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Date Posted: 19:37:19 09/03/02 Tue
Author: Matt
Subject: A question for you all, please help

Hello, I have a question for you who have been on the Atkins diet for greater than 3 months:

I have been on the Akins diet twice in the last 3 years, the first time I was on it for 5 months and lost 40 lbs - that was 3 years ago. This March, I started the diet again and lost 25 lbs and went off it recently.

Anyway, here's the problem I'm having: Each time I have been on the Atkins diet - after about 3 months, I notice that my hair really thins out. I have curly hair, but after being on this diet for more than several months, my hair becomes very thin and straight and looses its curl. Once I go off the diet, after several months, my hair eventually thickens back up and goes back to it's normal tecture. This has happened both times I have been on the diet. It also happend to a friend of mine who was on the diet for a while.

Has anybody else had this problem??? When I've been on the diet, I've taken plenty of vitamins (I've even taken hair vitamins this last time to try and stop this but to no avail), and otherwise I eat a lot of food and eat plenty of fat and vegtables while on the diet. Does anybody know why this happens? Note, my hair doesn't fall out or recede, it just thins out, i.e. the hair itself becomes very fine.

Any info or feedback would be appreciated from you guys/gals. I love this diet, but I hate this side effect.

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How odd. -- Sherry, 21:57:25 09/03/02 Tue
Hair is virtually all protein. Have you been eating at least 90 grams of protein a day while on the diet? If not, the body may be getting it where it can. (NT) -- Daddy Bill, 10:09:46 09/04/02 Wed
hi Matt -- Zoe, 10:37:59 09/04/02 Wed