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1. 1. NBC10.com - HealthWatch - Case May Tie Atkins Diet To Acidic Condition

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   Published on: 3/18/2006   Last Visited: 3/18/2006

   Dr. Abby Bloch, vice-president of programs and research at the Dr. Robert C. Atkins Foundation -- a medical research charity run by Atkins' widow, Veronica -- said ketoacidosis was not triggered by diet and could only occur if the patient had an "abnormal clinical metabolic condition."
   
   "It is not brought on by diet unless she had an underlying cause which she and her doctors weren't aware of," Bloch said.

2. 2. San Mateo Daily Journal

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   Published on: 3/17/2006   Last Visited: 3/17/2006

   Dr. Abby Bloch, vice-president of programs and research at the Dr. Robert C. Atkins Foundation , a medical research charity run by Atkins, widow, Veronica , said ketoacidosis was not triggered by diet and could only occur if the patient had an ,abnormal clinical metabolic condition.,
   
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3. 3. Health News: Lifeclinic.com

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   Published on: 11/19/2002   Last Visited: 11/1/2006

   But Abby Bloch, a nutrition consultant for the Dr. Robert C. Atkins Foundation, said the evidence of any risk in the diet is "muddy."
   
   Studies that have shown health problems associated with high-protein and high-fat diets haven't separated the adverse effects of high carbohydrate consumption, said Bloch.
   
   Bloch said the diet's ability to force bad blood fats lower, while raising HDL, comes from the fact that when people eat fewer carbohydrates their insulin levels wane. Insulin drives the production of both good and bad fats, she added.
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   SOURCES: Abby Bloch, Ph.D., R.D., nutrition consultant, Dr. Robert C. Atkins Foundation, New York; Neal Barnard, M.D., president, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; Robert C. Atkins Foundation; Nov. 19, 2002, American Heart Association statement