[Billy_bob_bob]

Dear medical professionals, dieticians, and other Cassandras of the "food world".

I, an American citizen, do hereby declare that I no longer care what you have to say about anything, and I will not listen to anything you have to say about anything except to denigrate it.

You are all fools and liars. You cannot keep your stories straight for ten minutes at a time. The actual research you all do could fit on the head of a flea's push-pin. The only actual skill you all have is jumping on the latest fad bandwagon and finding good marketing phrases to promote the latest fad bandwagon.

I'm going to have a nice steak for dinner tonight, with a baked potato, and some corn and some biscuits. I don't care if it is "good" for me or not, in fact I'm inclined to believe that the "worse" it is supposed to be, the "better" it probably really is.

So, to all of you "experts" in "nutrition", do us all a favor and go and jump off of the nearest bridge. You would be doing more for humanity than anything else you could achieve.

Signed,
A former believer in diets.

[saluki_in_ohio]

I have been on the Atkins diet before, and it works. I have had several nutritionists tell me how deadly this diet is.

What strikes me is that their response to this diet is much like a liberal frothing at the mouth over something that offends their sensibilities. You then present them with evidence that the diet presents no ill effect, and they aren't even objective enough to consider it; they just get more shrill in their objections.