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| As hoards of low-carb proponents invade the | | | | The result? Micromanaging carbs was no more |
| nutritional landscape, the increasingly tired low-fat guard | | | | effective than counting up points or fats or anything |
| seems to be giving way before their steady march | | | | else. Thus, the investigators came up empty handed |
| and drumbeat. | | | | — the carb content of the food was irrelevant |
| This invasion is a preemptive strike to find and remove | | | | to weight loss. |
| the stockpiled food molecules that could be used to | | | | Without definitive proof that carbs pose a threat, and |
| attack your health and explode your weight. Low-carb | | | | with recent evidence showing their irrelevance to |
| campaign hawks insist they really are out there, ready | | | | weight loss itself, carbs have become the dietary |
| to be launched against us at any moment. We know | | | | "weapons of mass distraction". The resulting campaign |
| where they are — stockpiled in bread, rice, and | | | | to win the hearts and minds of the people, by stoking |
| potatoes. | | | | fears of these molecules, distracts us from the more |
| International food observers are investigating the | | | | immediate menace -- domestic Biggie Sized habits of |
| suspicious links between the axis-of-evil molecules and | | | | personal overconsumption. |
| the thin, healthy people of the world. The French, for | | | | Dietary WMD not only divert us from more pressing |
| example, have flagrantly thumbed their noses at U.S. | | | | problems at home, but many fear that pre-emptive |
| efforts once again by eating white bread baguettes | | | | invasions of this region of the nutritional world could |
| twice per day, every day. Even worse, they | | | | lead to a quagmire of weight and health problems. |
| steadfastly deny any relationship between daily carbs | | | | Already the neo-Atkins’ intelligencia have rolled |
| and weight or health problems. The Communist | | | | back fruit and vegetable consumption because of carb |
| Chinese, ever a nettle for Western efforts, eat their | | | | levels that — we now find out — were |
| high-carb rice every day, in blatant disregard of U.S. | | | | never a problem to begin with. |
| dietary resolutions. | | | | It becomes clearer by the day that this nutritional war |
| Opinion at home is far from unanimous, as shown by | | | | was founded upon dubious premises with no plan to |
| scientists in a recent Tufts University study directly | | | | win the long-term weight management peace. Will we |
| comparing the effectiveness of low-carb, low-fat, | | | | have the courage to admit our past |
| Weight Watchers, and Zone approaches. The question | | | | misunderestimates? Or will we "stay the course"? |
| was simple. If done correctly, which theory actually | | | | Only time, and our waistlines, will tell. |