Comments on: Atkins diet suit dismissed https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/atkins-diet-suit-dismissed/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: J.T. Wenting https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/atkins-diet-suit-dismissed/comment-page-1/#comment-5032 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:57:27 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4286#comment-5032 not just that, the Atkins diet (which I followed myself for something like 2 years with excellent results and may start again soon) contains variety.
While heavy on meat and other proteins rather than carbohydrates (after all, they correctly assume that the human animal is in large part predatory or scavenger in nature) it says nowhere that that meat should be fatty…

Instead of dismissing the case on 1st ammendment grounds the court should have charged the claimant with starting a lawsuit under false pretenses and lies to the bench as he did not as he claimed follow the Atkins diet at all.

]]> By: Dr. T https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/12/atkins-diet-suit-dismissed/comment-page-1/#comment-5031 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:18:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4286#comment-5031 The problem was that the man did not follow the Atkin’s diet. Cheesecake, even if sweetened with non-caloric sweeteners, contains too many carbohydrates. Cream cheese alone has too many carbohydrates. The man mixed high fat foods with medium carb foods and, unsurprisingly, worsened his atherosclerosis. He wouldn’t have had a valid case even if informal diet advice could be subject to liability.

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