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Old 8th Apr 2007, 13:10
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People on the Atkins diet can smell very badly of Ketones which could be confused with the smell of alcohol.
Received medical wisdom -- or at least it was when I went to med school -- is that it takes three days of complete carbohydrate starvation to start burning ketone bodies and therefore have your breath smell ketotic.

That is some diet! Good idea to fly when on that kind of extreme regime?

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