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.