A July 24, 2006 Jimmy Moore column reprints comments from the "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb" blog critical of ACSH's Julianne Chickering:
"Just eat in moderation and you'll lose all the weight you want."
Everytime somebody says that to me, I just want to throw up and beat them with a wet noodle (a low-carb one, of course!). But that's exactly what this American Council on Science and Health article written by their research intern Julianne Chickering is proposing. Oh, brother!
In a stern rebuke of the various weight loss plans out there, including livin' la vida low-carb, Chickering said these different ways of eating are all just "madness" because having so many choices for would-be dieters makes it so confusing for people to differentiate between what is healthy and what is not when it comes to losing weight.
No it doesn't. What it does is it provides people with various ways to lose weight since we don't all do well on a "one-size-fits-all" diet plan. If we did, then EVERYBODY would be on that plan and there wouldn't be a need to have so many diets. But the reality is that people should find something that works for them and then they need to keep doing it forever to maintain their weight...
Continuing with her theme, Chickering said "people should eat a wide variety of foods in moderation and get regular exercise."
