In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:51:28 -0600, "jmcquown"
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> I for one don't understand the concept of eating just fats and losing
> >> weight. It might work but what are you doing to your arteries?
> >> Having two parents who have had to have surgery for arterial
> >> blockages due to cholesterol (and they weren't even *trying* to eat
> >> nothing but fat) it just doesn't make sense. It does make sense to
> >> balance your diet and not eat NO fat but not eat all fat.
> >
> > I'm not sure which diet you're talking about. I've never, ever heard
> > of an all fat diet.
> >
> > Carol
>
> Atkins. It's basically all about eating fat and nothing but.


That's quite an exaggeration. I could agree that it involves more high
fat meats than some other diets.

Of course, diets are a funny thing. There are the vegetarians who eat
fish and chicken. I believe that there are in fact people who say they
are on "Atkins" who see it as a license to eat all the meat and fat that
they want, without actually bothering to find out what the diet is about.

I've about given up on diets, not that I ever followed one. I took a
diabetes class some years back. We were supposed to eat carbs, lots of
them. They were on the bottom of the food pyramid, the basis of the
diet. So I took another class a few years later, when my blood glucose
went out of control. It was taught by the same teacher. Now it's low
carbs. So a student asks, just what *are* we supposed to eat? That had
her stumped. She finally blurted out, "vegetables!".

Now, I do watch my diet, but I just don't know what to believe.

What I finally hit upon was to walk three hours a day. Doesn't have
much to do with diet, but it seems to work. Besides, I really like to
walk.

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Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA