Comments on: Low Carb vs. The Pod People

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:50:34 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. I just had tea with a lovely older (mid 70′s) lady friend of mine and while I watched her eat a white bagel with jelly while she told me about her dizzy spells and her husband’s various health problems, I wanted to rip that bagel out of her hand and throw it across the room.

When I read about rising health care costs and think about aging baby boomers, I see doom and gloom on the horizon. I can only hope that GC,BC will ignite a large enough spark to make a difference. It did for me and I foist it on people as much as I can get away with.

By: The Planner

The Planner — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:20:14 +0000

You are definitely not alone. We’re just very quiet about it now.

By: Megamas

Megamas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:03:17 +0000

Good advice, Dave, thanks. With every page I read in GC,BC I realize that this so much more about the complete health of the body than just how much one weighs. That’s why I say the smartest thing my wife and I ever did (beside quitting smoking) was starting low carb in 2003. Entering our 50′s at the time, I hope we were able to reverse some of the damage and not just stop it from occurring.

By: David Brown

David Brown — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:43:28 +0000

Your point is well taken. Complacency is a huge barrier when it comes to improving the nation’s health. But perhaps weight control isn’t the key issue here. After all, you know many slender people who consume the same diet that made you over weight and they don’t have a problem; well not yet anyway.

Fat or skinny, today’s food environment is conducive to chronic disease and vulnerability to infection. Regarding the latter, just look at the amount of immunization going on these days. Part of that is due to the fact that the public health service is enamored with the concept of vaccination as a means for controlling infectious disease. And part of the problem has to do aggressive business practice on the part of pharmaceutical companies. For more on this Google “Mary Tocco Why Vaccinations Aren’t Safe.

At any rate, don’t get discouraged. If you really want to help the people you know become healthier, talk about the quality of the food supply and chronic disease. That’s in Gary Taubes’ book also. Get their E-mail addresses and send them interesting articles about the food supply. Admittedly, there are some who will never be receptive. There’s nothing you can do about that. So concentrate on the ones that can be rescued.

Dave Brown
Nutrition Education Project