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Date Posted: 08:46:58 07/20/02 Sat
Author: Sherry
Subject: 20 20 last night

Those of us who have been low carbing for awhile know all the things that they said, but it was great seeing it on a show like that. They mentioned Atkins and how he has been saying this for like 20 years and that only recently have the 'experts' been agreeing with him.

They mentioned that the "low fat" idea actually didn't get started with doctors or dieticians at all but with two LAWYERS trying to draft guidelines for the American public.

That no studies have ever been done to prove that the low fat idea works, but that once it got ingrained into the public consciousness that there was "no stopping it".

Seemed to me that they totally ignored the doctor's share of responsibility in all this.

My father in law has all the classic symptoms of too many carbohydrates. He has high blood pressure, high cholesterol, adult onset diabetes, and angina. STILL they are telling him "low fat". They are also telling him low carbohydrate (to some extent), but as I see it they are essentially taking away all his food choices. He says "if it tastes good I can't eat it". WHO is going to stick to a diet like that?

If he were the sort of person who would read anything I would share Protein Power with him, but he won't read it anyway.

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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/2020/2020_diets020719.html here is the link for anyone who wants to read a transcript of the program. (NT) -- s, 10:19:26 07/20/02 Sat