[Mamzelle]

It was my doc who started me on locarb. He had gone from a balding, rolypoly obgyn to a lean, buff, balding obgyn. Balding looks better on lean and buff.

Docs have taken their lead from dieticians, btw--a mistake on their parts.

[cyborg]

And dieticians get their cue from the USDA starch and carb mafia with their food pyramids. Atkins has been promoting this diet for years.

Edward Lear from the 1800s...
There was an old man of Tobago,
Who lived on rice, gruel and sago
Till, much to his bliss,
His physician said this -
To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go