Jimmy Moore Gets Some Low-Fat Love Fan Mail (Episode 53)
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Hello and welcome to another dose of the uniquely talented Jimmy Moore and his super red-hot “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” podcast!
In Episode 53 today, Jimmy announces an exciting contest for free GoLower Chocolate Creme Bars compliments of our friends at CarbSmart.com. Tune in to find out how easy it is to enter and WIN a 24-pack of these bars for yourself just for being a faithful listener to “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.”
Then, be sure to stick around to hear our host Jimmy answer a bit of “fan mail” from one of our lovely low-fat lovin’ friends over at PETA. It never ceases to amaze us that while Jimmy always supports those who’ve found success on plans like Ornish and Pritikin, fans of these low-fat diet approaches are among the first to defame the late great Dr. Robert C. Atkins and all of us who have been radically changed by livin’ la vida low-carb.
Listen today as Jimmy sets ‘em straight as only he can!
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 53
- Be one of the first ten people to leave a comment in this post and send an e-mail to Jimmy Moore with your name, address, city, state, and zip code and you will win 24 FREE GoLower Chocolate Creme Bars in the flavor of your choice! GOOD LUCK!!!
- The “How To Have The Best Low-Carb Summer” page at CarbSmart.com
- Related blog post: “Low-Fat: Been There, Done That, Made Me Fat”
- Related blog post: Dr. Atkins Death Debate Resurrected
- Related blog post: “Trifling Lawsuit Against Atkins Dismissed, Judge Says Diet ‘Protected By The First Amendment’”
Did you miss anything Jimmy said? That’s OK, we have a full transcript of today’s episode available for you if you click the following link!
Transcript:
Hey there and welcome to Episode 53 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” I invite you to visit our web site at TheLivinLowCarbShow.com to access everything you could ever want to know about this podcast show. You can find out more about the show, read a brief bio about me, access all of our fine sponsors, listen to any of the past shows in our archives section, and so much more!
Drop by for a visit this week and leave us a comment about the show. If you do, then there’s a special prize waiting for the first ten people compliments of CarbSmart.com. You’ll receive 24 of those outstanding low-carb GoLower Chocolate Creme Bars in either Chocolate or Raspberry flavors. Yep, that’s right! All you have to do to be a winner is provide a comment in this week’s episode and then send an e-mail to me at livinlowcarbman@charter.net with your full name, address, city, state and zip code. You know you have an opinion to share–good, bad, or ugly–so let’s hear it! Good luck from “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore” and CarbSmart.com!
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I have written many articles at my LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com blog about why I believe the low-carb way of eating is a more preferred plan for weight loss and improving your health for many people than a low-fat/low-calorie/portion-controlled diet. I have listed many reasons why I believe that is true based on scientific studies and personal stories from people who have tried both nutritional approaches. But my primary concern with the low-fat diet is that it is very difficult for many people to sustain over the long-term and I base that on my own experience of trying and failing over and over again. But not everyone agrees with that, including a very enthusiastic fan of the low-fat diet who challenged me in an e-mail last year about my negative opinions regarding that dietary approach in addition to my strong support for the low-carb lifestyle. The e-mail was entitled “Saved by the low-fat diet” and I will share it with you now along with my own comments about what this gentleman had to say from time to time to set him straight when he goes astray:
“Dear Mr. Moore: Hello. You don’t know me, but I feel I have a deep responsibility to mail you about my story.”
Well, actually, you E-mailed me, but that’s close enough.
“Earlier this year, I weighed close to 280 pounds. I had high blood pressure, border-line diabetes, high (bad) cholesterol and low (good) cholesterol. I was hobbled by vicious gout attacks. I was in no good shape, to say the least.”
WOW! You sound like a GREAT candidate for the low-carb lifestyle.
“My father, a wise man, gave me a book by Nathan Pritikin. The Pritikin system is a low-fat diet rich in COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES. (There is a big difference between COMPLEX CARBS and SIMPLE CARBS–something you rarely acknowledge in your blog, by the way.)”
Since you seem to know everything there is to know about the difference, then why don’t you share with everyone what a complex carb is compared with a simple carb? How about giving us some tangible examples? Obviously there are some good carbs which even the late great Dr. Robert C. Atkins constantly mentioned in his books for people to start consuming as they get their weight under control when they begin to maintain their weight loss. But when you are first starting off on a low-carb program, I think it is more important for people to know that limiting their carb intake to a level that is less than what they are used to eating can and will help them lose weight if they follow the program as prescribed. That’s the miracle of the low-carb lifestyle.
“I followed this diet very carefully and of course I exercised a lot. I lost close to seventy pounds and both my blood pressure, and my (bad) cholesterol fell, and I am feeling better than ever. Gout is gone.”
CONGRATULATIONS! That is a great achievement and you should be very proud that you have been able to improve your health and get your weight under control. I know how hard that mountain is to climb, so kudos to you.
“I know something about science and medicine one thing I have learned is this: There are studies that prove EVERYTHING, Mr. Moore. To know the truth, you can not just look at one current in the sea but ignore the whole sea.”
Okay, then, using that as a template for discussion, why is it that low-fat supporters are constantly pointing to the same so-called studies which are mostly short-term and or small-scale ones to claim that low-carb is allegedly unhealthy and dangerous? How many of the positive studies that have come out in recent years regarding the low-carb way of eating do you see published prominently in the media? My contention is not nearly enough of them are made public for people to learn the WHOLE truth about the healthy alternative that low-carb living provides. That’s why I created my LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com blog and this podcast show to help spread the word about the good news coming out about livin’ la vida low-carb. And there is a LOT of GREAT NEWS to share with more to come. As more and more studies continue come out, especially ones that look at the effect of low-carb plans over a span of 5, 10 or 20 years, science and medicine will show that Dr. Atkins was right after all and a newfound interest in low-carb will ensue at that time. It’s already happening to some degree, but mark my words now. It’s coming!
“I mean, Jesus, Mr. Moore…”
No, I’m not Jesus. But I do believe in Him as my personal Lord and Savior as a Christian since I was seven years old.
“…can you really deny the stories of people who participated in Dr. Dean Ornish’s various studies? Can you deny their PET scans? Can you deny Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who has had similar results? Can you deny Dr. John McDougall’s work, which shows how a low fat, vegan diet has helped so many folks?”
I don’t deny anyone’s story of successful weight loss. In fact, I publicly applaud anybody who has been able to lose weight and keep it off regardless of the way they did it. I have no doubt in my mind that people who eat a low-fat diet can and do lose weight. In fact, I lost an incredible 170 pounds on the low-fat diet in 1999 when I was bound and determined to get my weight and health under control. But, like so many people who eat a low-fat diet, I was miserable, just plain miserable and I was ALWAYS hungry. I felt like something was missing despite the fact that I had lost so much weight and improved my health numbers. If people can keep up that kind of diet as a permanent lifestyle change forever and ever amen, then good for them. I have not and will not put down anyone who finds a permanent way to lose weight that will work for them. It is the duty of anyone who finds a way out of their weight problem to do it and share with others what happened for them. Thus, here I am telling my story of weight loss success on the low-carb lifestyle and the amazing life I now live because of it!
“Let’s go backward from Dr. Ornish. Before him, there was Nathan Pritikin. He suffered from bad heart disease. He developed a low fat diet and began eating it–before anyone argued it was a good idea, by the way. And guess what? He reversed his own heart disease — FACT!”
Okay, and your point is? I never said eating a low-fat diet wasn’t going to help people with heart disease. But so will any diet that can help you shed the excessive pounds you might be carrying around on your body. People who lose weight, regardless of their chosen program, will see improvements in their health because they will cease to be overweight or obese. Don’t underestimate the damage that is being done to your entire body when you carry around 50, 100, or 200 pounds of extra weight that God did not intend for you to have. When you free yourself of that blob of fat that seems to infest every inch of your body, then the result will be unbelievable improvements in your overall health. That’s a “fact” you can live with…literally!
“In contrast to Atkins, by the way, the full record of PRITIKIN’S autopsy is PUBLIC RECORD. Every artery was as clean as a whistle. (He died from leukemia, which he fought for decades.) The full record of Atkins’ autopsy (who sued Pritikin to silence him) is secret. He was clinically obese, though. (Only in America can a clinically obese man be a diet guru!)”
Aha! Now the truth is coming out. You aren’t just some average, ordinary fan of the low-fat diet. By spouting off such vicious and ridiculous lies which have been found to be just plain wrong about Dr. Atkins, you have now shown yourself to be a militant activist in the low-fat movement. Those snide remarks are a very clear indication that this guy is on the same anti-Atkins page as that nut case Jody Gorran and his pals at the PETA-inspired and funded Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine (PCRM) run by Dr. Ornish. These radicals have made it their mission in life to smear and tear down anything and everything that allows people to enjoy eating meat. That is the real agenda of people like Dr. Dean Ornish and his grunt here. Instead of taking a genuine interest in people’s health, they would much rather attempt to personally destroy a man’s like Dr. Atkins even after he is dead and gone simply because they disagree with what he espoused in his life’s work. That is a very sad state of affairs to be in when you stoop to that level of humanity. It is despicable and these people ought to be ashamed of themselves. Dr. Atkins was a hero and his legacy will continue to live on in people like Jimmy Moore and the countless others who have been radically changed for the better because of his courageous efforts to share the truth.
“Before Pritikin, the Duke University RICE diet saved many a person’s life. (It is still around today, by the way, with a good emphasis on low fat diets and has helped millions.) But go back further–read any social history book. Throughout human history, in virtually every culture, bread is the STAFF OF LIFE. Every culture’s diet has a backbone of carbohydrate. Just think: Aztecs (corn), Irish (potatoes, when there was no famine at least), Roman/Italian (pasta/bread), Asians all have rice as key diet component.”
Ah, history. I just love this argument by the low-fatties. They boast that since all previous cultures have been just fine without a low-carb diet, why do we need one now? It sounds like a good argument, right? WRONG! This is 2007 and times have indeed changed. The biggest change is in the amount of food that is available today, with most of it containing high amounts of sugar, refined carbohydrates, fast food, junk food, and other extremely poor high-carb food choices. Nobody says carbs in and of themselves are necessarily bad for you. But overconsuming carbs in the form of sugar, white flour, starchy foods, and the like is what has led us to the problem we have with obesity today. Can you eat lots of carbs and still lose and maintain your weight? Sure, but don’t try eating a box of Twinkies and a case of sugary sodas with all that pasta and bread and expect your weight to do anything but go way up!
“It is still true everywhere in the world. But go back further. All our closest ancestors in the animal kingdom are either vegetarians or close to it. The basis of ALL healthy human diets are CARBOHYDRATES. This is not propaganda. It is a fact. Show me ANY civilization in which people base or based their diets on animal food and fats. Show me one! Another fact: Vegetarians live on average 5-7 years longer than meat eaters. (From the book Becoming Vegan)”
Here we go with the PETA stuff again. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors are a prime example of a civilization with a diet based on animal food and fats. Yep, gotcha on that one! I think I’ll take a pass on the whole vegetarian lifestyle if you don’t mind. In fact, I’m a VERY HAPPY carnivore who is one of those who doesn’t mind being a part of “People Eating Tasty Animals,” as I affectionately like to refer to PETA. 
As for the assertion that “all healthy human diets are carbohydrates,” I would certainly beg to differ. I could eat a diet consisting of nothing but carbs and would have to constantly be shoving food into my mouth to try to satisfy the hunger beast. By the way, who are these “closest ancestors in the animal kingdom?” Are you trying to go Darwin on me by looking at monkeys and gorillas for how humans are supposed to eat? Oh, that’s just classic! Hang on a second while I laugh my guts out! Ha ha ha ha ha! Okay, I feel much better now. UGH! If these vegetarianites weren’t so naturally funny with their ignorant beliefs, then nobody would ever pay any attention to them.
“For example, I am an ESL teacher. I teach immigrants English. I see how this works. People come from their homelands, where they eat diets rich in complex carbohydrates and low in fat. They come here, eat a high fat diet and boom they get American lifestyle diseases, like heart disease. I know, you say it is the carbs. But how can that be? Mexican people, for example, eat a diet rich in corn, beans, rich vegetables (call rich in carbs) and use meat as basically a condiment. (By this I mean their own home diets, not Americanized-Mexican restaurants, which aren’t really Mexican food.) Among poor Mexicans, heart disease is nonexistent. People in their seventies regularly work in the field–ask anyone from rural Mexico. They come to America and eat too much fat and too many SIMPLE CARBS and get sick. I see this everyday.”
Let me give you kudos for helping legal immigrants learn the English language. It is an honorable and thankless job but one that is vital for the future of our country as more and more people move to the United States. But your claim that these immigrants come to America and get fat because of “a high fat diet” could not be further from the truth. The large amounts of sugar found in soft drinks and other high-carb junk foods are exactly what makes those people become overweight or obese. Ignoring the role that sugar and other refined carbohydrates play in your diet is in my opinion neglecting the primary reason we have an obesity problem that keeps getting worse and worse. If people would just cut sugar and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) out of their diets, then the obesity rates would drop faster than you can say “toldyaso!”
“I know you lost weight and have kept it off, but you are mortgaging your health to do it friend. The plaque is building in your heart’s arteries and along your veins. It hurts me to see you promoting this diet. You might tell me I won’t be able to keep this off. Well, I will write next year and show you! But I will tell you this: My father has done it. The book he gave me was printed in the late seventies. He in 71 years old and just retired from hard labor factory work.”
This has been a very “healthy” discussion, ALL PUN INTENDED! As for my personal health, it has never been better. Even my doctor is just dumbfounded by the remarkable turnaround he has seen from me being a 410-pound ticking timebomb to a vibrant 220-something pound example of a physically fit and extremely healthy human being. My HDL cholesterol and especially my tryglicerides are at their best levels they have ever been in my entire life and my doctor is proudly recommending livin’ la vida low-carb to anyone who wants to get those health indicators under control. There is something you need to know about me, though. I cannot ignore anything that has made such a change in my life as the low-carb lifestyle has. I am not one to keep silent when there are so many others who could benefit from what I have been able to learn and personally experience with this. That’s why my passion and zeal for low-carb is so direct and unapologetic. I have to tell the whole world what livin’ la vida low-carb has done for me to maybe, just maybe, give someone else out there a little bit of hope and encouragement that they need to do this for themselves and improve their own health.
Again, let me say that I am proud of you for losing weight on a low-fat diet and wish you the best for many, many years of happy and healthy living. But you will never hear me criticize the low-fat dieters for “mortgaging your health.” I think that is unnecessarily hyperbolizing your own opinions about the low-carb lifestyle and stating them as fact. Actually, your statements about people who eat low-carb cannot be backed up with any scientific or medical evidence whatsoever. It is just more propaganda from a group with a very clear agenda. In the meantime, those of us who are livin’ la vida low-carb will keep on traveling down this road of life confident that we have improved our health and controlled our weight permanently. Neither you nor any of your low-fat friends can take the joy of that accomplishment away from any of us who have been and will continue to be successful on the low-carb lifestyle. By the way, it’s been over a year since you e-mailed me and I haven’t heard a word about whether you have kept up on your low-fat diet as you promised. Perhaps you realize just how foolish you were and started livin’ la vida low-carb. It’s the best thing you could ever do for your health!
That’s it for Episode 53 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” THANKS for listening and please feel free to share your comments about this interesting e-mail I received from a low-fat zealot. If you have anything else to add to the conversation, then please feel free to leave your feedback in the show notes section at TheLivinLowCarbShow.com. Don’t forget, the first ten people to leave a comment and send their name and address to me at livinlowcarbman@charter.net will win 24 GoLower Chocolate Creme Bars! Good luck everyone! Be sure to listen in on Thursday’s podcast as I’ll have another great interview from my recent trip to the ASBP obesity conference in Nashville, Tennessee. So, until then, keep on livin’ la vida low-carb!
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From over 400 pounds to 230, Jimmy Moore is 
Thanks for the consistently great blog!
Bren
Here we go again with the lowfat “religion”. I tell you what Jimmy–after having had WLS 3 yrs ago–I follow a very low carb eating plan–after getting in my protein and fat there’s really no more room in my tiny tummy for anything else. This guy talks about the difference in complex and simple carbs—sorry man they all turn to glucose in the body–just at different rates.
I just recently had some lab work done—prior to my WLS—my triglycerides were greater than 1500—yes you read that right—now they are in the 30’s—not that it matters a hill of beans but my total cholesterol was 145—with my HDL being above normal. But who really cares about the other numbers–cholesterol is healthy for the body to have. My true testament to living a low carn lifestyle is the effect it has on my brain—as yopu have shown in numerous posts fat is good for the brain. I suffer from Bipolar disorder and a ketogenic diet–80% fat has been shown to reduces the effects of this disorder in mice—they want to do a study with people but have been unable to get enough to join the study—they need to call me—-
I wonder what shape this man is in right now—a year later………
I wonder, too, BamaGal! Is he too afraid to admit he was wrong after all?
THANKS for your comment, Bren! So, you like my blog…but what about this podcast? LOL! I appreciate your support.
I just love your show! You have a passion about low carb that shines through. I don’t follow Atkins, but I’ve lost 100 pounds over the last year by cutting out sugar, flour, potatoes, and rice. You may call it controlled carb, I feel best when I keep my carbs under 80 grams . But as you like to say, it’s something I feel I can live with for the rest of my life. Keep up the great work Jimmie!
THANKS, Deb! Under 80g carbs daily is WHOLE LOT BETTER than what most people eat. CONGRATS on your amazing weight loss on your low-carb diet. YOU GO GIRL!
Why can’t we all just get along? I too lost weight on a low fat diet, but after struggling miserably and desperately to maintain for a year, I now know I cannot eat that way for the rest of my life. I also am a sugar addict, and once I start with a little refined sugar or flour, I can’t stop. If he can do it and be happy, more power to him. I would be really surprised if he can stay happy eating this way however.
I agree, Gina! Low-fat dieting was miserable for me, too. What’s really bad is I ate so much sugar on that “low-fat” diet thinking I was eating healthy because that big bad fat wasn’t going inside my mouth. What a dope I was! But I know better now.
Thanks, Jimmy, for a great show, as usual! I too get very hungry if I eat many carbs at all. I have been that way since I was a kid.
I was also glad to hear from BamaGal’s comment about ketogenic diets helping with bi-polar disorder. We have some family issues with that and it will be helpful information. Thanks, Jimmy, for keeping us up to date on the issues!
Kay
Carbs begat cravings for MORE carbs and the ruthless cycle will grip you! This whole idea that the “body needs carbs” excessively is one of the biggest health lies we have been forced to believe in our lifetime.
Thankfully a few of us have discovered the truth, but there are many more who are being left in the dark. I’ll do my best to reach the masses.
I am looking forward to trying the GoLower bars. Thanks for the wealth of info you provide.
That wonderful, oh-so-politically correct and oh-so-healthy Pritikin diet that this gentleman so enthusiastically promotes happens to be exactly the diet that killed my father. Too bad he didn’t email me, as then I could tell him exactly what I think of his dietary delusions and his cheap, baseless, scientifically untenable PETA propaganda.
Maybe he should read the book “Beyond Pritikin”, written by the former Director of that diet institute, after she left - DISGUSTED with the disastrous long-term effects this extremely low-fat diet had on the patients! I bet he never heard of that one, huh?
The facts are that the Pritikin diet, even more imbecilic and dangerous than Ornish’s dietary delusions, has literally killed thousands of people - most of them from heart failures and stroke. If that guy doesn’t believe it, give him my email, Jimmy. I’ll send him a couple of autopsy reports and clinical studies that should open his eyes (although I doubt anything will open them).
This man is perhaps innocent and actually believes this unscientific nonsense. But people like Ornish and other proponents of extremely low-fat diets *must* know better, unless of course they ignore all sicentific evidence. Since their LIES killed my father, I will never stop exposing their nonsense. Because that’s what it is, pure, undiluted nonsense mixed with misconceptions, half-truths and propaganda.
A very lethal combination.
THANKS, John! How do you know you were one of my winners? LOL! Just kidding, you are. The GoLower Chocolate Creme Bars are amazing!
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I tried to follow the low fat diet for several years, but it was just a weight rollercoaster. I foolishly clung to it, thinking if I could only stick to it better, I would be fine. However, the insatiable cravings made that impossible.
The low fat diet just made me fatter and fatter and I ended up diabetic, with high blood pressure & high cholesterol. Now that I’ve adopted the “unhealty” low carb lifestyle, I’m getting better. If low fat worked for that guy, great, I’m happy for him. But it didn’t work for me.
Unbelievable story, Science! That oughta wake up a few of these radical minions, but it won’t. They blindly follow what they’ve been told is healthy without researching their facts.
Keep up the great work, Jimmy!
Happy Low Carbing!
Laura
I think you speak for most of us who have found success livin’ la vida low-carb, Dan! It’s sad, but true that low-fat is making a lot of people sicker and fatter than they would have been if they had decided to start the low-carb lifestyle instead. Some lessons are just harder to learn than others.
THANKS for checking in Laura! I’m happy to be doing what I am doing (even in a small way!) to help others find the joy of success that I have. THANK YOU for listening to my podcast show.
Love the pod casts! Low carb and moderate fats are the only way to go for me. I have struggled with my weight my whole life and now I’m 3 years into low carb and still loving it. There’s no where I go that I can’t find something good to eat that is good for me. I have more energy and feel better than I can remember. I feel satisfied and happy. I’m not totally meat tho - love my veggies and fruit too.
Keep on livin la vida low carb!!
THANKS for sharing, Darleen! You sound like me.
Where did all these people come from???!!! Great podcast Jimmy. I love how you can debate low carb vs. low fat without resorting to insults-they always drag out Dr. Atkins autopsy.You are definitely the man to ask about this lifestyle; so up to date with info. Thank you. It appears that I once again missed out on free stuff! DRAT!
It’s funny how the word “FREE” brings ‘em out the woodwork, Linda! But you are a winner, too! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Better late than never, I guess lol. the weather has been really bad here, and because of my vertigo and unbalance problems (Meniere’s yndrome) I wasn’t able to get to your website until this evening.
I have dial up, and can’t always listen to your podcast, even on my “good” days. So I really appreciate when you can put the transcipt up where folks like me can read through it, and benefit from it as well.
The no-meat, low fat, low calorie folks just drive me crazy on most days. Their agenda isn’t a matter of seeking out acceptance, but one of converting the whole world to their own warped way of thinking. Even if they have to lie to do it. I guess that’s worst part of it.
I tried a high profile, low fat, low calorie diet once. Weight Watchers to be exact. I knew better, since I had read Dr. Atkins’ first book back in 1975. At that time I lost 40 pounds on the original Atkins diet, which was goal weight, but wasn’t able to keep it off due to an unsupportive spouse. Constant opposition. Diet Sabbotage and all of that.
But my sister had lost a lot of weight on Weight Watchers, my mother was willing to pay for the weekly fees, and my husband wasn’t as opposed to it as he had been to low carb. Believing it wouldn’t cost him as much in the pocketbook department.
I lost 60 pounds doing it. But boye was I sure hungry all the time. Miserable. Food obsessed. With all of that counting and measuring and graphs and keeping track of every little weekly extra calorie.
When I got seriously stuck at 160 pounds (I’m 5ft 2in so I had a ways to go yet), for weeks on end, I began to grow desperate. But I was so hungry I couldn’t think straight. And the “only” way to get my weight to drop below that magic 160 number was to literally starve it off.
Well, that didn’t last long. Cause I was driven to eat an entire box of Weight Watcher’s ice cream sandwiches in a single afternoon, and just called it quits. It wasn’t worth it to me.
Later on, my sister and I tried to just do low-fat, no calorie counting, no one telling us what to eat, but that didn’t work for me either. I gained 10 pounds that month.
Maybe for those who aren’t so metabolically resistant to weight loss, the hunger isn’t as much of a problem, but that’s really, really hard to believe. Especially since I’ve lived on both sides of the fence now.
But then, maybe “that’s” the whole problem Jimmy. They haven’t lived on both sides of the fence, so their ignorant to the reality that “both” lifestyles work. Scientifically speaking.
Too bad. It might be a very interesting experiment indeed. But then, those kinds of folks would rather lie than put “the truth” to the test by going on low carb for 6 months, and proving us wrong. LOL.
THANKS for sharing your story, Vickie! You inspire me and I’m very proud of you.
Talk about uneducated! Broccoli has protein, so do beans, tempeh, and A LOT of other foods vegetarians and vegans consume. When a veg person (who may or may not be a PETA member - not all veg people are members) challenges you on something or poses a dialouge, your defenses and name calling says A LOT about you. People who believe in something strongly (ahem, Mr. Low Carb) don’t have to resort to defensive and immature behavior. You push a diet on people just like PETA does - what’s the diff? You ‘need’ dead animals to stay thin…
Rats - 25 comments so far so no prize for me - ah well, I’ll offer feedback anyway. I have become a regular listener. As I start my 25 minute walk each weekday morning, I put on your podcast on and up the hill I go (OK, three days it’s someone else). It’s become a ritual. Type II diabetic now, low carb has helped me drop 28 pounds so far and I’m real close to my BMI. That, and a few meds, have normalized my bloodwork. Meanwhile, my wife has dropped 23 pounds as well - so I’m glad to hear you wife has hopped on board - it can be hard going it alone in a household. Your podcast has a nice balance of passionate enthusiasm coupled with rational facts and interviews. No other podcast on this topic comes close - keep up the good work!
THANKS for your comments, Katt. I can appreciate where you are coming from, but there is a very clear difference between my enthusiastic support for a healthy lifestyle change that radically altered my life forever and the militant soldiers of the vegetarian movement funded and promoted by PETA.
I have lost weight eating a controlled-carb nutritional approach…a LOT of weight. How can I just sit idly by on my hands and not be exhuberant about the change in my life? I cannot and will not because it is arguably the best thing I have ever done for my health. So why not tell the whole world about it?
Conversely, you’ve got the PETA crowd (whether you like it or not, that radical group DOES speak for every vegetarian and vegan out there) who are spreading propaganda about how “dangerous” eating meat is. That’s just sour grapes if you ask me.
You have never heard me lambaste anyone who wants to eat a vegetarian diet if it is helping them get their weight and health under control. I’m all for people finding what works for them and then doing it forever. That’s my philosophy and I’ll never stand in the way of anyone finding their way to success.
I’m happy to eat my “dead animals” (am I supposed to eat them ALIVE?!?! EEEEK!) and keeping myself fit and healthy for the rest of my long life thanks to livin’ la vida low-carb.
I appreciate your comments, Katt, but you my dear are part of the problem not the solution to the obesity and health problems America faces.
THANKS so much, Ted! I’m happy to keep you entertained with my podcast as you jog up the hills of Knoxville. Keep up the great work as you control your weight and blood sugars. WAY TO GO, my friend!
I’m late getting here. I’m sure I’ve missed out on the freebees, but I still want to make a comment. I think the double standard among the low-fat groupies is appalling. They can make insults, tell us we are killing ourselves, attack our very intelligence… and then end it with “I care about you and hate to see you doing this to yourself” which of course makes it all ok. Yet the minute we suggets there might be a better way we are labled hatemongers and told that we should “live and let live”.
You wanna know when I’ll quit telling people about the great benefits of low-carb dieting? It’ll be when I’m dead, after living a wonderful, healthy long life. Maybe not even then.. I may have something ingraved on my tombstone about it, just to annoy the low-fatties who don’t follow their own “rules” for others behavior.
But, ya know, even then, Amy, they’ll say your low-carb diet is what killed you at 99 years old! HA!
This gentlemen that wrote this letter to you needs to know that if he keeps sucking those carbs down with that low fat diet, he’ll not only have to deal with his diebetes, but his liver will be working overtime to make up for the lack of cholestorol he’s eating. All my vegan friends are the moodiest friends. Their “energy” is a sugar dependency. “They need their fix” so to speak. We need fat for our Omega acids, especially those of us who work out. If this gentlemen works out I’m sad to say that he’s only burning musle mass and not fat if he limits himself to a low fat vegan diet.
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The French have their bread, but the main staple in their cuisine is butter, eggs, and cream. They also eat many different kinds of meat like beef, chicken, duck and fish. French food is very high in fat, yet the French have maintained to keep obesity at a very minimal rate. The only reason why obesity has recently risen in countries like France and the U.K is because they are beginning to eat the way Americans do (Mc’donalds, sweets, soda , etc.) But the French have lived for centuries on this type of diet.
First of all Pritkin and Ornish are MULTI FACTORIAL approaches.
Excercise stress reduction, meditation etc
NOTHING has ever been attributed to low fat.
Secondly the randomized clinical trials to date show that saturated fat does NOT increase CHD mortality or incidence at all
There are exactly 18 randomized clinical dietary intervention trials to date The most recent one destroying the cholesterol MYTH is The Women’s Health Initiative 2006
There is ZERO basis around the low saturate dfat movement.
It was started by a severely misguided fanatical nut named Ancel Keys . Keys DELIBERATELY OMITTED data that contradicted his false ideas. His study is FRAUD , DECEPTION and is TAINTED.
Upon further investigation it STILL does NOT support the Cholesterol Theory as CHD rates VARIED 2-6 FOLD WITHIN, WITHIN nations