[Chancellor Palpatine]

I thought Atkins caused you to get a dangerous ketone buildup.

[AAABEST]

I thought Atkins caused you to get a dangerous ketone buildup.

Don't "think". Someone like yourself who engages in such activity can hurt himself and others.

To answer your question, ketones are not harmful. In fact they're a great source of energy.

[Mamzelle]

Ketone--at different stages of an Atkins-style lo-carb diet, you will "throw off" ketones in urine. You can get little test strips to monitor it, and that can be interesting to observe. I noticed when I was losing that there was a long period when my appetite went very low that I was throwing off the most ketones (waste product from your body burning fat instead of sugar--glucose).

Ketosis is not ketoacidosis.

The suppressed appetite may be a chemical "starvation" response, though I was eating very nice meals. I lost my weight *very* slowly, 25 pounds over a year's time. I was not hungry or frustrated a single moment. Men find it much quicker to lose weight than women on lo-carb.

I highly recommend it. I am convinced that overconsumption of carbs is behind our country's obesity problem.

The real indicator is the increase of type-2 diabetes in children, which was unheard-of twenty or thirty years ago. It even used to be called "adult-onset" diabetes. Now, it's almost an epidemic among children. This can't be blamed on video games or lack of exercise.