Is the news media biased against meat?

[RobertMac]

I just listened to CBS radio headline a story on the 'now conclusive' risk of low carb diets... one woman in New York City suffering from a "RARE" case of ketoacidosis. The story came via an English publication that laid the blame on The Atkins Diet and was implied as a warning for Americans NOT to eat too much meat. Any application of the most minute bit of commonsense would label this a real stretch, yet most people will hear this as another reason not to eat meat...and coming out while another BSE case is in the news??????
I hope CBB and NCBA realize what they are up against...but then :???: :help:

 

[theHiredMansWife]

How does pointing out the danger of low carb diets make them anti-meat? :???:
Americans shouldn't eat "too much meat" just as we shouldn't eat too many apples or too much lettuce.

If we base our diets on one food group to the exclusion, or serious reduction of others, that's not healthy. And that's not bias, it's just common sense.

 

[Mike]

Woman In Coma After Diet
Updated: 11:49, Friday March 17, 2006

There are new fears about the controversial Atkins diet after a woman fell in to a coma.

The 40-year-old was admitted to a hospital after a near fatal build-up up of dangerous acids.

She told doctors she had lived off meat, salads, cheese and had lost 19lbs in a month.

Doctors say the woman may have fallen ill because of her strict adherence to the low-carbohydate diet.

The diet calls for people to ditch foods such as rice and potatoes in preference for high-protein products such as meat.

Doctors from New York University wrote in The Lancet journal the woman developed a dangerous condition called ketoacidosis, a build-up of acids called ketones in the blood.

She was vomiting several times a day and became short of breath.

However, some outside experts said the case is rare and does not reflect a major health threat associated with low-carb diets.

"I think this is an isolated case. The idea that serious ketoacidosis could be triggered by a low-carb diet does not happen very often," said Dr Paul Clayton, president of the forum on food and nutrition at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

The 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."