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in History of low-carb diets 
Obesity is caused by flour-rich and starchy foods, such as bread, cookies and macaroni. This is not a new idea, and it certainly wasn’t I who said it first. The page above is from the book “The Physiology of Taste”, by a famous French food guru.
Ignorant people like to dismiss the ideas as a “fad diet”, but then this is an extremely long-lasting fad, as the book was published in 1825.
Why does a reduction of sugar and starch – variants of a low-carbohydrate diet – recur in thousands of different forms over hundreds of years? Simple.
Most people lose excess weight without hunger on a low-carbohydrate diet. It just works.
It’s not about a fad. It’s because it works.
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Food that should be STRICTLY FORBIDDEN by diabetics are sugar, juice, starches, bread, rice, flour, oats. Sadly this is now the base of the food pyramid and diabetics eating guidelines.
You're absolutely correct, low carb is not a fad, it sticks around because it works.
I couldn't figure out why my metabolic syndrome just got worse every year. At every check up, my doctor would tell me I had to eat less fat and more whole grains...so I would double-down on them again. The next year;repeat.
Then I read Wheatbelly and a light went off. More research let me to this great website.
And I am now well on the road to recovering my metabolic health.
I always love to read your articles for the humor. I laughed out loud after reading, "(Oddly, Epidemiologie für Dummies is only available in the German edition possibly due to social pressure from the Harvard School of Public Health)."
But I do have one delta. I think you should have mentioned Dr. Richard Bernstein. As you know, he is a diabetic and has written two excellent books on using low carb dieting to help control one's diabetes. BTW, his Diabetes Solution saved my one good eye and really my life.
Finally, I watched the movie Fed Up and was touched by the obese kids and their ordeal of a life. I'm fed up with the ADA and their fad diet. I plan to enter the beast by joining the ADA and see if I can't agitate them from inside their belly.
Prepare to encounter plenty of bile inside the belly.
I got my worse crashes after eating oats, even without sugar. Even a small bowl of oats could give me a sugar crash potent enough to make me call in sick.
I was trying to save money earlier this year and I tried adding carbs because they are so cheap. Even in small amounts, it made me gain weight. I can have a couple portions a week, but not more, and really I don't bother.
Such studies actually show lower carb in great light, 150g of carbs a day is allot. I follow lower carb higher fat diet now, it is hardly a diet but my appetite had reduced drastically I eat about 2 healthy meals, and one less healthy meal per day (I like to eat that way so I eat pretty much what I want). I often eat pastry for late breakfast (at least 3h after waking up) if I am hungry after waking up coffee fixes that (my blood pressure is actually low at morning I am not really hungry) the pastry has only about 35-40g of carbs, butter, and very little sugar this keeps me full to late lunch (muffin would make me feel like I am starving 15 minutes after eating it), I eat bread, and pasta but I portion control it, allot of meat, and cheese to small whole wheat (less carbs) bread roll, or scrambled eggs with that bread, or even small pizza if I feel like it 60g of carbs extra cheese completely fine at least for loosing weight, tiramisu, and hi fat ice cream are fine as well. The fat is necessary for me to eat at every meal if I want sugary fruit I can have very little (4-5 grapes just for taste) or I just eat it with full fat greek yogurt otherwise it makes me feel like I am starving myself. And to that normal dinner. I don't feel like I am eating little I eat only very tasty food without having to do some strange dietary exchanges (sorry but cooked vegetable doesn't replace pasta), and I rather eat little sugar then stevia. This diet is surprisingly easy, and I did lost 18kg so fat in 45 days 135kg>117kg, and as an added benefit I don't feel like I am starving myself like I did when I was eating less fat/more carb, even when I wasn't watching my diet I was hungry so often that I didn't even had time to eat at all those times.
I generally don't snack. I often eat raw non starchy veg because I simply like how they taste, and they are healthy but it has no affect on my appetite if I eat them or not I am not hungry eating 2-3 meals a day.
But that diet was too boring for I had stopped following it, and I had slowly gained weight over 8 years, and go from normal weight of 87kg to 135kg.
determined after the fact, so it's useless
as a strategy for losing weight.
deficit as a strategy to try to lose
weight is useless. Sorry if I was
unclear.