So how on earth does he come up with a title for his article that says the atkins diet doesn't work?
People lost weight and didn't have their cholestorol go up. Sounds like it works to me.
Dave Antonacci
Unbalanced
The excoriation of the "Atkin's" diet in Mr. Fumento's article revealed the sorry extent of the media's understanding of this subject and was unbalanced besides.
He attributes all the blood fat results of the low-carb diet simply to weight loss. Yet he fails to account for the high-carb diet's inability to produce similar results. In fact, when a high-carb diet is successful in reducing weight, it often fails to produce blood fat result comparable to the low-carb diet.
Note my use of "low-carb" and "high-carb" as diet specifiers. These are the relevant parameters, not fat. Fat does serve to satiate our appetites(a benefit denied the dieting serial snackers of fat-free high-carb snacks), but the carbs are the key to the insulin cycle, hyperinsulemia related blood fat build up and diabetes.
I would recommend Mr. Fumento read "Protein Power" by the Drs. Eades and avoid media whores like Dr. Atkins.
Michael Klapp
Re: Rebellion Against the Drug Czar (12/3)
Patients of the world, unite
It was a good way to start out the day, reading Brian Doherty's article, Rebellion Against the Drug Czar. John Walters offends my wife every time he states that medical marijuana is a hoax and patients are being used as part of that hoax. Cheryl has spent the last ten years trying to help people see that marijuana is good medicine for some of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Cheryl is in the end stages of MS and doesn't appear to have much time left. She is having more and more pain and spasticity that is not adequately controlled by her legal prescriptions. Still Czar Walters calls her a hoax for saying marijuana is her most effective medicine.
Now it seems that Mr. Walters has been using his literal bully pulpit to tell about the few big money supporters of marijuana law reform and end up saying "I'm here, where are you?" He says that like he is available for public discussion of this subject and they are not. This brings to mind something that could be done to expose his baseless rhetoric.
Where ever he is speaking there are undoubtedly medical marijuana patients in that area that would be willing to confront him. The problem is sick people often have a hard time getting anywhere without help. The sicker they are the harder it is to go anywhere without assistance but conversely the easier it is to be heard and believed.
Don't wait for a medical marijuana patient to ask for help. Take the initiative to offer help if you know someone that is a patient that would like to see if Czar Johnny could call him (or her) a hoax to their face.
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