Steve Randy Shi
STEVE BAYT (Parma/Brook Park, Ohio)
So, this article's research and analysis took much
longer than the objective of 48 hours. For now that
millions of Americans have been brainwashed by the
Atkins Low Carb Death Sentence, it's only a matter of
a year or so until the annual 992,000 average
American deaths makes AIDS look like a warm-up act to
ARDS-Atkins Related Death Syndrome.
Heart disease is virtually entirely by eating too
much fat and cholesterol. Other causes comprise a
very small percent. So people can do the math as to
how many deaths have been attributed to Atkins and
related diets. As they can do the math for how the
death toll will increase due to Atkins' increased
advertising.
The science is unquestioned. Atkins in 35 years has
been condemned and virtually every health and
nutrition entity has warned the media about
accepting advertising even implying a Low Carb or
Atkins life style is not a death sentence.
In April 2004 the federal bureau in charge of Beer
and Wine licenses made it illegal for beer, wines
or any alcoholic beverage to even imply that being
low carb is healthy. The FDA is presently trying to
make mandatory on all Low Carb products, some sort
of disclaimer about Atkins' fatal consequences and
the necessity of consuming at least 100 mgs of
complex carbohydrates a day.
It's rathere symbolic that marketers have recently
made up a term "Carbphoia" as was done with
"AIDSphobia". For AIDS And Atkins pretty much do the
same thing both biologically. And Atkins is
presenting the same false immpression that was done
with homophobia.
Atkins and Low Carb has more fatal
consequences than cigarette smoking, according
to thousands of health entities not
financially connected to Atkins. The marketing
for Atkins is the same type as with smoking.
For nearly a half-century cigarette smoking
portrayed as being cool-Joe Camel and The
Marlboro Man started in the early 1950's.
In 1965, a year after the surgeon general's first
report on smoking, the first law was passed to
have all cigarette ads and packages have health
warnings. Through the years, the warnings and not
allowed advertising methods have increased. All
radio and non-cable TV stations can't even air
commercials for cigarettes according to FCC
regulations.
Yet, millions of people continue to smoke and
die.
Press Releases and requests to media outlets
from thousands of health entities to not run
Atkins or Low Carb Ads have produced, well,,, a
media that will run anything. Just like TV,
radio, magazines and radio stations glorified
smoking, they are now glorifying the low carb
lifestyle (or more appropriately called low carb
death style).
The only thing that can be done in the short
term is to hope that once Atkins sufferers get
back to a healthy lifestyle before there are
so many people having heart attacks that
America doesn't have enough doctors and
hospitals to deal with them. Of course, 35% of
people who suffer heart attacks, due almost
entirely by too much fat and too few carbs to
sustain heart functions, die before even
arriving at the hospital.
Someone who starts on the Atkins Death Sentence
today has about 2-4 years before being near a
heart attack. Hopefully, those 65% who make it
to coronary care units will be told by doctors
to stop with Atkins.
Unfortunately, lawsuits are unlikely to prevail
against Atkins due to a legal concept called
"Assumption of Risk" which has for decades
protected cigarette companies from having to pay
anything. When the FDA eventually decides on a
warning for Atkins similar to the 1994 DSHEA with
nutritional supplements, I hope it reads something
like." EVERY HEALTH AUTHORITY CONDOMNS ATKINS.
CONTINUED LOW CARB HIGH FAT AND PROTEIN DIET WILL
RESULT IN MANY POTENTIAL FATAL CONSEQUENCES."
The first warning for cigarettes was fairly
lame: "Smoking may be hazardous to your health."
Hopefully, with Atkins the FDA won't play around
with such lame disclaimers and get straight to
the sort of disclaimer mandated in 1978.
Similar to how America learned about
terrorism by 911, Americans (if this Atkins
brainwashing continues) will have to ask
whether the first amendment worth millions of
Americans suffering heart attacks, kidney
disease, stroke, brain damage and then death.
For the first amendment is what protects the
media from running Atkins adverting. 911
taught us to act proactively to potential
threats. Yet, library shelves are filled with
potential health threats, collecting cobwebs,
as was Atkins a year ago.
The media has a choice; each newspaper, TV
station etc. can get millions of dollars in
ad revenue or act responsibly. Tragically,
the media's value is to make money instead
of helping save lives.
If the present advertising trend continues,
similar to cigarette smoking, Atkins ads by
late 2005 will be replaced with Public
Service Announcements about how "those tens
of millions who have become coronary ticking
time bombs can defuse themselves and get
back to a healthy lifestyle."
Of course it wasn't until 1990 until the
first PSA for using condoms was run on a
non-cable network (Fox) which at the time
was a very struggling network. By the time
Fox ran the first Condom PSA, 200,000
Americans had already died.
There was a newspaper chain (with tobacco
financial interests) THE MEMPHIS PUBLISING
COMPANY that wouldn't run cigarette ads
with the surgeon general warning in the
early 1970's. The Tennessee and US
Attorney General had to virtually take
over the newsroom of many Memphis
Publishing Company publications to
guarantee ads ran with the warning. (Leech
vs. Memphis Publishing Company)
Presently, there is a branch of the Federal
Trade Commission called the National
Advertising Review Board that reviews
deceptive ads and if the advertiser is
"found guilty" the advertiser is forced to
place corrective advertising.
Based on the pathetic irresponsibility of
the media promoting the Atkins Death
Sentence, which could lead to millions of
ARDS. Perhaps the best thing to do would be
to fine the media for running the
advertising along with the advertiser.
The fine to the medium (that is a singular
noun form of media referring to a single
member of the media) would be twice the
amount that was billed to the advertiser.
It is clear that the media that have barely
mentioned Senate Bill 722 and HR. 3377,
which would effectively ban supplements
while promoting Atkins Low Carb, does not
deserve the First Amendment. Through
American history a FREE PRESS has had
generally more tragedy than benefit-
Pentagon Papers etc.
Similar to cigarette smoking, the Atkins
death sentence takes at least 2 years to
prevail. And unlike AIDS there is a cure.
Not one single person who started on the
Atkins Low Carb death style, say about 6
months ago when the advertising rush
started has suffered any permanent health
risk and can go back to a low fat, low
cholesterol, high nutrient dense diet
without burdening their loved ones with
hospitalization and funerals.
If anything comes of this Atkins epidemic is
that maybe the first amendment might finally
be amended. For its hard to tell which is
worse. That Americans can be brainwashed by
advertising. Or that the media ignores lives
for money.
Atkins isn't a fad, its potential epidemic.
You can get
can't get ARDS with just one month or even a year of Atkins
So, there is hope…..
Love Means Never Having To Say, You're Sorry….
STEVE BAYT
It's unkown when my next Atkins bashing article will be
done. Maybe not until July 11th.
So, this article's research and analysis took much
longer than the objective of 48 hours. For now that
millions of Americans have been brainwashed by the
Atkins Low Carb Death Sentence, it's only a matter of
a year or so until the annual 992,000 average
American deaths makes AIDS look like a warm-up act to
ARDS-Atkins Related Death Syndrome.
Heart disease is virtually entirely by eating too
much fat and cholesterol. Other causes comprise a
very small percent. So people can do the math as to
how many deaths have been attributed to Atkins and
related diets. As they can do the math for how the
death toll will increase due to Atkins' increased
advertising.
The science is unquestioned. Atkins in 35 years has
been condemned and virtually every health and
nutrition entity has warned the media about
accepting advertising even implying a Low Carb or
Atkins life style is not a death sentence.
In April 2004 the federal bureau in charge of Beer
and Wine licenses made it illegal for beer, wines
or any alcoholic beverage to even imply that being
low carb is healthy. The FDA is presently trying to
make mandatory on all Low Carb products, some sort
of disclaimer about Atkins' fatal consequences and
the necessity of consuming at least 100 mgs of
complex carbohydrates a day.
It's rathere symbolic that marketers have recently
made up a term "Carbphoia" as was done with
"AIDSphobia". For AIDS And Atkins pretty much do the
same thing both biologically. And Atkins is
presenting the same false immpression that was done
with homophobia.
Atkins and Low Carb has more fatal
consequences than cigarette smoking, according
to thousands of health entities not
financially connected to Atkins. The marketing
for Atkins is the same type as with smoking.
For nearly a half-century cigarette smoking
portrayed as being cool-Joe Camel and The
Marlboro Man started in the early 1950's.
In 1965, a year after the surgeon general's first
report on smoking, the first law was passed to
have all cigarette ads and packages have health
warnings. Through the years, the warnings and not
allowed advertising methods have increased. All
radio and non-cable TV stations can't even air
commercials for cigarettes according to FCC
regulations.
Yet, millions of people continue to smoke and
die.
Press Releases and requests to media outlets
from thousands of health entities to not run
Atkins or Low Carb Ads have produced, well,,, a
media that will run anything. Just like TV,
radio, magazines and radio stations glorified
smoking, they are now glorifying the low carb
lifestyle (or more appropriately called low carb
death style).
The only thing that can be done in the short
term is to hope that once Atkins sufferers get
back to a healthy lifestyle before there are
so many people having heart attacks that
America doesn't have enough doctors and
hospitals to deal with them. Of course, 35% of
people who suffer heart attacks, due almost
entirely by too much fat and too few carbs to
sustain heart functions, die before even
arriving at the hospital.
Someone who starts on the Atkins Death Sentence
today has about 2-4 years before being near a
heart attack. Hopefully, those 65% who make it
to coronary care units will be told by doctors
to stop with Atkins.
Unfortunately, lawsuits are unlikely to prevail
against Atkins due to a legal concept called
"Assumption of Risk" which has for decades
protected cigarette companies from having to pay
anything. When the FDA eventually decides on a
warning for Atkins similar to the 1994 DSHEA with
nutritional supplements, I hope it reads something
like." EVERY HEALTH AUTHORITY CONDOMNS ATKINS.
CONTINUED LOW CARB HIGH FAT AND PROTEIN DIET WILL
RESULT IN MANY POTENTIAL FATAL CONSEQUENCES."
The first warning for cigarettes was fairly
lame: "Smoking may be hazardous to your health."
Hopefully, with Atkins the FDA won't play around
with such lame disclaimers and get straight to
the sort of disclaimer mandated in 1978.
Similar to how America learned about
terrorism by 911, Americans (if this Atkins
brainwashing continues) will have to ask
whether the first amendment worth millions of
Americans suffering heart attacks, kidney
disease, stroke, brain damage and then death.
For the first amendment is what protects the
media from running Atkins adverting. 911
taught us to act proactively to potential
threats. Yet, library shelves are filled with
potential health threats, collecting cobwebs,
as was Atkins a year ago.
The media has a choice; each newspaper, TV
station etc. can get millions of dollars in
ad revenue or act responsibly. Tragically,
the media's value is to make money instead
of helping save lives.
If the present advertising trend continues,
similar to cigarette smoking, Atkins ads by
late 2005 will be replaced with Public
Service Announcements about how "those tens
of millions who have become coronary ticking
time bombs can defuse themselves and get
back to a healthy lifestyle."
Of course it wasn't until 1990 until the
first PSA for using condoms was run on a
non-cable network (Fox) which at the time
was a very struggling network. By the time
Fox ran the first Condom PSA, 200,000
Americans had already died.
There was a newspaper chain (with tobacco
financial interests) THE MEMPHIS PUBLISING
COMPANY that wouldn't run cigarette ads
with the surgeon general warning in the
early 1970's. The Tennessee and US
Attorney General had to virtually take
over the newsroom of many Memphis
Publishing Company publications to
guarantee ads ran with the warning. (Leech
vs. Memphis Publishing Company)
Presently, there is a branch of the Federal
Trade Commission called the National
Advertising Review Board that reviews
deceptive ads and if the advertiser is
"found guilty" the advertiser is forced to
place corrective advertising.
Based on the pathetic irresponsibility of
the media promoting the Atkins Death
Sentence, which could lead to millions of
ARDS. Perhaps the best thing to do would be
to fine the media for running the
advertising along with the advertiser.
The fine to the medium (that is a singular
noun form of media referring to a single
member of the media) would be twice the
amount that was billed to the advertiser.
It is clear that the media that have barely
mentioned Senate Bill 722 and HR. 3377,
which would effectively ban supplements
while promoting Atkins Low Carb, does not
deserve the First Amendment. Through
American history a FREE PRESS has had
generally more tragedy than benefit-
Pentagon Papers etc.
Similar to cigarette smoking, the Atkins
death sentence takes at least 2 years to
prevail. And unlike AIDS there is a cure.
Not one single person who started on the
Atkins Low Carb death style, say about 6
months ago when the advertising rush
started has suffered any permanent health
risk and can go back to a low fat, low
cholesterol, high nutrient dense diet
without burdening their loved ones with
hospitalization and funerals.
If anything comes of this Atkins epidemic is
that maybe the first amendment might finally
be amended. For its hard to tell which is
worse. That Americans can be brainwashed by
advertising. Or that the media ignores lives
for money.
Atkins isn't a fad, its potential epidemic.
You can get
can't get ARDS with just one month or even a year of Atkins
So, there is hope…..
Love Means Never Having To Say, You're Sorry….
STEVE BAYT
It's unkown when my next Atkins bashing article will be
done. Maybe not until July 11th.
