Carmen wrote:

> Dana Carpender wrote:
>
>>Krusty wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"jombithedjinn" > wrote
>>>
>>>
>>>>You obviously know nothing about nutrition. Do you REALLY think human
>>>>beings were truly meant to eat grass like wheat and barley? I'm sure
>>>>that you do, you're just the type to be so undereducated.
>>>
>>>
>>>You're a ****ing idiot.
>>>
>>>Seriously.
>>>
>>>And you're totally wrong.
>>>
>>>Wrong, AND an idiot.
>>>
>>>Happy to Help.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You're long on vitriol and short on facts. Care to back up your big mouth?
>>
>>Dana
>
>
> Hi Dana. Carmen here, one of the old-timers in ASDL-C. Wanted to take
> a moment to say that this sort of quasi-cultist "all-or-nothing" thread
> is what helped get Atkins tagged as a fad. It helped it appeal to the
> "quick fix" crowd, and we saw them swell this newsgroup to amazing
> traffic flow stats. As you can see now, ASDL-C is getting a mere
> trickle of posts nowadays, and most old-timers have quietly faded away.
> I pop my head in every once in a while, but it gets old seeing the
> same rigidity exhibiting itself. For those of us who've adapted to a
> low carb diet for the longterm it's usually for health reasons, and we
> end up learning that the "carbs are evil" mantra that got us started
> isn't quite true. For people with functional endocrine systems, who
> live healthy lifestyles and eat an overall healthy diet carbs are no
> big deal, just more fuel for the furnace. For diabetics carbs are a
> firewalk, you find out what your body likes and functions well on - for
> me it's things like lentils and AllBran w/Extra Fiber - and let it have
> those carbs.
>
> When you go down the path of "people shouldn't eat carbs" and then
> start trying to justify it by cherry-picking data (and you have been,
> I've been watching the thread) it doesn't help legitimize low-carb as
> an option for those who need it. It just makes low carb (and by
> extension low carbers) look whacked-out.
>


I've never said "people shouldn't eat carbs." I've said that a diet
based on grains and beans is radically different from the evolutionary
diet of the species, and that it's difficult to make a case for those
foodstuffs being essential to human nutrition.

Indeed, I have long said that different people can tolerate differing
carb loads, that people have to tweak their diet to see what works for
them, and that interpreting "low carb" to mean "no carb" -- ie, eggs,
meat, and cheese, and virtually nothing else -- is a very bad idea.

Dana