[Itzlzha]

So much of this diet stuff is a lot of crap. There is only one way to lose weight (without surgery, of course) -- you simply have to burn more calories than you consume, regardless of your intake of carbohydrates, fat, etc. There really is not much that a person can do to reduce their caloric intake substantially without adversely affecting their health, so the only real variable here is the "calorie burning" side of the equation. That's exercise, folks!

Having said that, it is possible that a low-carbohydrate diet helps you to lose weight by increasing your body's metabolism, which means you burn more calories sitting at your desk or sleeping at night than you might burn with a high-carbohydrate diet.

Do the research...the high-carb diet coincides with the Agro push for corn and other related products. 6-10 servings of grains a day?!?! C'mon, the studies on saccharin were a joke, just like the "food pyramid"!

Check your food at the store...look at the proliferation of corn syrup...even in items that DON'T NEED IT!

This also coincides with the increase in Type II diabetes, now being found in CHILDREN!

Think about it...we are the strongest, most prosperous Nation in the History of the world...and NOW the Government wants us to switch to an "agragian" Third-World diet?

Talk about keeping the masses fat, dumb and happy...

All part of the "Bread and Circuses" plan ...

[Alberta's Child]

Those are all valid points, but the start of the high-carb diet (around the early 1980s) also coincides with things like a massive increase in the numbers of "latch-key children" and "day-care children," the development of the video game industry, vicarious entertainment as an end unto itself, etc.

Kids aren't just fat slobs because of a high-carb diet -- they're fat slobs because they have a high-carb diet and don't do anything.