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