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The result? Micromanaging carbs was no more effective than counting up points or fats or anything else. Thus, investigators came up empty handed – carb content of food was irrelevant to weight loss.
Without definitive proof that carbs pose a threat, and with recent evidence showing their irrelevance to weight loss itself, carbs have become dietary "weapons of mass distraction". The resulting campaign to win hearts and minds of people, by stoking fears of these molecules, distracts us from more immediate menace -- domestic Biggie Sized habits of personal overconsumption.
Dietary WMD not only divert us from more pressing problems at home, but many fear that pre-emptive invasions of this region of nutritional world could lead to a quagmire of weight and health problems. Already neo-Atkins’ intelligencia have rolled back fruit and vegetable consumption because of carb levels that – we now find out – were never a problem to begin with.
It becomes clearer by day that this nutritional war was founded upon dubious premises with no plan to win long-term weight management peace. Will we have courage to admit our past misunderestimates? Or will we "stay course"? Only time, and our waistlines, will tell.
Dr. Will Clower is the award-winning author of The Fat Fallacy and founder of The PATH Curriculum, The PATH Online, and Newsletter. The PATH: America’s weight solution. Dr. Clower can be reached on his website www.fatfallacy.com.