Atkins-bashers

[cjsmith]

WTF is up with Atkins-bashing? I'm not even on that diet and I've heard more snideness, put-downs, and just general meanness about it to last me the rest of my life. Some haven't even read what the diet is supposed to be, but the myths about it arouse their ire anyhow. Some raise the subject just so they can spew their bile about it. The internal pressure must be immense. One gal I met at a quilting group got so hot under the collar that I'm semi-seriously glad she wasn't armed. What the hell is the threat here, lady? Go ahead, eat your bread. Nobody's taking it away from you.

Obviously there's something I'm missing, because the way I look at it seems simplistic by comparison: if I don't like a diet I don't go on it.

Is it really more about fat-hatred? That might explain some of it, but not all of it. Is it that anything strongly contradicting previous wisdom must be suppressed? That probably doesn't explain all of it either.

If I leave comments enabled, I'm a fool, right? Yeah, I'm a fool. So I'll just delete any comments bashing any diet at all (see above remark about my lifetime quota being full).

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I guess I've been lucky -- no one has proselytized Atkins in front of me. I'm surrounded only by the anti- side.

Not to mention that at its root, the Atkins diet "works" because it pushes the body into a very unhealthy state.

If you mean ketosis, I disagree that that state is inherently unhealthy. It's simply the flip side of fat storage -- using stored energy. Not that I want to get into the scientific validity of Atkins as a whole. It's the way people react that really puzzles me.

I can certainly understand why you'd rail against most any diet. There are people out there who seem to have a fair amount of that "thin at any cost" mentality but who will get downright mean and nasty if someone says "low carb"... them I'm not sure I understand.