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I. Rage Robbins

1 year ago

in How To Eat Right on How To Split An Atom
I love your site and I subscribe to your feed, however I feel I must take issue with one remark in this entry.

It seems that people in America are willing to leave other people to their own devices when it comes to things like sexual peccadilloes, choice of college majors (no matter how unrealistic), and other lifestyle choices, except when it comes to dieting. I have been harassed in the office break room many a time for being on the Atkins diet, and these comments inevitably come from people who are having a peanut butter sandwich on white bread, a snickers bar, and a diet coke for their lunch. Not to peg them as hypocrites; I'm simply highlighting their knowledge of nutrition.

The belief among most people who are not informed about this style of eating is that following Atkins means cutting out carbs COMPLETELY. This is simply not true in any way whatsoever. In reality, the Atkins diet is focused on restricting the amount of carbs you eat, and restricting the carbs you do eat to those green vegetables which are packed with the most vitamins and nutrients possible. Thus, if one is to accurately follow the Atkins diet, one actually does "consume (carbohydrates) in moderation." I eat more vegetables on Atkins than I did before I began, when I was eating a pretty "regular" American diet.

I bring this up because I am very tired of this myth being spread around.

Keep up the good work!

Barrie, From the Atkins Side of the Fence
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