I totally agree with you Deb that people at high risk for heart disease should be low-carbing. I stated that the AHA suggests low-fat to those high risk patients. That is because they don't recognize low-carbing as an option. It has a stigma against it as we all know because of the tidal wave of government money put to back the pyramid and the low-fat researchers.

So due to prejudice, ignorance, unwillingness to look at alternatives and very closed-minds, people like Ornish are stuck with a very narrow view of the world. The government has turned down funding for research into low-carbing until just recently.

Low-carbing is the very best way to get lipid values to normal. The scientific community just needs to catch up with what all the rest of us already know by experience. They've got their nose caught in a book and they are not looking at real people. It's a matter of their vision versus reality.