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Why a High-Protein Diet May Make You Fatter

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. March 18, 2010.

Health expert Dean Ornish says high-protein dieters 'may lose more weight because they are losing water weight. But by the end of the year, the weight usually returns.'

The Danger of Meat-Heavy Diets

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. July 29, 2008.

The Atkins, eat-lots-of-meat diet is about as unhealthy as they come. But you'd never know it from media coverage.

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. December 12, 2007.

Author Gary Taubes challenges common myths about obesity and explains why Atkins might well have been right.