Steve Bayt
(Parma/Brook Park, Ohio)

The last year or so of low carb marketing shows how easy it is to
brainwash
the American public into believing anything.

The Atkins/ Low Carb approach is the worst diet ever and has serious
health risks. Carbohydrates are necessary for basic functions of life.
And the idea of burning off fat without carbs is false. For someone
would have to run a hundred miles a day just to get to burning off the
bad fat-saturated fat.

There is an endless number of nutrients that are stored in
non-saturated fats which a low carb diet creates a deficiency. Carbs
allow you to excercise or even exist without depleting the body of
nutrients stored in unsaturated fats.

The Atkins diet includes food that is dangerously high in saturated
fats, which do not store any nutrients and are virtually impossible to
eliminate from the body without bariatric surgery.

Sources of carbs also contain many vitamins and minerals which aren't
present in most Atkins food. IN fact, there is so little nutritional
value in Atkins approved foods, that they have had to create a super
expensive supplement- trying to make even more money. The suppplements
contain ingredients more dangerous than Ephedera-or anything that
exist in the psyhcologically disturbed paranoia of Senator Durbin and
SB 722.

The fact is that complex carbs provide the energy not just for
athletics, but for basic living-without adding cholesterol nor
saturated fat to clog arteries.

And too much protein eats away at stomach lining. For protein is Amino
Acids.
There are so many health problems with Atkins, the FDA and FTC should
ban such marketing as a matter of public safety. Just like the San
Francisco Department of Health closed Bath houses in 1983 trying to
prevent AIDS.

Atkins also dehydrates the body,which is where the weight loss comes
from. Excess urination (the only way protein is eliminated from the
body) flushes out needed minerals along with fat soluble vitamins like
Vitamin E, Vitamin A.

Too much protein and not enough carbs can cause so many health
problems entire encyclopedias could be wrote on the subject. JUst one
is extreme nuerological damage, another is ulcers and kidney stones
along with conspitation.

Recently there have been marketed Carb Smart vitamins-which are really
just normal vitamins. Atkins is so bad a few pills a day can't rectify
all the damage it causes. Cardiac arrest with Atkins is inevitable.

The two things that have to be eliminated in America is Atkins/Low
Carb mentality and Senate Bill 722 which will eliminate nutritional
supplements. For if both continue and progress 2004 will go down as
the year America virtually killed itself with a political and
marketing brainwashing.

THere is nothing wrong with Carbs. People should consume carbs, then
use them to get excercise which would lower cholesterol, boost
imnmunity, enhance muscle tone, etc.

Complex carbohydrates provide numerous surreal benefits. Atkins is
just an epidemic that has lied innocently dormant for decades.

Companies which are claiming to be Atkins friendly, are really
claiming to be "Death Friendly". The claim "Atkins friedly" is bad and
those products should remain on store shelves until thrown out.

The media should never have allowed any type of advertising for
Atkins, nor allowed any type of mass communication of a lifestyle
which is worse than cigarette smoking.

Atkins Friendly really means Atkins Deadly.