Maybe not so good. Being in an acidotic or an alkalotic state isn't normal.
America's high-fat, high-protein diet guru, Dr Robert Atkins, is struggling to recover from a cardiac arrest - fuelling speculation that he is a victim of his own advice.
The heart attack was caused by a virus, not the diet, insisted the 71-year-old Dr Atkins after emerging from nearly a week in hospital.
'I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet,' he said on a television show following a heart attack on April 18.
But the American Heart Association, which has the nation's leading cardiologists on its membership rolls, has long warned that heart attacks might follow adherence to the Atkins Diet, reported The Telegraph on Sunday.
Dr Atkins' formula - eat meat and any other form of pure protein while avoiding carbohydrates contained in bread, potatoes and sugar - evolved in the early 1970s.
According to him, the fastest way to lose weight is to starve the body of carbohydrates until the body burns fat instead in a process called 'ketosis'.