http://blog.healthyeats.com/blog/2009/02/18/low-carb-good-or-bad/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:49:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.healthyeats.com/blog/2009/02/18/low-carb-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 Dinos Tsapatsaris Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:41:02 +0000 http://blog.healthyeats.com/?p=2200#comment-1672 Frankly, I think the advice was ignorant, medical dogma not fact. The lack of energy comment was gratuitous nonsense. The research is ample: A high carb diet antithetical to health. The government's food pyramid is exactly upside down. The bad advice that spawned the geometric garbage is what is behind the diabetes epidemic, the heart disease epidemic and the constant loosing battle against cancer. The low carb lifestyle is the healthiest, and the data to prove it is all over the place. The medical community 50 years ago backed the wrong cause and made fat the culprit. They have invested billions and staked careers on the wrong cause. And that is why the "epidemics" will continue and lousy reports like the one above will be written. The fats are slowly being rehabilitated and the high carbs slowly cast aside (along with that rocket fuel for your pancreas, high fructose corn syrup.) But it will take a generation or more and millions of early deaths before the medical community gets its head out of it fats. The medical community is so wrong on diet and health that I have come to view that profession as simply disgusting. Frankly, I think the advice was ignorant, medical dogma not fact. The lack of energy comment was gratuitous nonsense. The research is ample: A high carb diet antithetical to health. The government’s food pyramid is exactly upside down. The bad advice that spawned the geometric garbage is what is behind the diabetes epidemic, the heart disease epidemic and the constant loosing battle against cancer. The low carb lifestyle is the healthiest, and the data to prove it is all over the place. The medical community 50 years ago backed the wrong cause and made fat the culprit. They have invested billions and staked careers on the wrong cause. And that is why the “epidemics” will continue and lousy reports like the one above will be written. The fats are slowly being rehabilitated and the high carbs slowly cast aside (along with that rocket fuel for your pancreas, high fructose corn syrup.) But it will take a generation or more and millions of early deaths before the medical community gets its head out of it fats. The medical community is so wrong on diet and health that I have come to view that profession as simply disgusting.

]]> http://blog.healthyeats.com/blog/2009/02/18/low-carb-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-590 Therese Sullivan Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:38:07 +0000 http://blog.healthyeats.com/?p=2200#comment-590 Have you actually read the South Beach diet? Low fat cooking, no fried foods, olive oil and plenty plenty of whole grains and fruits. My physician put me on this diet because I was borderline diabetic. Now I don't even test that way. I have lost 40 pounds and I have never eaten healthier in my life. Maybe you need to take a closer look at this diet because your description is of the atkins diet and not the south beach. Have you actually read the South Beach diet? Low fat cooking, no fried foods, olive oil and plenty plenty of whole grains and fruits. My physician put me on this diet because I was borderline diabetic. Now I don’t even test that way. I have lost 40 pounds and I have never eaten healthier in my life. Maybe you need to take a closer look at this diet because your description is of the atkins diet and not the south beach.

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