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06/11/2004: "Atkins baloney"
Today at work, I spent the day researching recent articles about obesity, and let me just say that it reinforced that I'm glad I eat the way I do.
However, I read an interesting article about the Atkins diet that's swept up Americans like an epidemic. The author, a nutritionist, said that yes, the Atkins diet works. However, it doesn't work any better than any other diet, whether it's low-fat, low-calorie, etc, and it's not the smartest one to choose.
The analogy he used, which was very clever, is that you can choose to only eat 800 calories a day. And by doing that, you're losing weight because it's only 800 calories a day, which is a lot less than what you burn each day. Well, let's say you get all those 800 calories from hot fudge sundaes. So the diet's working, you're losing weight, all good, right? Not necessarily, since the hot fudge sundae isn't the best food to pick to fill those 800 calories. That's basically what the Atkins diet is doing by cutting out all the carbs and promoting high-fat foods.
Maybe I'm just bitter about the sorority house having low-fat bread and bagels, but it makes me feel good when I hear people confirm my thoughts about Atkins.
In other news, I have some nice, blue stitches in my arm. It's very interesting and at times I get a little queasy thinking about the fact that they were sewn into me, and that they're right there in my line of sight threaded through my skin, but I'm dealing.
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holy crap, why do you have stitches?melantha, Wednesday, June 16th