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(kansasman) wrote:


I have read that also- that Atkins has no long term advantages. This
is perhaps because Atkins does not embrace all of the values of the
balanced diet. There is nothing wrong with having some carbos, a
small sliver of birthday cake at a party. It is when people go
overboard that there is a problem.


Yes, I think that everybody cheats a little on any diet.

Atkins not only isn't balanced, but it spits on the USDA food pyramid.
The USDA food pyramid is blatently wrong. I heard Dr. Atkins say one
time in a TV interview that the USDA food pyramid was designed as a
tool to fatten hogs for slaughter. It was designed to make hogs get
fat quick. It worked too, and now they are telling kids in school to
eat like that. And they're getting fat too.

When I was a kid, I didn't know any better and I ate milk and cereal
every day for breakfast. I had no idea the harm I was doing to myself
with that many carbs a day like that. I wish Dr. Atkins was around
back then.

How old was Dr. Atkins when he died recently?


Matt