[knuthom]

Carbs are BAD for you

I am on a low carb diet and it is the ONLY thing that has worked for me. But I don't think carbs are bad for everyone. My husband and son can eat all they want with no problems. My other two sons and daughter seem to have my metabolism and gain weight with carbs.

[BuckeyeForever]

Even Atkins concedes there is a small portion of the population that doesn't respond to his diet with weight loss. From what I've seen in the many books on the subject (and I've been reading them for two or three decades going back to "Atkins I"), there may be as much as 25 percent of the population that doesn't benefit from the low-carb diet.
One of the fascinating theories out there now (and one roundly criticized by mainstream medicine) is the notion that blood type may be correlated with optimum diet. You might want to read any of Peter d'Adamo's interesting books (Live Right 4 Your Type, and other similar titles) or visit his website to explore that. He maintains that Type O's (the largest blood type group) do best on low-carb diets, but Type A's (only about 20-25 percent of the population, curiously) do best on vegetarian diets, which obviously are high-carb. His explanation for that has to do with lectins, substances in certain foods to which the body reacts immunologically. It's very interesting stuff, but still somewhat speculative. The fact that the medical orthodoxy poo-poos it is probably a good indication he is on to something.