Doug Freese wrote in message . ..
Lyle McDonald wrote:


No, don't check out Atkins book, it's a piece of ****.
Get Protein Power by the Eades. It only has one or two errors in it.

Oh no, toss them both out and try the Cabbage Soup or was that
dingleberry torts? Save your money, add exercise and eat a balanced
diet less simple carbs.

well duh.... the whole debate is about what is a balanced diet.
according to the mainstream it is 60 plus percent carbs, according to
the low-carbers it is 40% or less. But I guess it doesn't matter as
long you deeply believe it is a truly balanced diet then the belief
will be enough to make you healthy and thin, eh?

And you say eat less simple carbs, eh? So complex carbs are acceptable
even if the GI-load or the calorie count is significantly higher than
some simple carbs?

On both recomendations, you've completely missed the mark.

Whether P. T. Barum said it or not but the
quote still has merit - there's a sucker born every minute. Ya
gotta love freedom of speech regardless of facts.

Since weight watchers is included in the groups it's the closest of
any to a sane way to eat.

P.T. was right. The mainstream has been pushing the
low-fat/low-calorie idea for 100 years and we have never been fatter.
Many recent studies on low-carb diets have got the mainstream
scratching their heads in utter confusion and mumbling about how the
data is not what they expected and how low-carb/high-fat/high-protein
diets are supposed to worsen blood lipids and not make them better and
how a higher calorie low-carb diet is supposed to cause more weight
gain or less weight loss than the studies show. Every single one of
them are trying their darndest to make sense of why their fundamental
science is being turned on its head. Suckers, all of them. They
believe in the *big nutrition lie*, that calories are all and that all
we need to do is eat less and exercise more without regard for high-GI
carbs. P.T. was right, there are millions like you out there who
utterly refuse to see the simple reality of it all.

TC