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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / September 2004screw atkins... I want my whole wheat
Why is whole wheat pasta so hard to get? It's like you have to go to some special store to get it (healthfood store). At most your choices are spaghetti, and maybe macaroni (I want linguini or ziti, darn it). And why are there so few breads that are high in fiber? The minute I find a nice bread with extra-fiber, the damn store stops carrying it. The Atkins diet attacks carbohydrates baselessly. They present a strawman, that Americans have been following the "high carb" diet for years (they haven't... the American diet actually has more fat and calories in it than the diet people ate 100 years ago). "magnulus" <magnulus@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:sWp%c.26596$Np2.7841@bignews4. The Atkins diet attacks carbohydrates baselessly. They present a > strawman, that Americans have been following the "high carb" diet for years Does Atkins really say this? Perhaps you'd be kind enough to give me the *page number*...? M. > "magnulus" <magnulus@bellsouth.net> wrote in message > news:sWp%c.26596$Np2.7841@bignews4. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Does Atkins really say this? Perhaps you'd be kind enough to give me the > *page number*...? Sure does... maybe not those words, or maybe just his proponents. Somewhere in there he denigrates high-carb based diets on the basis that most Americans suppossedly tried high-carb, low-fat diets, and failed. In reality, Americans never tried low-fat diets, as Americans are now eating more fat than they were 100 years ago. They are eating about a couple hundred calories more per day than they were in the 60's and 70's. Perhaps there is some merit to the idea that high-carb foods are not autamically a ticket to weight loss. But that's a far cry from saying that carbs make you fat, that bread is evil, and that bacon wrapped cheese and pork rinds are "health food". >> "magnulus" <magnulus@bellsouth.net> wrote in message >> news:sWp%c.26596$Np2.7841@bignews4. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > that carbs make you fat, that bread is evil, and that bacon wrapped cheese > and pork rinds are "health food". Are you answering your own posts? gtoomey > Why is whole wheat pasta so hard to get? It's like you have to go to some > special store to get it (healthfood store). At most your choices are [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > (they haven't... the American diet actually has more fat and calories in it > than the diet people ate 100 years ago). I think it depends on where you live. When I lived in NY, it was hard to find whole wheat pasta, except as you say, a couple of kinds. Good, high fiber bread was also hard to find. Now I've moved to WA and I can find pretty much anything I want here, and in the regular grocery stores too! |
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