[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Atkins would’ve probably saved his life."

Yes. And the weight loss would've been a bonus.

Atkins was a cardiologist, and well into his career noticed that excessive carb intake was a frequent theme in his patients. Too many folks have developed insulin intolerance, myself included. A nice fat sandwich or a Coke sets the pancreas into overdrive, and the result is arterial inflammation. The plaques are band-aids. Potentially fatal ones.

[kmiller1k]

I am currently re-reading the Schwarzbein Principle for the fourth time just to get fine tuning on my diet. Dr S advocates a high protein diet with plenty of real fats. With some good carbs thrown in. She is an endocrinologist who treated diabetics who weren’t getting any better following the Am Diabetic Asso diet of high carb, low fat diet.

Those that eat low fat, low protein diets are depriving their bodies of essential nutrients that mediate hormones—insulin being a very important one and one that I think we are finding is linked to CVD in an important way.