"Steve" <nospam@please.reply.to.group.thanks.com> wrote in message

I can't handle milk... I gave it up 5 yrs ago.  It is probably a good
thing... as I was addicted to cereal and milk and would eat HUGE jethro
bowls of it.  It was one of the things I used to binge on.

if you'd read the link you would have seen the research wasn't from
"atkins".

I think it's safe to say that at this point Atkins *does* work, at
least for many people.

I'm not following it for a mixture of reasons; a) I don't want to
alter my eating habits too much from what I can conveniently sustain
once at target weight, b) I'm losing fine (2lbs/week for now 3+
months) on my diet, c) I don't want to lose too fast, to avoid loose
skin, d) the science behind any harmful effects of long-term ketogenic
diets isn't in yet, and I don't want to play the guinea pig. And e)
I'm a lazy git and staying in ketosis or finding and keeping to the
CCLL or whatever is just too much accounting.

Having said that, I take all scientific criticisms of Atkins with a
grain of salt because: a) results trumps theory and b) the critics
have been proved wrong repeatedly for the past 30 years.

Yogurt is fermented with acidophilus.  That's a beneficial bacteria
that naturally grows in the intestines.  Non-fat, full-fat, or whatever
adding more beneficial bacteria should be a good idea.

Low carbing does work for most people.  No plan works for everyone and
sure enough low carbing doesn't work for everyone.  But it does work
for most.

Atkins designed a process that works.  So what that he never
understood why?  He was a practicing physician not a scientist.  The
guy that invented gunpowder didn't understand the science behind
that either, with an equal so what.  Did guns not work before the
discovery of analytical chemistry?  Of course they did!

There are some interesting consequences to his failure to understand
the underlying science.  If he'd remembered his undergrad biocchem,
he would have spent more time discussing the carb-to-fat ratio and
its effects.  It's part of why staying at 20 works so poorly for so
many.  If he'd read more about carb intake and thyroid T3 output,
he also would have pushed OWL more.  He never did learn why OWL
works better for more, and by the last decade of his life he'd
forgotten his early data and had started advocating staying on
Induction in the face of the underlying science.

I'm sure the guy who invented gunpowder got the explanation wrong.
That doesn't mean that guns failed to work before the invention of
analytical chemistry.

If you want to raise objections to Atkins, try something other than
irrelevant ad homein points.