i'm sorry, people who look at that diet and think, "why yes, that looks healthy!!" deserve the clogged arteries and ketosis and heart disease and kidney failure. it would be so much easier to just read a basic health textbook and realize that PEOPLE NEED CARBOHYDRATES TO FUNCTION, and FAT IN MASSIVE AMOUNTS IS BAD FOR YOU.
Right. So what if we've learned that eating too much red meat, eggs, and bacon is bad for us? Atkins says I'll lose weight if I have a burger of that, as long as I don't eat the bun! Losing weight = I'm healthy! Yay!
I'm always reminded of one of my mom's lectures: "You can eat whatever you want, but you have to do it in moderation."
He so is. Not only did he write about beer for a living (making my very popular in college) and now write about outdoors stuff, but he also plays soccer for a league and bass guitar for a blues band. He's one of my best friends.
that's exactly it. when did losing weight quickly become tantamount to health?? hey, when i was in high school, i developed an anxiety disorder and couldn't eat anything but saltines, and i lost thirty pounds in a month! if i can do it, so can you! so scary.
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Date: 2004-05-27 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 11:51 am (UTC)I'm always reminded of one of my mom's lectures: "You can eat whatever you want, but you have to do it in moderation."
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Date: 2004-05-27 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 01:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 12:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 12:37 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's not like, a gross oversimplification of what the first part of Atkins is (http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/12/15-464579.html).
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Date: 2004-05-27 12:55 pm (UTC)Just like Wolverine.