Aw, c'mon, Dori - tell us how you REALLY feel! ;)

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on 1/2/04 3:48 PM, Dori Zook at [log in to unmask] wrote:

>> The male, in his late fifties/early sixties, is delighted with his results:
>> a loss of 24 pounds, but get this - triglycerides down from 650 to 165, and
>> total cholesterol down from 299 to 237. Great publicity for low carb at
>> least!
>
> IloveitIloveitIloveit!  Eat that, traditional "nutrition" supporters.
>
> Which brings me to two stories I've seen here in Denver, both today.  The
> first was on a new store, Viva Low Carb (if memory serves) that sells only
> low-carb products.  Nice, but all they showed in the live shot were
> Frankenfoods, i.e. one-carb-gram taco shells.  Made of what, I'm not sure
> even WANT to know.  Although I did like the thought of a lower carb
> spaghetti sauce.  That and I wonder if they sell a kiwi extract sweetener I
> can no longer find on the shelf.  Ironicially, when asked where her shop
> was, the woman said, "At Pierce and Bowles, next to the Quizno's." If you
> don't have a Quizno's, they make subs.
>
> Ennhoo, I later saw an in-studio live shot with someone who rubbed me the
> wrong way before she even opened her pie hole.  She was a registered
> dietitian so I knew what was coming.  The topic was popular foods in the new
> year.  She said people are more interested in less "fake food" i.e. trans
> fats, etc.  Okay, fine.  But one of the products she had?  A carb-loaded
> breakfast cereal that contained (bleah) soy.  The promo mentioned EVERY diet
> trend but low-carb, something else I noticed.  Every other frickin' food
> story I've seen lately has been on low-carb diets, including a segment on
> the CBS Evening News this week that said bread sales have gone down 13%
> thanks to low-carb diets.  Thirteen percent!  I've heard about low bread
> sales several times lately.  The media's all over it like butter on a bagel.
>
> Well, guess what Bambi Sold-Out RD said when asked by the anchor about
> low-carb foods.  She smiled but you could tell was on the verge of rolling
> her eyes and said (get this!) that interest in low carb foods is high now,
> but the trend will slow down because, "people will realize that they BEED
> carbs for their brains."
>
> This message is already too long, but (insert swear words here), when will
> these morons wrapped in idiots learn that we (low-carb or Paleo dieters) ARE
> eating carbs?!  They seem to think the only carbs out there are grains.  How
> they classify healthy vegetables, I have no idea.  But they seem to think
> they don't have any carbs at all and, thus, we're carb-free.  Well, bite my
> veggie-snarfing ass!  We all eat FAR more leafy-greens than Joe Average.
> Thus, we're getting carbs, just less than stupid dietitians think we should
> and none of the bad ones.  Duh!
>
> Oh.  The products she touted were both (and she bragged about it)
> recommended by the American Heart Association.  Don't even get me started on
> that.
>
> Okay, I'm done now.  BTW, I know we have at least one dietitian on this
> list, but she's seen the light.  Sorry, but I went to a national dietitian
> conference a few years back, and the whole affair left my SKIN crawling.
>
> Dori Zook
> Denver, CO
>
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