On 5/25/2012 1:51 PM, Walter Bushell wrote:
In articleKpidnVXwmsfEKSLSnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews. com,
James wrote:

The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)

Here is a video that might be of some interest to members
of this group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREuZ...eature=related

The interesting thing is that low carb is never worse than
any other diet on weight loss or any measure of risk.

More studies of this kind might sway the medical establishment
and the ADA.

Not likely.

Don't give up so easily. It is worth a try.

Aside from fiscal considerations the sheer shock of
knowing that you have disabled or even killed people with you dietary
and medical advice precludes most of the people involved from seeing
the truth. This goes triple for the bariatric surgery enthusiasts, who

At the end of the video he says that the ADA has begrudgingly sanctioned
LC diets if people can't comply with LF diets saying compliance trumps diet.

abhor low carb prior to the surgery and mandate it afterwards. Perhaps
bariatric surgery "works" by enforcing a low carb diet.

See Ignaz Semmelweis.

The way I understand it bariatric surgery works by causing drastic
changes in several hormone levels like ghrelin, PYY and GLP-1.