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]

And some of the bashers (I haven't seen you do this, btw) are just as preachy as those they're reacting to. Yay, what an improvement.

I saw a book once wherein some of the characters followed the latest diet craze: eat only flowers. I think it was a subtle joke about the omnivore -to- vegetarian -to- vegan -to- ? kind of path, but maybe it was more general, poking fun at diet crazes of all stripes.

[portia.livejournal.com]

BTW, I can't believe I wrote "flower" instead of "flour" in my previous comment. Duh!

And speaking of flowers... It's funny that you mention the flower-eating thing... sounds very familiar to me but I can't quite put my finger on it. Can you remember the name of the book?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No, I can't remember... the people were "floritarians", but I'm blanking on the entire rest of it, including the plot. Must have been quite a memorable book. :-)