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Hello and welcome back to another installment of “Wacky Week” here at The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
In Episode 199, Jimmy shares his conversation with Konstantin Monastyrsky, a trained pharmacist, burglar alarm installer, computer programmer and the self-proclaimed “Russian Atkins.” Ostensibly, Mr. Monastyrsky was asked on the show to discuss his fabulously researched book Fiber Menace. But as you’ll see, that didn’t really happen at all.
Monastyrsky instead chose to spend half the interview giving a tireless account of his personal life and curriculum vitae since the 1970’s. When Jimmy was able to steer the conversation to Fiber Menace, rather than answer the simple questions Jimmy asked about the book, this guy launched into yet another breathless tirade in which he managed to imply that Veronica Atkins is a liar, and part of a conspiracy to cover-up the REAL reason how Dr. Atkins died. Furthermore, he goes after Dr. Mike Eades and other authors as well for failing to live up to his lofty expectations.
The essential gist seems to be that while Konstantin Monastyrsky does endorse a low (actually a zero) carbohydrate diet, he feels that every major book written on the subject by actual doctors has very basic errors that only HE has been able to discern. The source of this wisdom seems to be the 30+ year old Soviet anatomy textbooks which he held onto since studying pharmacology in the 1970’s.
Add to that the notion that he apparently doesn’t think dietary fiber is very good for you either. He felt strongly enough to write an entire book about it but didn’t offer much in the way of support for his theory beyond saying “… I realized…” We are actually inclined to agree that fiber is not a “cure-all” for weight and health and may even be harmful in certain circumstances. But it seems odd to assert that one Indian dinner has enough fiber to cause a man to be hospitalized for bowel obstruction or to take the bombastic attitude to assert, “Give me the name of a disease and I say, well, carbs are somehow implicated.”
Of course you are invited to draw your own conclusions, but this is certainly, undeniably, a memorable (dare we say Wacky) interview we’ll not soon forget!
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 199
- Biography of Konstantin Monastyrsky
- Fiber Menace: The Truth About the Leading Role of Fiber in Diet Failure, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Disease, and Colon Cancer
- FiberMenace.com
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