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Benjamin Weiner
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Okay, forget Lafferty's obsession with LANCE.
Americans' obsession with the Atkins diet has gone overboard
to the point where even people who don't need to diet are
avoiding carbohydrates as if they were cholesterol or PCBs
or something. Here's an article from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/health/19CARB.html
Low-Carb Boom Isn't Just for Dieters Anymore
Marc and Connie Foreman are not on the Atkins, South Beach, Zone, Lindora or any other low-
carbohydrate diet.
Yet here they were, waiting for a table at T.G.I. Friday's, a restaurant they have only driven
past for 25 years, because
Mr. Foreman had seen a commercial earlier in the day advertising one of its Atkins-approved menu
items, a New York strip steak with blue cheese (broccoli, no fries).
"I won't cut out carbs completely," said Ms. Foreman, a teacher, "but when you think about your
diet the bread, the potatoes, the pasta it makes sense to cut out that stuff."
Low-carb mania has spread beyond the millions of low-carb dieters. Food industry analysts say a
far greater number of people are now "carb aware," even carb-phobic, cutting out those foods not
as a way to lose weight, but because of a general sense that they are unhealthy. ...
The article goes on with more in this vein. (More arteriosclerosis in this vein?) If this trend
continues, we'll have a whole new generation of Fattie Masters to look forward to. Maybe it's a plot
to keep Social Security solvent by insuring all the dumbasses kick off early from heart disease.
Americans' obsession with the Atkins diet has gone overboard
to the point where even people who don't need to diet are
avoiding carbohydrates as if they were cholesterol or PCBs
or something. Here's an article from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/health/19CARB.html
Low-Carb Boom Isn't Just for Dieters Anymore
Marc and Connie Foreman are not on the Atkins, South Beach, Zone, Lindora or any other low-
carbohydrate diet.
Yet here they were, waiting for a table at T.G.I. Friday's, a restaurant they have only driven
past for 25 years, because
Mr. Foreman had seen a commercial earlier in the day advertising one of its Atkins-approved menu
items, a New York strip steak with blue cheese (broccoli, no fries).
"I won't cut out carbs completely," said Ms. Foreman, a teacher, "but when you think about your
diet the bread, the potatoes, the pasta it makes sense to cut out that stuff."
Low-carb mania has spread beyond the millions of low-carb dieters. Food industry analysts say a
far greater number of people are now "carb aware," even carb-phobic, cutting out those foods not
as a way to lose weight, but because of a general sense that they are unhealthy. ...
The article goes on with more in this vein. (More arteriosclerosis in this vein?) If this trend
continues, we'll have a whole new generation of Fattie Masters to look forward to. Maybe it's a plot
to keep Social Security solvent by insuring all the dumbasses kick off early from heart disease.