. A high protein diet seems to interfere with this process.
The scientists had two groups of mice. They fed one group on a diet of 25% protein and the other group on 14% (protein). Four weeks after being on this diet they mated.
Only a third of the mice (36%) on the high protein diet developed with a normal H19 gene, as opposed to 70% of the other group.
Only 65% of the embryos from the high protein group developed into baby mice while 81% of the lower protein group embryos developed into baby mice.
They also found that the fetuses in the high protein group developed more slowly than the other group. They also found more defects in the baby mice from the high protein group.
AAAAARGHH!!!!
Oh, great! Now they'll promote Atkins as a form of birth control!
Geez, this is silly.
Headline: Atkins diet makes women infertile
Story: Dr. Garnes believes the same problem MAY appear in humans
Yep, I'm convinced.
What a headline for the gist of the story.
How did homo sapiens make it to 8,000 BC, prior to which there were no wheat fields or rice fields or any farming whtsoever?
heh heh :)
That is plain stupid. Kids don't need to carb count.
(That said, I may consider eating there because the moment my 2 year-old spots a french fry all other foods become nonexistent.)
Translation:
Atkins diet makes nutritionists insane, interferes with big food company profit margins.
Thereby provoking a flurry of shallow, poorly researched "studies" intended to defend the status quo.
Interferes with profit margins? I hardly think so, you see how expensive the "low carb" alternatives are.... please. Diet fad is making lots of big companies very wealthy.
Fat chicks aren't having lots of babies.... cause unless men get "beer goggles" sex isn't an option... therefore less children are created.
Women who've had kids that want to lose some excess weight don't want to get pregnant again and gain it all back. Therefore their fertility rate is decreased as well.
of course that's only my opinion....... and I could be wrong.
>> The scientists had two groups of mice. They fed one group on a diet of 25% protein and the other group on 14% (protein).
The only thing scientists have possibly 'proven' is that a High-Protein diet causes a degree of infertility in rats.
I and my girlfriend tried Atkins. She loved it and I couldn't stay on it longer than two weeks.
What worked for me is plain counting calories, eating whatever while Atkins was great for her.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Look around you -- obesity is a plague on America's children. If Ruby's can offer parents a choice to induce their kids to eat fewer carbs during ONE MEAL, great! My six year old daughter is starting to become fat, and the struggle to keep her away from corn syrup laden junk food, bread, rice and potatoes is *EXTREMELY* difficult -- she still eats a lot of these but for example in the morning we have convinced her to just eat fruit, a major victory for us, but it is just one small battle in a long war, and only a partial victory since these still have carbs
As for the article, I am *VERY* suspicious, particularly of the timing. If what they say is correct, there would be NO ESKIMOS, and NO HUMANS since we ate a very high protein diet as cavemen.
See this for what it is: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt funded by the big food conglomerates, Archer Daniels Midland, General Mills, potato farmers and rice farmers, or perhaps industrial bakers (you know, the ones who make these white doughy pieces of cardboard they convince is "bread"), or maybe "Krispy Kreme"...
Ubiquitous, too.
For the past couple of weeks, you can't hardly turn around without hearing someone or other up on a soapbox preaching against the Evils of Atkins.
I smell a seminar campaign.
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