Fwd: [100% veg*n ] US Teen Dies After Following High-Protein Diet

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Thank you for the information.

 

This is horrible; right here in our state of Missouri,

as well. This is an example of the dangers of eating

animals.

 

All of us need practice a vegan diet. For our health,

life, environment and well-being.

 

Please, everyone, work together on this. We can make a

difference in making this world a better and healthier

place to live.

 

God Bless,

 

Jack Truman

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--- EBbrewpunx wrote:

> US Teen Dies After Following High-Protein Diet

> Thu Oct 31, 1:50 PM ET

> By Dana Frisch

>

> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Missouri doctors

> describe the case of an apparently healthy

> 16-year-old girl who collapsed suddenly and died

> after spending one to two weeks on a high-protein,

> low-carbohydrate diet.

>

>

>

> Electrolyte imbalances due to the diet, and the

> resulting damage to her heart function, were likely

> responsible, the physicians who cared for her report

> in a recent issue of the Southern Medical Journal.

> The girl had no known illnesses or medical

> conditions.

>

>

> The teen had low potassium and calcium levels when

> she arrived at the University of Missouri Health

> Sciences Center, most likely as a consequence of the

> diet, the doctors state in their report. This

> disrupted the normal electrical function of her

> heart, leading it to stop and causing her to

> collapse, they write.

>

>

> Dietitians and proponents of the Atkins diet, one

> example of a low-carbohydrate/high-protein diet, say

> that other weight-loss measures including eating

> disorders like bulimia or the use of diuretics were

> far more likely to have contributed to the low

> electrolyte levels found in the teen's blood.

>

>

> Dr. D. Paul Robinson, a co-author of the paper, said

> in an interview that while there might be other

> explanations for the teen's death, including an

> abnormal heart rhythm, interviews with her parents

> did not suggest that she had a history of bulimia or

> diuretic use. Robinson is an assistant professor of

> child health in the division of adolescent medicine

> at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

>

>

> " Most kids with eating disorders, even if they're

> able to hide the bulimia, they're constantly talking

> about being fat or needing to lose weight and

> exercise, " Robinson said. " My indication, from what

> I understand of the interview with this girl's

> family, is that none of these things were the case. "

>

>

>

> Colette Heimowitz, director of education and

> research at Atkins Health and Medical Information

> Services, told Reuters Health that the Atkins

> approach has been used by millions of Americans for

> 30 years now, and there have been no documented

> cases of serious reactions or fatalities.

>

>

> " The actual dietary approaches or practices that

> this particular teenager followed for days or weeks

> couldn't possibly account for what (the physicians

> are) attributing it to, " said Heimowitz. She noted

> that the irregular chemical levels detected during

> the autopsy could be associated with drugs emergency

> medical personnel and doctors administered to

> resuscitate the teen, or with other weight-loss

> efforts.

>

>

> Robinson disagrees. " I don't think there is any way

> the resuscitative drugs would have affected (the

> teen's electrolytic balance), " he said, noting that

> when the teen came in, she had low potassium levels.

>

>

>

> Very high-protein/low-carbohydrate diets result in a

> condition called ketosis. In ketosis, the body has

> used up its preferred fuel reserves, glycogen

> derived from carbohydrates, and instead burns fat.

> This generates substances called ketone bodies,

> which can be smelled in the breath.

>

>

> Wahida Karmally, a spokesperson for the American

> Dietetic Association, told Reuters Health that these

> diets can cause muscle breakdown, weakness, nausea

> and dehydration. They limit the intake of entire

> categories of food that provide certain nutrients,

> such as potassium, she explained. " These effects can

> happen right away, " she said.

>

> " It is a worrying set of circumstances when kids die

> suddenly, " Robinson said. " The whole point of

> writing the paper is to ask clinicians to keep their

> eyes open. If kids come in with sudden death and

> they're on this kind of diet, we really have to

> start paying more attention to it. "

>

> SOURCE: Southern Medical Journal 2002;95:1047-1049.

>

>

 

 

 

 

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Thank you for the information.

 

This is horrible; right here in our state of Missouri,

as well. This is an example of the dangers of eating

animals.

 

All of us need practice a vegan diet. For our health,

life, environment and well-being.

 

Please, everyone, work together on this. We can make a

difference in making this world a better and healthier

place to live.

 

God Bless,

 

Jack Truman

Pastor

The Universal Equalitarian Church

" Where All Species Are Created Equal "

http://www.equalitarian.tripod.com

--- EBbrewpunx wrote:

> US Teen Dies After Following High-Protein Diet

> Thu Oct 31, 1:50 PM ET

> By Dana Frisch

>

> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Missouri doctors

> describe the case of an apparently healthy

> 16-year-old girl who collapsed suddenly and died

> after spending one to two weeks on a high-protein,

> low-carbohydrate diet.

>

>

>

> Electrolyte imbalances due to the diet, and the

> resulting damage to her heart function, were likely

> responsible, the physicians who cared for her report

> in a recent issue of the Southern Medical Journal.

> The girl had no known illnesses or medical

> conditions.

>

>

> The teen had low potassium and calcium levels when

> she arrived at the University of Missouri Health

> Sciences Center, most likely as a consequence of the

> diet, the doctors state in their report. This

> disrupted the normal electrical function of her

> heart, leading it to stop and causing her to

> collapse, they write.

>

>

> Dietitians and proponents of the Atkins diet, one

> example of a low-carbohydrate/high-protein diet, say

> that other weight-loss measures including eating

> disorders like bulimia or the use of diuretics were

> far more likely to have contributed to the low

> electrolyte levels found in the teen's blood.

>

>

> Dr. D. Paul Robinson, a co-author of the paper, said

> in an interview that while there might be other

> explanations for the teen's death, including an

> abnormal heart rhythm, interviews with her parents

> did not suggest that she had a history of bulimia or

> diuretic use. Robinson is an assistant professor of

> child health in the division of adolescent medicine

> at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

>

>

> " Most kids with eating disorders, even if they're

> able to hide the bulimia, they're constantly talking

> about being fat or needing to lose weight and

> exercise, " Robinson said. " My indication, from what

> I understand of the interview with this girl's

> family, is that none of these things were the case. "

>

>

>

> Colette Heimowitz, director of education and

> research at Atkins Health and Medical Information

> Services, told Reuters Health that the Atkins

> approach has been used by millions of Americans for

> 30 years now, and there have been no documented

> cases of serious reactions or fatalities.

>

>

> " The actual dietary approaches or practices that

> this particular teenager followed for days or weeks

> couldn't possibly account for what (the physicians

> are) attributing it to, " said Heimowitz. She noted

> that the irregular chemical levels detected during

> the autopsy could be associated with drugs emergency

> medical personnel and doctors administered to

> resuscitate the teen, or with other weight-loss

> efforts.

>

>

> Robinson disagrees. " I don't think there is any way

> the resuscitative drugs would have affected (the

> teen's electrolytic balance), " he said, noting that

> when the teen came in, she had low potassium levels.

>

>

>

> Very high-protein/low-carbohydrate diets result in a

> condition called ketosis. In ketosis, the body has

> used up its preferred fuel reserves, glycogen

> derived from carbohydrates, and instead burns fat.

> This generates substances called ketone bodies,

> which can be smelled in the breath.

>

>

> Wahida Karmally, a spokesperson for the American

> Dietetic Association, told Reuters Health that these

> diets can cause muscle breakdown, weakness, nausea

> and dehydration. They limit the intake of entire

> categories of food that provide certain nutrients,

> such as potassium, she explained. " These effects can

> happen right away, " she said.

>

> " It is a worrying set of circumstances when kids die

> suddenly, " Robinson said. " The whole point of

> writing the paper is to ask clinicians to keep their

> eyes open. If kids come in with sudden death and

> they're on this kind of diet, we really have to

> start paying more attention to it. "

>

> SOURCE: Southern Medical Journal 2002;95:1047-1049.

>

>

 

 

 

 

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Jack:

 

Thanks for posting this article. I took the

opportunity to post a copy of this also in my 'Food

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Thanks also to the modorator & owner here for allowing

articles and other information that are, or might be,

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