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They’re simply trying to cater to a person like me that is willing to part with my money for good tasting low carb, no MSG, no hydrogenated oil high protein food. It is too hard to find currently.

And as far as:

"And though no studies have been done on the long-term health effects of high-protein, low-carb diets like Atkins, saturated fats are known to increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. As is the case with so many diet fads, however, the evidence is contradictory."

That isn't true. The studies that connected saturated fats to heart disease included trans fatty acids that are very bad for you (hydrogenated vegetable oils in many, many things now). Remove those from the studies of saturated fats and you get an entirely different result.

Also every study of the Atkins diet health wise has come out the opposite of what the researches were expecting to prove. That the high animal fat and high protein diet actually improves health and lowers bad cholesterol.

The eggheads that created the food pyramid with refined wheat at its base were wrong. As people have increased there consumption of carbs mostly in the form of refined wheat and sugar water over the years we have gotten fatter.

The only creditable health statistic I'm interested in is the one my wife mentioned to me last year. . ."you know honey, she said, you don't hardly ever see an 80 year old obese person."

Bingo! I dropped 50 pounds in 2003 and will drop another 50 this year. I don't exercise except for golf.

People are on low-carb BECAUSE IT WORKS!!!!

The eggheads that created the food pyramid with refined wheat at its base were wrong. As people have increased their consumption of carbs mostly in the form of refined wheat and sugar water over the years we have gotten fatter.

That's right! Along with the government subsidies for corn, resulting in corn syrup being used as the primary sweetener in everything. Before the subsidies, sweetening food made it more expensive, and market costs controlled consumption. Now, we not only sweeten cheap, we do it with the highest carb solution - corn syrup - instead of sugar cane sugars.

The food pyramid is a compromise political device that meets the ends of the PETA/vegan/Gaia worshippers, along with the wheat lobby. It does not reflect what we need to eat to be healthy, rather what they want us to eat. 20 years experimenting with our nutrition is long enough. The food pyramid needs to be abolished.