[p. henry]

Agreed. I returned from a four week cruise during which I gained twenty pounds. I went on a diet which severely restricts sugars, simple carbs, and booze and lost those twenty pounds in less than a month. Sugar is poison.

[RoosterRedux]

I have a good friend who takes blood pressure medicine, has to limit her salt, and can't understand why her weight is too high (she eats a few too many carbs in bread, cereal, and pasta).

I suggest the keto diet as something she should perhaps try...but she refuses.

I explain that carbs are sugar in the blood stream and sugar is the killer, but...you know how stubborn people can be.;-)