atkins

[nibot]

Around town, I've noticed signs popping up "We have low-carb meals!" That's right, the same fast-food eateries that jumped on the low-fat bandwagon are now on the low-carb bandwagon. Don't you think it would be more appropriate for Burger King to have a sign that said "Our meals have always been low-carb!"? It's just like those sugar candies that cheerily advertise "100% Fat Free!" or "Low in Sodium!"

In any case, the news today sort of un-vindicates Mr. Atkins, and states what anybody reasonable had always assumed:

Dr Robert Atkins, creator of the famous low-carbohydrate diet, was clinically obese at the time of his death, according to medical reports made public today. The New York medical examiner's records, which have been published by the Wall Street Journal, state that Dr Atkins weighed 18 and a half stone when he died last April after being injured in a fall on an icy New York City street. At 6ft tall, Dr Atkins, 72, would have qualified as obese, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention's body mass index calculator. - The [London] Times

Comments

[blackrock.livejournal.com]

I'm rather dubious of all diet trends, and as such, continue my normal cheap college diet of pasta and rice and maybe something else. It was probably the recommended diet at one point or another, and I figure that people wh switch from one trendy diet to the next as years pass will eventually stay about the same weight and live about as long as everyone else.

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[nibot.livejournal.com]

yeah. I think the key is that most Americans simply eat too much, no matter what it is they're eating.

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[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

I've heard it said that any arbitrary restriction that restricts the availability of food, whether it be cant-eat-fat, cant-eat-carbs, or cant-eat-brown-things has a similar effect on one's weight.

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[nibot.livejournal.com]

tricky. very tricky.