"Tim Tyler" wrote in message news:HuMvG3.7Jq@bath

When a diet is described as "high in fat", it usually means the
*percentage* of fat in the diet is high.

It's the same with high protein diets.

Atkins is a low carb diet - so it is high in fats and proteins -
at least as far as the percentages go.

Problem is, Tim, that Atkins is then criticised for being a 'dangerously'
high-fat or 'worryingly' high-protein diet -- even though the *absolute
amounts of these food-types consumed* may actually be *lower* for an
appetite-suppressed Atkins dieter than for the sugar-crazed carb-junkie
sitting next to them.

This isn't *fair*, and it sure as hell ain't *honest*. The
carbohydrate-whores are throwing the terms 'high fat' and 'high protein'
around to *scare people*: it's as simple - and as disgraceful - as that.
What you are saying, in fact, is tantamount to the claim that one can switch
to a 'low fat' diet by just eating a helluva lot more *glucose*: 'it's lower
in fats and proteins - at least as far as the percentages go...'.
..
You're a *bright guy*, Tim -- so *why* do you keep selling out to the Dark
Side on this matter? What issues do you have with this? Seriously. There
*has to be a reason* why you stop making sense whenever this stuff crops
up...

M.