CNN - LowCarb Backlash

Another frustrating article...

Wolfman
Restarted Atkins 1-02-04
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well I just couldn't be bothered reading it.

Any one else like me fed up to the back teath with naysayers?

We know whats good for us

BigLez Soon to be Littlelez

If you have never made a mistake then you've done nothing

Don't you just love the raw power that is public opinion and how easily swayed it is? One blatantly misrepresented report about Dr. Atkins by a group of vegetarian animal rights activists combined with the incorrect belief that low carb diets are all about eating unlimited amounts of bacon and steak and nothing else makes people immediately assume that low-carb is a bad way to eat.

Where do people get this stuff? Nobody says eating 20 lbs of spare ribs and washing it all down with a glass of heavy cream is the way to eat. Instead of low-carbohydrate diet or high-protein diet, they should call it the nutrient-rich diet. What the lc diets are really advocating is the removal of empty calories from one's diet and replacing them with foods rich in vitamins and minerals and fiber and heart-healthy fats and muscle-building proteins that are what keep bodies and minds healthy.

I am willing to bet that a low carber gets a higher percentage of his/her US RDA of vitamins and minerals from food than a person eating the typical American diet.

However, I also think that vegetarianism, when focused on eating vegetables (because hey, candy corn are vegetarian AND low-fat) is a very healthy lifestyle. But I don't think it's for everyone. And nobody who eats low carb says it's for everyone. It is for some people, just as veganism is for some people, just as not eating fish is for some people, but everyone doesn't have to eat the same way.

What also bugs me is that all these organizations and corporations are trying to tell a group of people who are losing weight and increasing their health to eat differently, while ignoring that typical American diet, while ignoring that school lunches are chock full of sugar and transfats, while ignoring the increase in type II diabetes in teenagers. Of all the things to worry about, they worry about people who eat their fat and lose it, too.

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Right On Libby!

I love your response...awesome!

Ron

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" Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it." --Horace Mann "Men don't determine their future. Men determine their habits and their habits determine their future!" -- Mike Murdock

It strikes me as odd that people would call this an unhealthy diet because one teenager might have died from it. Was the teenager following the diet correctly?

How many teenagers are killed every day by driving vehicles? Is anyone suggesting they stop driving completely, or do they try to make sure it's done right so they can be safe?

(sighs deeply)
I previously had a stock answer to anyone who brought up people dying doing Atkins. . . "They weren't doing Atkins."
But I'm tired of defending myself against the whitebreadders. My answer now is "You're right, perhaps soon I'll realize I've died and lay down properly." Meanwhile I'm running circles around these kids who always seem to be tired.
Things that make you go hmmmm. . .

Stacie
222/156/150

We have been discussing this in the other ATKINS forum but...

I have always wanted to ask when they say someone died on Atkins.."Were they wearing pants?" "Yes?" "Then pants must have killed them!"

Its the same thing when they claim that there is a high level of heart attacks or heart issues with Atkins followers... My take on that is that a lot of people who have come to follow Atkins were probably overweight to begin with (hence the need to follow Atkins) and may have had heart issues too. So they decided to try Atkins to get those issues under control...but since the damage was done before hand... they had a heart attack (but not from following Atkins) It would have happened even if they had decided to follow WeightWatchers....

Wolfman
Restarted Atkins 1-02-04
202/188/175

I'm sick of missinformation about Atkins, they should first read the book, be informed and then speak. They don't even know what they are saying, they think this WOE is only about bacon and eggs.
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