[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I’m old enough to remember when he was a quack. Now his nutritional ideas are conventional wisdom. But he rarely gets credit.

[kevkrom]

I think there was that “fad” point in the early 2000’s, too, where people who needed to lose maybe 20 pounds were doing “low-carb”. It’s really not a good plan for that - it’s better for those who are significantly overweight and need to retrain themselves how to eat healthy food.

For some reason, it also seems to work better for men than women, which makes sense since the sexes have different biologies, but I’ve yet to see any good research into what specific biological differences come into play on that score.

[PA Engineer]

I’m old enough to remember when he was a quack. Now his nutritional ideas are conventional wisdom. But he rarely gets credit.

Same here and have watched the slow evolution of the ADA towards Adkins. Those that claim Adkins is a high protein low carb diet are clueless and spouting misinformation.

I am amazed his findings came from experience in a clinical practice. In other words he had to have results.

The role of triglycerides, HDL levels and insulin resistance have been recklessly ignored by our dietary gurus.