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Have we been “brainwashed against carbs”?!

By Jim July 22, 2011

“We are brainwashed against carbs. But it is the wrong message" -- Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, coauthor of The Carb Lovers Diet and  senior food and nutrition editor of Health Magazine, quoted in Diet Review: The Carb Lovers Diet and Resistant Starch Foods. WebMD. Before I discuss this brainwashing claim, let me explain the context. Most mornings, I get up early, brew coffee, eat breakfast and turn on the TV to catch the local news and weather.  The best local TV news happens to be on an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Critiques, Media Watch Tagged With: Baby Food, Carb Lovers, diet, diets compared, GMA, HCG, low-carb

Is the Dukan Diet “Atkins-like”? Not really

By Jim June 12, 2011

On Good Morning America this morning [June 1], Juju Chang referred to the Dukan Diet as "Atkins-like."   Her report was about Dr. Dukan suing for libel another French doctor who had bad-mouthed the diet. The Atkins people may feel that Chang has libeled them.  The Atkins website features a detailed contrast of the Atkins and Dukan Diets, the point of which is that Atkins is balanced and backed by science and Dukan is not.  A key criticism leveled in the full-text of the Atkins article is that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Critiques, Media Watch Tagged With: Atkins, diets compared, Dukan, GMA

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