Re: Very low fat versus very low carb diets

>>You said that you hate it when people use their own personal diet anecdotes to declare that it is the way things are, and you also went on at length about your personal experience with the Pritikin diet.<<

The anecdotes were being used for two different things. I used an
anecdote to buttress my claim that, despite currently conventional
wisdom, high carbohydrate diets are not toxic for everyone and may even
be helpful for certain people (in this case me). I was very careful to
emphasize that my own, personal experience may not be broadly
generalizable, and I offered my opinion that my own unique genetics may
make such a diet work for me. Even Barry Sears, in his original Zone
Diet book (trashing the ultra low fat approach) said that (based on
what, he didn't say) about 25% of people seem to do OK on such diets.
I'm not even arguing for a percentage (what is the "lowest common
denominator" diet which works of the most people). I was just arguing
that the number was certainly above ZERO, based on my own described
anecdotal experience.

In the other situation, the discusser made the blanket statement that
high carb diets were unsuitable for Type II diabetics, based on her own
anecdotal experience. I opined that I hated when people did this (used
their own personal experience to generalize to the whole world).

More later...

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