[an amused spectator]

I haven't read the book and I'm not advocating the Atkins diet.

I'm pointing out that there are at least two major camps in the War on Fat, and one completely contradicts the assumptions of the other. I conclude that the War on Fat is a fraud launched to extract money for "the good of the chilrun".

I was a very good cook in another life, and I remember when these nutritional phonies told us all to eschew butter in favor of margarine.

That was the last straw for me. I completely ignored their "advice" on butter (more like a diktat) and happily continued using butter. Lo and behold, one day we were all told that margarine and its partially hydrogenated goo might not be such a good thing after all.

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!

[SamAdams76]

I completely agree that butter is far better than margarine. I never use margarine and I consider it just one step above toxic waste! I try to use olive oil instead of butter whenever I can though as it is high in the good kinds of fat. Since I started using olive oil daily, my cholesterol is down to 185. Maybe there are other factors that resulted in my lower cholesterol, but I give olive oil the credit.