I found this article on another low-carb web site and found it to be very pertinent and interesting.

Take a look at it


Are you sick of Atkins vs. Ornish? Me too... On The Importance of Asking the Right Question

Excellent article!!!

I often get frustrated with the focus of Atkins as a "diet". It's about quality of life. If low carbing wasn't healthy for me, I'd be outta here. But I know it is healthy because that's why I started it. Not to lose weight, but to regain my health. I used to follow a low-fat, vegetarian diet and got very ill. Low carb was the correction for years of abuse to my body while on low fat (which almost always means high sugar).

Not only are the media asking the wrong questions, but researchers are also asking the wrong questions. Of course a low-fat diet will be better for you if your are testing a high fat, high carb diet against a low fat, high carb diet. Let's have a study to test 4 groups: 1) high fat, high carb 2) low fat, high carb, 3) high fat, low carb, and 4) low fat, low carb --- let the results speak for themselves so we don't have to hear this endless debate. At least people can make informed decisions about what is best for themselves.

I know Atkins tries to advocate his diet as a healthy lifestyle, but I think it will always be relegated as a diet, nothing more. I hope I'm wrong. Maybe as more long-term data comes out, we will see a turn in thinking by the medical and nutritional communities.

Wanda

I really mean this

I always get tongue tied when I eat out with friends or I cook for family, I get questioned all the time about low carbing but I get a rush of thoughts and I get.. well... tongue tied.
I loved the bad question verses the good question. Now when I get asked if I'm on that "all meat diet" I can talk to them about my "healty low carb diet and how its a healthy way of losing weight".
Thank you so much for sharing!!

Good article, I would quibble with a couple of things. I believe that a higher fat, over 50%, diet is sustainable for life and healthier than adding back too much in the way of carbohydrates. I also believe that many people shouldn't eat grains at all, whole or not, due to allergies and "leaky gut syndrome". The nitrate threat to health is based on some pretty weak evidence and I don't worry much more about that than I do about cholesterol levels. Nyah Levi