In 1864, William Banting published, at his own expense, a short booklet
on his experience in being obese and the long road to his successfully
losing his excess weight.

http://www.lowcarb.ca/atkins-diet-and-low-carb-plans/harvey-banting.html

In the booklet he explains how the medical people of the day completely
failed him until he found a Dr Harvey who suggested the diet that
finally produced results. It was definitively low-carb.

Here is the response to this successful dieting concept from the
European scientific and medical community:

The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of
British and Continental... edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles
Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC67529652&id=CY-7TmES2OwC&pg=RA2-PA339&lpg=
RA2-PA339&dq=corpulence&as_brr=1#PRA2-PA339,M1

Note that there is little or no acknowledgement of the value of a
dieting strategy that actually works and results in major improvements
in virtually all the patients health concerns. And rather than call for
further investigation and/or implementation of this new paradigm, they
simply try to explain the theoretically *possible* bad health effects.
On the one hand, they have what appears to me a miraculously successful
weight loss with accompanying health improvements, and on the other
hand they object to possible theoretical negative health effects that
may or may not happen.

The sheer arrogance and ignorance and lack of scientific objectivity is
only eclipsed by their pathetic lack of willingness to examine and
investigate a simple paradigm, that could alleviate much suffering,
simply because they don't have the intellectual and professional
capacity to admit that their accepted paradigm may be wrong. They
completely ignore the succes of the low carb diet, both in successfully
achieving the weight loss and radically improving the general health of
the patient.

Note the weight loss advice being given by the Allopaths. Eat less and
exercise more. Sounds familiar? And here we are 143 years later with a
scientifically confirmed 95%-plus failure rate for this method. We are
still trying to unsuccessfully lose weight in the same allopathic way
they were trying to unsuccessfully lose weight in 1864. With record
levels of obesity and obesity related disease. We have never been
fatter and sicker. And these allopathic medical people are still the
ones we look to for advise on obesity today.

TC