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The PCRM takes some unjustifiable cheap shots at the low-carb diet in this latest announcement. For example, they state that people in Asia live on high-carbohydrate rice diets and seem to do just fine. That's not an honest comparison for two reasons. First, the Asians who are "doing fine" on rice diets are physically active, and most Americans are not. Secondly, Asians are born with metabolic systems better able to handle grains and carbohydrates when compared to people of European or American Indian descent. I know this because I've spent considerable time studying the dietary response to carbohydrates in the Chinese (I lived in Asia for two years, I speak Chinese, and I'm married to a full-blood Chinese). What I know is that Chinese people can consume a large bowl of noodles and a side dish of white rice without suffering the radical blood sugar swings normally experienced by "white" people (like me). In other words, Chinese have evolved a superior metabolic response to dietary carbohydrates. Yet even that can be overcome by Western diets: when Asians start consuming fast food, processed food, soft drinks and other staples of the western diet, they also succumb to the ravages of diet-related diseases like cancer and diabetes. So, for the PCRM to state that "Asians eat carbohydrates and are just fine" is either disturbingly uninformed or outright deceptive. Asians have a unique metabolism well suited to the consumption of grains -- other people do not.

For many years, I have supported the PCRM's basic stance on health and especially on their effort to increase awareness of what really goes on behind closed doors in the beef industry, but I think that recently the organization has sadly turned to publicity tactics that are rather unethical -- like getting their hands on Dr. Atkins' medical records and leaking them to the press. That's an invasion of Atkins' privacy, for one thing, and a violation of basic ethics. Sure, they were trying to make a point (they proposed Dr. Atkins died of heart disease), but if they are really physicians, they have a special duty to uphold the privacy of medical records. The ends don't always justify the means.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/552768.cms

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• Thanks to new research which reveals that low-carb dieters manage to lose weight and show perceptible change in their levels of cholesterol, blood sugars, and blood pressures, because they are absolutely sickened by it.
• In the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, John McDougall, an advisory board member of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), explains that low-carb diets can throw people into a metabolic state called ketosis, that also occurs during severe illness.
• People living mostly on high-carbohydrate rice and vegetable dishes in Asia are trim throughout their lives with almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or our common cancers, he went on to say.

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