JeffE just posted a link to a Washington Post rebuttal to Gary Taubes' writing on low carb diets. Note this:



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Let's help them out a little bit. Those of you who have lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for a year are eligible to sign up. If you're interested, call 1-800-606-NWCR . They'll send you a packet of info to fill out. Your name is kept confidential. More info by clicking <a href="http://www.uchsc.edu/nutrition/nwcr.htm"> here. </a>

I'd do it, but I'll have to find pictures of me at 160 lbs, then I'll have to get down to 130 and keep it off for a year.

Thanks, Kristine. I'll do that in a year. I'm only just down now about 30 pounds, so I have to wait a year (when I'll be down even more ) to send them my info. But you can bet I will then.

;-Deb

I contacted The National Weight Control Registry online and by telephone and obtained two copies of their application. I qualify for their registry in every way having started Atkins in June 1999 and lost 35 pounds in 4 months. My weight has drifted lower to a recent total loss of 50 pounds where I remain within 5 pounds.

In addition to weight loss my health has soared and all minor ailments have been corrected or healed, such as:

Previous bad cholesterol ratios returned to ideal.

Previous high-normal blood pressure returned to ideal.

Previous allergies subsided.

A 20 year old skin problem on my hand completely disappeared.

Knee ache, stiffness and "cracking" completely disappeared.

No new ailment appeared.

I could have complied with all of the requirements of the Registry but began to wonder what good it would do. These people appear to be very prejudice toward the old low-fat, low-cholesterol dogma. Making application is to much work to just have it thrown into the waste basket.

Besides, I got thinking. Dr. Atkins could have easily proven the wonderful results obtained by the low-carbohydrate diet over the years but did not. He could have easily given the statistical results from all of his patients but has not. Certainly their results would be the same as mine and others here on Low-Carber but he has withheld information. Why? I don't know other than it was a brilliant move that has kept him at the top of the weight-loss diet gurus for 40 years.

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So, I'm not sending in my application. hehehehe

Let them get fat and get diabetes for their ignorance. I tell people the wonderful health benefits of LC and give them plenty of documentation to prove it. But if they remain bull-headed and remain a carbo-addict, its fine with me.

The experts on the other side know LC works. That is the reason they refuse to run a proper test for the last 40 years. It's all a religious thing or money. They either don't want us to eat animals, or they are connected with the multibillion dollar food manufacturing industry that has developed 1000 different ways to modifying carbohydrates into stuff they call food.

Kent