Atkins Diet 'May' Cause Rare Condition

Associated Press:

LONDON - The popular Atkins diet could be linked to a life-threatening complication which one woman who claimed to be following it developed, according to doctors who published a case report on it Friday in a British medical journal.
The Atkins diet calls for restricting carbohydrates to achieve weight loss, then gradually adding them back in. However, many people who say they're following the diet actually eat large amounts of protein and fat.

Doctors from New York University wrote in The Lancet journal of a 40-year-old woman who developed a dangerous condition called ketoacidosis, a dangerous buildup of acids called ketones in the blood which can lead to patients falling into a coma.

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

Let me get this straight. One woman gets a very rare condition and doctors say it "may" be linked to the Atkins diet. That "may" be a pretty big medical stretch. I think the doctors "may" have a financial interest in the South Beach Diet.