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Monday 21 January 2013

Lowcarb is difficult to stick to, Don’t make me laugh !

Recently an article appeared in The Guardian Newspaper from GP Tom Smith. Now Tom is an educated man, but as I have come to learn, one must never confuse education with intelligence. Our Tom says “I would never go on a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet like Atkins, Dukan or Cambridge. Why? Because although you will probably lose weight, they may kill you. He rambled on finishing with “Eating is for enjoyment; these diets turn food into medication, and it's patently the wrong medicine – it is often lethal.”

Well,  say what you like about Tom, but he doesn’t beat about the bush, a lowcarb diet “is often lethal” So many times when you see this sort of bilge, the diet criticised is not lowcarb, the study he referred to was not a lowcarb diet, in fact the carbohydrate component was 40%. Now, if Tom believes a 40% carb diet is lowcarb, what does he consider a high carb diet to be ? 60% carb maybe 80% carb. Could Tom be the sort of Doctor that advises diabetics to base their meals on starchy carbohydrates, and the often accompanying large bag of meds ? The sort of diabetes advice that leads to the disastrous statistics we see from the NHS. Try harder Tom, in my opinion you’re the kind of Doctor that “is often lethal” to so many diabetics.

OK that’s a medical professionals point of view, what a about the layman, the diabetic who thinks a lowcarb diet, is a swift one way trip to the knackers yard. Well, they can go on all day telling us what’s wrong with lowcarb. Many admit to never trying lowcarb, many tell us it might be OK in the short term, but people cannot stick to it, and so many fall off the wagon. Many feel lowcarb is some sort of fad, dreamed up by a person that wants to flog some books. I have been told so many times, you have strong will power you can stick to, many can’t. So, let’s take a look at the sort of food I eat based on around 50 carbs per day. Do you know what I see, exactly the sort of food my grand parents and great grand parents ate. The sort of food that people ate, before giant international food companies, turned food into a product more akin to a petro-chem concoction, than a healthy plate of food. 

If you think the foods featured below takes iron will to consume, and could prove to be lethal, then you are more barmy than Tom. If you feel sticking with those carbs and covering them with a bag full of meds is the way forward, I respectfully suggest you seek urgent psychiatric counselling.

Eddie

The Guardian article here.

Food descriptions and recipes here.














10 comments:

Anonymous said...

“Eating is for enjoyment; these diets turn food into medication,...."
Well I agree I do enjoy a low carb lifestyle and it does help keep my blood sugars low, being a diabetic I prefer it that way
Jeff

Anonymous said...

With respect to a GP - I would call 40 grams of carb low carb not 40%.
I would suggest he could research details a little more.

Kate

Anonymous said...

So you know better than doctors now

Anonymous said...

"So you know better than doctors now"

A doctor who thinks 40% carbs constitutes a low carb diet obviously hasn't a clue what he's talking about.

Chris

Lowcarb team member said...

Thanks Chris, saved me the trouble.

Eddie

Anonymous said...

Once again shows how 40% carbs and 40 grams of carb get mixed up, extremely confusing to many who are just discovering the benefits of a lower carbohydrate diet.I think your web site is a big help to those just starting to discover how reducing your carb intake can help,especially the good new stories as well
Joe

tess said...

damn, i missed your christmas-season recipes! next year i'll definitely be making your pudding, but i won't wait that long for the trifle -- looks like a great Mardi Gras dish to me! :-)

(hmmm, i think i might try DRIED berries and see if they come out chewy like the traditional dried fruits do....)

Anonymous said...

Hi Tess, feel sure you will like the trifle recipe. Do you use recipes like this for 'Mardi Gras' sounds like a festival type day or celebration when folks come together.

Annie J

tess said...

hi, Annie! to me, Mardi Gras cries out for rich, decadent treats, and trifle is kinda the epitome of that. custard AND cake AND whipped cream AND jelly and other "pretties". :-)

Anonymous said...

Think this should have been posted here.
Have to confess it's the cream in this that makes it taste great,
Thanks Tess, all the best

Annie J