[aruanan]

They just can't stand to give him credit.

Go HERE to read about the egregious reporting done by Gary Taubes about Atkins.

The very person with whom Taubes chose to end his article, Stanford’s John Farquhar, was as livid as Reaven. Taubes said that Farquhar had sent Taubes "an e-mail message asking the not-entirely-rhetorical question, ‘Can we get the low-fat proponents to apologize?’" On this powerful note, the article ended.

But it’s Taubes whom Farquhar wants to apologize. "I was greatly offended by how Gary Taubes tricked us all into coming across as supporters of the Atkins diet," he wrote in an e-mail he broadcast to reporters and to colleagues who were stunned that Farquhar might actually hold the beliefs Taubes attributed to him. "We are against the Atkins Diet," he wrote, speaking for himself and Reaven. "I told him [Taubes] there is the minor degree of merit" to the idea that "people are getting fatter because too much emphasis is being placed on just cutting fats," Farquhar told me. But "once I gave him that opening -- bingo -- he was off and running, even though I said about six times that this is not the cause of the obesity epidemic."

As a biological scientist with a major portion of my graduate training in human nutrition/nutritional biology, I have to agree with Farquhar and the author of this article.

[bobwoodard]

and here's Taube's response to Fumento's critique. Interesting reading on both sides.

[Mamzelle]

Nature's Way has a new locarb bread available at WalMart--when I went back to purchase more, that part of the bin was bare. Word is getting around, even to us WalMarts. I am getting to know quite a few people who, after a lifetime of struggling with lofat diets, now find it easy to control their weight, hunger-less, with locarb...Of course, this means better health through not carrying around those pounds! Now we're starting the Omega-3 experiment.