Fri, May-07-04, 18:21
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Posts: 2,816
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Plan: Atkins/Protein Power
Stats: 256/179/160
BF:38.9/27.2/24.3
Progress: 80%
Location: Triangle NC
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Yet, all those years ago, it was well understood that potatoes and bread made you fat. I still have an old Weight Watcher book, back when they used equivalents, which restricted your carbs to 2 equivalents per day. That meant no more than 2 slices of bread or starchy vegetables per day.
Had the low-carb "craze" started then, people would have embraced it as making sense. It's only years of conditioning that made low-carb counterintuitive
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Back in 1968 I joined a teen version of WW and that's exactly what we were told. If we did eat carbs it was high fiber. I remember eating the baked potato skins while everyone else ate the potatoes!
In 1974 we were able to get the hospital where I went to school (diploma grad RN) to change their cafeteria food because it was all pasta and potatoes. Meals cooked with pasta and potatoes. Cold pasta and potato salads....etc etc etc....we joked that the head cook had stock in pasta and potatoes! LOL
When did the LF craze start anyway? |