Re: 'Polish Atkins diet'

From: Jim Chinnis (jchinnis_at_SPAMalum.mit.edu)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:14:24 GMT

"TC" <tunderbar@hotmail.com> wrote in part:

>This brings up some good points for discussion.
>
>1) If high-fat/high-calories actually were the root cause of obesity,
>it would not take very long for these people to balloon to huges sizes.
>But it does not happen.
>
>2) If animal source high-fat foods were the root cause of most disease,
>then these people would be the sickest people around, but that does not
>seem to be the case.
>
>3) If high-fat/high-calories do not always cause obesity, then what are
>the medical authorities basing their low-fat/high-carb nutritional
>policies on?
>
>4) If animal source high-fat foods don't always cause disease, then
>what are the medical authorities basing their
>low-fat/low-cholesterol/pill-popping cholesterol and heart disease
>policies on?
>
>I guess we now have the Polish-American paradox in our very midst now.
>Add it to the list of nutritional paradoxes.
>
>This is a great quote:
>
> "I'm sure you've heard their claims that their joint pain is gone and
> diabetes is gone," he says. "And they say it because it's true. You
>can
> apparently get a lot of benefits if you decrease your carbohydrate
> intake, and stop taking in all the white flour and stop taking in all
> the refined foods because you are not stressing your body out all the
> time with all of the insulin spikes and becoming hyperglycemic and
> hypoglycemic."
>
>Sounds familiar, eh?
>
>TC

I think you are adding in "high-calories." I haven't seen that
mentioned, though people on the "Polish/Optimal" diet may be
consuming more calories. I had assumed they were consuming fewer
if they were losing weight. 

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Jim Chinnis   Warrenton, Virginia, USA