1.   The front runner has long seemed to be head injury, in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state.

2.   The Atkins plan strives to put dieters into an abnormal metabolic state called ketosis, which occurs when the body burns fats for fuel in the absence of carbohydrates.

3.   This, he said, is the metabolic state in which the body works at peak efficiency.

4.   Limiting the intake of carbohydrates to such a dramatically low level starves the body of needed nutrients and causes an artificial metabolic state.

5.   Limiting the intake of carbohydrates to such a dramatically low level starves the body of needed nutrients and it causes an artificial metabolic state.