[Naspino]

Liberals hate Atkins because the only non-carb food is MEAT. To accept that MEAT is good for your would invalidate many of their lives. I think doctors go along with this because if they break rank they will be outed by their coleages and not invited to their doctor-games anymore.

[Mamzelle]

I believe you are right about ideology being behind the resistance to the obvious benefits of avoiding sugar. But it's more complex than animal rights--it's a matter of eating "more than your share." Lowcarb is NOT cheap. Flour is much cheaper than meat. Therefore, when you eat meat, you are consuming much more than you "deserve" to consume.

It was a doc that turned me on to lowcarb. Went for my physical, and my pudgy doc had buffed up. Atkins is a doc.

Docs go to the same schools and read the same journals as everyone elese, which is why they are sticking to the food pyramid for the time being. They are conservative and slow to change. And the people who run things like the American Heart Association are your typical tenured types, many of them doctors who'd do anything to escape the hard work of taking care of patients.

Lately there's been some noise about "Syndrome X" which is nothing more than a variation of Atkins. Carbohydrate Addicts is Atkins. But they don't want to give him credit because that would be admitting that they have been wrong for over thirty years.