Skip to comments.
What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?
FrontPage Magazine.com ^
| July 8, 2002
| Gary Taubes
Posted on 07/16/2002 2:03:31 PM PDT by Varmint Al
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-47 next last
When so many people are wrong for so long, it becomes a religion. My wife has been trying to feed me the low fat diet for years, but I have resisted. I guess I wasn't fooled.
It makes me wonder about all of the other "religions" out there... Tree huggers preventing clear cutting and watching the trees burn. Eco freaks preventing drilling for our own oil and watching the countries that pollute and use the money to attack us. Gun grabbers taking our Second Amendment rights and watching crime increasing. If a lot of people believe something for a long time, it doesn't make it right.
To: Varmint Al
The low-carb approach works. Every single time it's tried.
The problem is, it takes time to adjust one's eating patterns to ignore the carb cravings and, instead, stuff your face with meat and cheese.
The medical community will eventually realize that sugar is a bigger killer than tobacco.
The "caveman diet" will help you lose weight quickly and feel much better in the process.
2
posted on
07/16/2002 2:13:22 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: sinkspur
The medical community will eventually realize that sugar is a bigger killer than tobacco.AH HA!
I KNEW it wasn't the tobacco. ;^)
To: Just another Joe
Actually we eat more corn syrup than sugar as a sweetener source...Sugar is too expensive nowadays for most food processors.Corn syrup doesn't seem as satisfying as sugar therefore we want to eat more. It is probably a reason why we have more allergies due to increased intake of corn products.
4
posted on
07/16/2002 3:12:48 PM PDT
by
kaktuskid
To: kaktuskid
I had a friend on the Atkins diet. She lost a lot of weight but it trashed her blood chemistry. Her total cholesterol was in above 900 and her tri-gly were over 1000. The doctor thought it was a flawed result and she had a second test at another blood lab. It came back with nearly the same results. When she switched to a diet of moderation that included some carbs, lean meats, fruits and veggies her numbers dropped in half. It might be a freak occurance but I'll never take that chance.
5
posted on
07/16/2002 3:21:11 PM PDT
by
Dutch Boy
To: sinkspur
Absolutely right. As a diabetic convert to low carb, in my new trimmed down state, (30 pounds lighter), I have challenged the American Diabetic Assn on their recommendations which are carb based. The silence is deafening.
The is not one, NOT EVEN ONE successful study in all these years, despite the millions of dollars spent in this country and abroad trying to link a high fat high protein diet, (read Atkins here), to coronary heart disease. The Framingham Heart Study, the Techumseh Study, the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, The WHO Coronary Prevention Study.........they all came back with big fat zeros. (Go Here to Read it For Yourself)
I am a convert, and I will use the diet to be a drug free diabetic for as long as I can.
To: conspiratoristo
I did Atkins last year to drop 15 pounds and, guess what? My cholesterol (borderline) dropped 15 points as well!
I follow a modified Atkins now, which is to NEVER eat protein and carbohydrates at the same meal. I love popcorn, but I never eat it within three hours of a meal. I've managed to keep the weight off.
The hardest thing to do, however, is to break that carb addiction, which is exactly what it is.
7
posted on
07/16/2002 3:40:20 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: Dutch Boy
Wish I had seen your post before posting.
My triglicerides dropped from 156 to 56, my total cholesterol went down, and my ratio of bad to good cholesterol, as well as total to good chol. improved.
It might not work for everyone, but I know people that have really benefitted from it.
To: mtngrl@vrwc
Big fat bump!
To: sinkspur
The problem is, it takes time to adjust one's eating patterns to ignore the carb cravings and, instead, stuff your face with meat and cheese. Fat RINOs eating blubber to stay healthy. Who would have ever thought that even one of them had that much commonsense.
10
posted on
07/16/2002 4:06:45 PM PDT
by
eskimo
To: Varmint Al
I don't see any evidence at all here that Atkins has any "proof" at all on his side except the fact that people like to believe it's okay to eat fat and meat, and like to buy a book that tells them it's okay to do that.
A billion Hindu adherents in India say it's wrong to eat beef. A billion Muslim adherents world wide say it's wrong to eat pork.
When does majority vote constitute scientific proof of anything?
To: Varmint Al
I lost ten pounds in two weeks on the Atkins diet but my system got so screwed up it took several months to get over it, and I put all the weight back on. Atkins can kiss my butt.
To: patriciaruth
When does majority vote constitute scientific proof of anything? There's enough anecdotal evidence to stir doubt among the medical community that eating "low fat" is actually having the opposite effect.
I know enough people who have dropped carbs and eat "the caveman diet" that it convinced me that sugar is dangerous and fat is not.
Why do you think farmers feed grain and potatoes to animals?
(Hint: it ain't to make 'em skinny)
13
posted on
07/16/2002 4:21:03 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: Saundra Duffy
Atkins can kiss my butt. Oooo. Careful Saundra, you are really hanging out in the breeze asking for riotous comments with this one.
You want to join the Bod a Thon? Check with Homeschool Mama on rintense's nightly Dose (A Day in the Life of President Bush thread). We've decided to head the President's call to get healthier.
To: sinkspur
Well, I keep fat low and sugar even lower. Both are bad, in my anecdotal view.
To: Saundra Duffy
Everybody's different. What exactly do you mean by "screwed up"?
16
posted on
07/16/2002 4:22:52 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: Dutch Boy
I'll bet your friend had something else going on to cause those high lipid numbers. Dr. Atkins advises anyone starting his diet to have a full lipid panel done at the outset of the diet, then again in 60 days and then again in 60 days. I don't know anyone (and I know about 10 people on Atkins or a similar diet plan) who followed a low carb regimen who didn't see a marked and sustained improvement in those numbers. I brought my triglycerides from over 1600 to about 100 on the diet. How long was your friend on the diet?
17
posted on
07/16/2002 4:23:08 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
To: sinkspur
Good grief! I got so constipated I thought I would die! So there. Now you've made me embarrass myself in front of the whole freepin' world!
To: conspiratoristo
I am a convert, and I will use the diet to be a drug free diabetic for as long as I can. Amen to that! My blood sugar was out of control. I couldn't keep it under 200 and I was spiking to around 400. My mother spent weeks in a diabetic coma and I was afraid I was heading for the same thing. I went on the Atkins diet and started a daily workout and lost over 110 lbs. The Atkins diet cured my diabetes symptoms...no medication, my BP is normal, no more meds...I had sleep apnea and used a Cpap debive to sleep, but no more and I was on medication for acid reflux...no more. I think Dr. Atkins helped to save my life.
19
posted on
07/16/2002 4:27:24 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
To: Saundra Duffy
Constipation is a normal side-effect of an Atkins-type diet.
So, eat some apricots or prunes or plums. I never gave up fruit; so I didn't reach ketosis. That means I lost weight slower.
I also didn't give up wine either. But eliminating starchy carbs like bread and potatoes and corn helped me lose 15 pounds in three months.
20
posted on
07/16/2002 4:27:59 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-47 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson