Originally Posted by janbyn

I disagree with the masses. I think that your sore throats are caused by not eating enough carbs. I decided to eat five or less carbs to loose more weight and I got a cold with a sore thoat as well. I think that if you are not eating 20 carbs or as close as you can get to the 20 carbs without going over you will continue to get sick. I guess Dr. Akins had a reason for suggesting that we stick to 20 carbs.

We also need to eat clean well-washed veggies in order to stay health, if you are not doing that then it will make it difficult to fight off learking viruses (colds and flu). Secondly, the older we are the more careful we need to be!