The War on Fat is a fraud perpetrated soley to tax consumers on the food they eat, ala the tobacco war theft.
Is this guy that ignorant of the Atkins diet. Atkins does not reduce the number of calories, he reduces the amount of carbohydrates. So it is does have to do with where they come from.
Another point in favor of the Atkins people is the sick way the no-fat Nazis view their little dogmas as a quasi-religion. Yechhhhh!
Their self-serving agendas are more important than their touted concern for people's health.
Now two new studies show that those who follow the diet can lose significant amounts of weight, but other research is raising concerns about the safety of the program, linking it to an increased risk of kidney stones and bone loss.
Two new studies and several deaths prove that drinking too much water can be fatal. More people have died as a direct result from drinking water than have died from using the Atkins diet.
Some of the nation's leading obesity researchers and nutritionists are outraged by the diet, arguing that it runs contrary to the advice of most major health
Outraged that they're being exposed as incompetents. Outraged that a highly successful diet is gaining market share as it debunks the government subsidized/protected sugar and grain growers.
How did those people get labeled as "leading researchers"? They were designated not by the accuracy of their research, rather, they gained the label by towing government propaganda supporting sugar and grain growers .
The findings are reported in the August American Journal of Kidney Diseases. "We think the diet's combination of low carbohydrates and high animal protein results in sufficient acid to increase the risk for certain kinds of kidney stones," she says.
Drinking water increases the risk of dying from drinking too much water. Obviously the benefits of drinking water outweigh the risks.
"Do people really want to give up bananas and their favorite fruits?" Ayoob asks.
Do recreational drug users really want to give up their favorite drug -- alcohol and caffeine being the most abused drugs, second only to sugar abuse? Many people have gladly quit consuming those toxic substances.
Let me be the first here to make a full-fledged attack on the above pinheads that call themselves nutritional scientists, who operate in the fine tradition of the morons that nearly executed Galileo.
Morons did in Socrates and Jesus -- Galileo was more fortunate.
Memo to morons: Just because you don't know WHY the Atkins diet works don't mean it don't. So why don't you "scientists" try the Scientific method for once - and DO find out why.
The reason why is self-serving agendas subsidized by government grants and farm aid. That's what makes them losers -- eschewing their rational scientific minds.
A natural diet consisting of mostly meats (with their attached fats) and vegetables is the way humans have eaten forever. If breads and sugars were natural foods, the metabolism would have no problem handling them. But as it is, a shot of sugar/flour spikes insulin (this includes today's luscious, hyper-fructose fruits), which in turn drives down blood sugar and causes lethargy and confusion quickly.
chilepepper: the whole "low-fat" house of cards is starting to teeter and there is a LOT of money at stake to keep the status-quo
Should the lawsuits against fast-food restaurants ever get to court the nutritional facts will be in the lime-light. Mercat can you weigh-in (no pun intended) on this issue?
SamAdams76: Then how is it that my grandmother managed to live to 90 (and is still going) despite making biscuits and gravy every morning for 70 years now?
LindaSOG: There are exceptions to everything! My great-grandpa Louie smoked 40 cigarettes a day and was healthy as a horse when he died in a car accident at the age of 96.
Your response is so obvious yet SamAdams76 feigns ignorance. It appears that he prides himself on playing dumb.
Assuming the "studies" are even anywhere near accurate (a gigantic if), the solutions are simple: lithotripsy and Tums.
And not a word of this article questions the naysayers, as usual: How do THEY explain the fact that even though more low-fat foods are available today than ever, and more people partake of such options more than ever, we as a nation keep on getting fatter? These oh-so-brilliant researchers and nutritionists have brainwashed us all into following diets that cause us to gain weight, often in massive quantities. Either give us a direct, 100% proven answer to that - no theories - or GET THE F OUT!