Thread: what is your response to this?

http://www.wegmans.com/health/healthTopics/030604a.asp

Cre8tive,
Just so you will know for the future...
If you post from an article you have read somewhere, I believe you need to provide a link. Andrea does not allow plagerism or infringement of copyrights on this site.

Could you provide us with the link, please, so we might read the total article?
Thanks bunches!

Shelley

Just a suggestion;

When you do a search with the word craze (as in crazy) you are going to come up with mostly negative articles about this woe. Try searching for low carb heallthy instead. Seems almost like you are looking for reasons to go off low carb.

There is a vast difference between a debate and "poking the bear", as it were.

When you post links to articles which are "anti-low carb" on a low carb site, and then give no reasoning as to why you disagree with them, you are simply putting out negative information and expecting a reaction.

Well, here's your reaction.

There is nothing wrong with presenting opposing viewpoints, stating your side, proffering valid reasons and citing valid sources, and then blending your thoughts into this SUPPORT and ENCOURAGEMENT community for low carb advocates.

Keep that in mind. Please stop posting negative, anti-low carb articles and links without giving it a positive spin. There are many Newbies (and veterans!) who waver, and reading just negative publicity about low carb could be detrimental to those who are serious about weight loss and health through following a low carb way of life.

Cre8tive -
you can speak your mind and present the opinions out there. I think some of the vets are just a little sensitive having put up with the negativity for so long.

meanwhile, Andrea herself has opened up a news / topic and has said she welcomes the discussion articles - both positive and negative - you may want to post your discussion here instead of in the Newbies forum.

http://www.lowcarbeating.com/bb/show...8813#post98813

The Diet and Health News Forum is the best place to post information from other sources in hopes of having a discussion. I think we try to leave the Newbies and other forums for general questions, help, and good natured chatting.

Well said, Mary Kay. That's what I was trying to say.

oh, yeah, - forgot -
whining is allowed in any forum.

My response to the article, HOOEY!!!! I don't trust the ADA as far as I can throw them. They don't get it. If what they recommend as a diabetic diet is supposed to be so good, why does diabetes continue to rise at alarming rates and why aren't diabetics getting any better? My DH and I had a discussion on this very subject just the other day. Call me paranoid, but I truly think the major drug companies have a tremendous impact on what is recommended. I might even believe it's somewhat conspiratorial. DH doesn't think they set out to keep people addicted to drugs and on medications they COULD get themselves off of. I disagree. They are self-perpetuating. If diabetics got better, they wouldn't need their millions of dollars worth of glucophage.

Sure, the 20 gram levels of induction-type stages of LC programs is rough at first. But we don't sustain that level indefinitely. I felt like crap while on that level. But I upped my carbs with WHOLE foods quite rapidly and feel like a million bucks now. I have completely cut out JUNK foods, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated fats, etc. As far as that goes, I eat very clean.

There are many people who participate on this board who WERE diabetics or who have been able to decrease or eliminate their Diabetese meds altogether. Call me crazy, but I think they have this WOL to thank for that. And to say that one should consume 40-60 carbs per meal.................well that's just crazy talk. If I did that, I'd be right back to where I was pre-LC.

No matter how many negative articles I read about LC, I will NEVER let that sway me away from it, EVER. Pure and simple.............this is my lifestyle now, for the rest of my life. And I LOVE it!!!!!!