Ignoramus13725 wrote:
|| In article , Roger Zoul wrote:
||| By Kelly James-Enger
||| Special to MSN
|||
||| High-protein diets promise that if you cut back on carbohydrates,
||| you'll shed pounds. As a result, millions of Americans are
||| embracing popular high-protein plans like the Atkins and South
||| Beach diets that limit carbs. But in their fervor to whittle their
||| waistlines, dieters may not be considering the impact their new
||| eating styles could have on their digestive systems as well.
|||
|||
||| http://gerd.msn.com/GERDUp2004-14LowCarb.asp
||
|| Roger, obviously, this is not a dig at you, but that article is as
|| stupid as they get. They imply that eating 25g of fiber per day is
|| incompatible with LC. They refer to an actual study that said that
|| GERD declined on LC, and then an anecdote of some assistant professor
|| saying that "some people complain of heartburn on LC".
||
|| My personal anecdote is that I had heartburn 3 days per week.
||
|| As soon as I went on my reduced carb diet in June 2003, my heartburn
|| disappeared for good and I have not yet had ONE incident of
|| heartburn.
||
|| I can literally pig out on food now (vegetables, including tomatoes)
|| and would have no heartburn. By pigging out I mean eating, like, 3
|| lbs
|| of tomatoes at once. Throw a bunch of fatty meat to this, still, no
|| heartburn.
||
|| I recently had an enormous breakfast consisting of fatty bacon, a
|| huge quantity of eggs etc (Aug 15). A buffet type continental
|| breakfast. No heartburn.

I don't get heartburn or acid reflux anymore either, while I'm on LC. The
funny thing, though, is if I introduce lots of carbs back in, then the
heartburn will return.

AGain, who knows why these people think that LCers don't eat fiber -
apparently they still view LC as a "meat" diet. You noticed how the return
to it as a high-protein diet, that tells you a lot right there.