Behaviour of the low carb antis explained.

Typical low carb anti too much sugar making them aggressive.

One of the great mysterious of life to me, is the attitude of low carb antis. Why certain people are so vehemently opposed to low carb is beyond me. I can understand why The British Dietetic Association and some of its high profile dietitians do not approve, because they are sponsored by junk food outfits such as Danone, Abbott Nutrition, Nestle, Cereal Partners, BelVita Breakfast Biscuits and Coca Cola. The funding would disappear like a rat down a pipe, if the BDA promoted a whole fresh food, non processed junk diet. Clearly money is a big consideration with dietary professionals, but what about the amateurs. So many work so hard to rubbish low carb at every opportunity, the $64,000 question is why. Could it be the reason is too much sugar?

This is an interesting story. Experts noticed the monkeys were getting very aggressive and worked out sugar was the cause. When the sugar via fruit was reduced, the monkeys improved mentally and physically. Maybe next time an anti is giving it large on social media, I should check out their fruit consumption, well you never know.

"The monkeys at Bristol Zoo are having bananas – and in fact all fruit – phased out of their diet – after research found bananas are too sugary and healthy and another West zoo said they can hype the monkeys up to fight each other more.

Bristol Zoo’s keepers said although that has not been a problem in their zoo, they are in the process of cutting out all fruit from all the meals given to primates, who will be tucking into fresh vegetables and pellets instead.

Experts said that the bananas and other fruit grown for human consumption has been developed to be far more sugary and less nutritious than the monkeys might otherwise have found in the wild, and therefore it was not good for them.

Bristol Zoo’s director, Dr Bryan Carroll, said many of the primates at Bristol Zoo receive little or no fruit at all in their daily diets already, and that would soon be down to zero for all of them.

Senior head keeper of mammals at Paignton Zoo, Matthew Webb, said it had already made a difference “We have noticed an improvement in the condition of primate coats – in particular the colour and thickness of the fur of the Sulawesi crested black macaques,” he said.

“Smaller monkeys such as tamarins and marmosets are highly-strung animals and live in tight-knit social groups which can be quite aggressive at times. Reducing the sugar in their diets has calmed them down and made their groups more settled.”

Amy Plowman, the head of conservation and advocacy at Paignton Zoo, said: “People usually try to improve their diet by eating more fruit – but fruit cultivated for humans is much higher in sugar and much lower in protein and fibre than most wild fruit because we like our fruit to be so sweet and juicy.

“Giving this fruit to animals is equivalent to giving them cake and chocolate"

Full story here.

Eddie