On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 14:34:13 -0400, William Schnell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>A long screed, but worth reading.
>
>http://www.cat007.com/insulin.htm

One of the discouraging aspects of modern science, is that anyone who is doing
a significant amount of work (such as Dr. Rosedale), is too busy to really keep
up with what their peers are doing.    From amongst Rosedale, Eades, Sears,
Cordain, and Enig, I'm sure that none have read more than 10-20% of what the
other four have written.   I get this impression both from their
misrepresentation of the viewpoints of the others, and also from the way they
make minor assumptions in their books that conflict directly with well
supported major premises in the books of the others.

For example in the above link, Rosedale states:

" Zone was a good diet compared to the American diet it was unusual. ...
Initially the author spoke about how it made no difference if you got your
carbohydrate from candy or vegetables. ... What he is doing now is changing his
recipes so that the 40% carbohydrates are coming primarily from vegetables, and
the carbohydrates are going way down because he knows that if he doesn't it's
not as good a diet. "

These statements are entirely false.  The very first Zone book advocated that
carbohydrates should come primarily from vegetables, and included a Glycemic
Index table.

As a matter of fact, the more recent book "The Age-Free Zone" (formerly "The
Anti-Aging Zone") examines in depth the aging factors discussed by Rosedale,
plus covers many other factors not mentioned by Rosedale, most notably the
hormonal system.


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Cheers,

Ken
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