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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2125)	11/24/2008 3:59:30 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 39304

the advice this author has been teaching for a couple decades: As I said, the diet advice to "get off starches and sweets" was the prevailing one for 100 years. The reverse is now known to be true, but the "eat grains" concept is still there with the medical establishment, and rubber stamped by the American Heart Association. They get multi-million dollar support from the prepared food industry, and will give it up reluctantly. Our present diet advice is responsible for a 20+ Billion dollar food industry. It isn't going away overnight.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2125)	11/24/2008 10:19:15 AM
From: Joe NYC	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39304

Peter, That sounds like the advice this author has been teaching for a couple decades: I am not sure. Gary Taubs is actually critical of the low carb diets (and overemphasis on exercise). Here is a quote from one of the reviews of the book you linked: "This diet still makes the most sense to me. Smaller portions of protein, low-fat, and high complex carbohydrates. However, it seems that Mr. Haas has an axe to grind with the authors of the low-carb diets, because he spends too many pages bashing them, and not enough pages describing his own ideas. There's no doubt that the low-carb craze made the original Eat to Win diet unpopular, what with the baked potato being one of its main staples! If Atkins made your bestselling book obsolete, you'd be mad too. I just wish he had kept most of his negativity to himself. People who go on diets are looking for positive words. Joe