As of today I know four people who are on the Atkins diet. If you live under a rock it means that they have decided to eat nothing but meat, cheese and eggs in hopes of losing weight. This sounds like a McDonald's plan to me. Oh wait, can't eat potatoes, nevermind.
This is just unbelievable to me. I love bacon just as much as the next meat eater, but I can't possibly see it as a weight loss plan. Does anyone remember the good old food pyramid? Go look at a loaf of bread, what does it show on the bottom of that thing? That's right, grains! Is this all a conspiracy by the Pillsbury dough boy to get us all fat? Don't make me get into all the chemical biology of all this (because I can) but the body NEEDS carbohydrates.
Maybe it works, and maybe I will eat my words, but when I do it will be in the middle of two big pieces of white bread. And maybe some bacon on the side...
Posted by Bryan at February 20, 2004 11:49 PM