Although I agree to some degree with your suppor tof the low carb eating philosophy, you really need to do your research before writing an article if you are to be a respected journalist. I appreciate and applaud your determination, but your summation of the Eat Well Be Well scenario could not be furthe roff base. Eat Well Be Well transformed from a suffering low carb company with plummeting sales and recovered to profitability as Eat Well be Well. It was an internal ownership deal that caused the demise, and had nothing to do with success. Take it from me, I know.

I do think we obtain valuable minerals, vitamins, etc. from veggies, and they do provide us with options to include more variety in our diet, both good things that make it easier to stick with this WOE for the long term.

However, we can’t ignore the examples of both our evolutionary ancestors, and the modern-day indigenous like the Inuit. Their carb consumption was/is pretty close to zero, simply because plant products were not readily available to them most of the year.

There’s no indication that they suffered any adverse effects from their diet, and that’s sufficient for me to think that we would not either.

I don’t think we ought to be coercing anyone into not eating veggies - as long as we keep them to the non-starchy options, they certainly don’t hurt, and could quite likely help.

At the same time, if someone does choose to just eat animal products, I don’t think we need to jump on the already full bandwagon of people telling them that their diet is unhealthy.

It isn’t. It’s certainly way healthier than the SAD. It may possibly be less healthy than a low-carb diet that does include plant products, but that gets more and more questionable every day as we deplete soil nutrients and increase use of chemicals and other pollutants.

I think the low-carb lifestyle is the healthiest one out there, but I think we need to accept all variations of it, from the carnivores to the atkins/PP/SBers to the Carb addicts to the kimkins people.

As Jimmy keeps saying, there’s no universal right answer to the diet question. We each have to find the plan that works best for us. With that comes the need to accept that other people might have a different plan that works even better for them than ours would. Not always easy to do, but I definitely think it’s important to try.

If the mass media would see low-carb as a progressive movement of liberation against a stifling and corrupt nutritional beuracracy, they would champion it until they changed the public perception to its roots, just as they have done with civil rights, car safety, nuclear safety or anti-tobacco. Perhaps we need to sell the “threat” of the status quo more and show how the current nutritional advice is precisely what is killing us. But we don’t want to alarm the public into making even more misguided government-mandated decisions. Perhaps we should have patience and let the steady drip of research split the boulder slowly and surely. The LC research is truly unassailable, and so cannot fail to ultimately drive a wedge through the great murky mass of soft science on which all current nutrition advice is based.