Lets go with some more of my unsubstantiated claims, this one is from the MCDougal wellness center about the Zone and other low carb diets....
"Their popularity has finally caused a long over due backlash from the scientific community. The American College of Sports Medicine, The American Dietetic Association, the Women's Sports Foundation, and the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research have made their concerns known in a recently published brochure titled "Questioning 40/30/30."
I have more from JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine and I have about 50 Muscle-and-fitness, four sports medicines books, various nutrional tomes, and interviews frokm coaches of professional athletes.
This one is to Dana, I dont mind if you all believe in this stuff but I do not like to be insulted when as I said, almost the ENTIRE scientific community is on my side.
Are these the same doctors who give Count Chocula the heart healthy symbol? Are these the same doctors who have been giving the dietary advice that led Americans to be obese in record numbers? The same ones who presided over the recent advent of Adult onset diabetes in adolescents? The same doctors who say oils like canola and cottonseed are good for you? The same doctors who advocate hydrogenated man made fats like margarine and Crisco which our body is totally unequiped to utilize as healthy? The same ones who say butter, lard, beef fat, and other natural oils are bad for you? The same doctors and food industry experts who have created a poplulation of people with asthma and other auto-immune disorders at record levels? The same doctors that think everone suffers from a low level of Prosac and Zoloft and that for some reason a huge portion of our society is in need of a chemical crutch? The same doctors who don't realize that our ancestors went into ketosis for MONTHS on end during winters and say it is harmful instead of beneficial?
Well they have been strangely quiet lately since the vast majority of recent research is not exactly supporting their thesis lately.
I fully support your decision to cram your body year round with carbs in amounts it was never meant to handle, eat manufactured fats it has no clue of how to use in its structures and hormones, and avoid necessary oils and fats it needs to properly build membranes and produce hormones. I support your decision to work towards adult onset (unless you exercise constantly). I support your decision to ignore our natural state and diet and think that every caveman had a 50 pound sack of bleached flour and 50 pounds of sugar and cases of sugar water (coke) and never ever ever spent months in ketosis.
Seriously now, I know you don't go to these extremes but this is the basic advice that these experts have been giving us.
Our society was a lot less obese before these clown doctors.