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To: najida
And it will take years for it all to come out in the wash...

The first "official studies" were produced this year, 30+ years after the diet's phenomenal introduction. Maybe they'll do a follow up study in another 30+ years. Personally, I won't be waiting around to find out, eating a low fat diet and developing diabetes and heart disease. Thanks, but no thanks.

The correlation between the increase in per capita consumption of carbohydrates (from 30 to 40 percent over a ten year period) and the increase in cases of diabetes and heart disease per capita is enough to convince me that low fat dieting is an unprecedented medical-field-generated disaster.

Besides strong opinions, I have seen no hard data indicating any problems with low-carb diets.

97 posted on 07/03/2003 11:32:28 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: Aquinasfan
The problem I have seen (and continue to see) is that folks equate low fat with high sugar (which I think we all agree on)....

How many fruits and veges do they eat a day?
How much fiber are they getting in their diets?
How many mg of calcium?
How much water?
How much activity? How much mono and omega-3 fat?

99% of the diabetics and cardiac patients I deal with have the zero to low end of the habits listed above.

It is the total package of what you do...
Not one magic bullet.

107 posted on 07/03/2003 11:42:25 AM PDT by najida (What handbasket? And where did you say we were going?)
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