Turn of the Tide?
Dr. Eades of Protein Power fame asks if the tide is turning on acceptance of the health benefits of low-carb dieting by the medical establishment:
Imagine my surprise today when I got my emailed weekly version of Medscape Internal Medicine and found not just a lukewarm recommendation for the low-carb diet, but an enthusiastic one.
Medscape is a subscription service available only to physicians and is as mainstream as it gets. The lead article in this weeks issue is not really an article, but a video lecture. One Dr. Sandra Fryhofer lectures the mainstream docs subscribing to Medscape on what the above study shows. She points out the weaknesses of the low-fat diet and is positively enthusiastic about the low-carb diet.
… the video is a real endorsement for the low-carb diet. And – and I still can’t believe this – it’s being beamed out to mainstream physicians everywhere.
Eades even managed to get it into YouTube:
Only problem: where she says, “don’t forget exercise… in the end, weight gain or loss is all about energy balance. The more weight you burn, the more you’re likely to lose.” Nonsense! Didn’t she read my article!?
In related news, spinline.net: The Blog health correspondent Buttercup reports that Oprah Winfrey recently had some kind of “cancer expert” on her show who advocated low-fat diets to cut breast cancer risk (sigh). Oprah pressed, “and not low-carb diets, right?” “No,” the “cancer expert” emphasized. With that, millions of daytime TV-watching, Oprah-worshipping ladies worldwide immediately vowed to stop low-carbing, thus dramatically increasing their risk for fatal disease. THEIR BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS, OPRAH!!!
UPDATE: for more on low-carb and breast cancer see this post at Animal Pharm.
