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Posted by Shade on Sat, 02/14/2004 - 10:46am.
Before Dr. Atkins, someone figured out that calories (energy in) equaled fat when taken in excess. But nobody wants to eat LESS, do they?
So they invented the fiber diet. You eat a lot of stuff, but the fiber goes right through you without being digested. You might as well be eating less, but you don't have to use so much self control. Sadly for this diet, nobody really likes fiber. I mean, how much sawdust and rabbit food can you put up with? So the fiber diet went away.

Then Dr. Atkins realized that the calories contained in meat and fats take longer for our bodies to break down than do the carbohydrates. In fact, they often make it all the way out of our bodies without being absorbed. So, if we make carbs the "bad" things, but tell people to eat meat, they will lose weight, because their total absorbed calories will decrease.

I'd rather just eat a balanced diet that go through all that mumbo jumbo. YMMV
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