“These guys are ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS. Atkins debunked the idea that meat/eggs/cheese is bad for you, and the book Wheat Belly pretty much concluded the story, by explaining just what TODAY’S wheat does to the (non-adapted) human body.”
Unfortunately the “studies” that seem to prove the merits of the Atkins diet are no better than the anti-fat studies.
“Unfortunately the “studies” that seem to prove the merits of the Atkins diet are no better than the anti-fat studies.”
I’d agree that Atkins probably went a bit too far in the anti-carb craze, but he started the discussion, which was LONG OVERDUE.
At this point, I’d still say that the evidence is on the side of those that say meat is ok to eat - and that is a HUGE CHANGE from conventional think of the past several decades.
Actually those who ate closer to Atkins did better on some of the biggest studies out there—e.g., the Framingham and nurses studies—but the researchers were just so set in their presumptions that they ignored those findings and tried to extract something else from the findings.
The elephant in the diet room is genetics. It is quite probable that people with different genotypes respond differently to the same diet.