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arteacher wrote on 03/20/12 at 11:13:12:Just had a long talk with my wife's dietician. The grist (pun intended) of the conversation was: yes the palio, Atkins, and wheat belly diets, along with exercise, will help you lose weight. Most people who do these diets for a while and then adopt a healthy eating and exercise regimen will keep most of the weight off. For a normal person to stay on any of these diets for a considerable length of time, or indefinitely, is detrimental to your health, as they are not considered to be a healthy eating regimen, and cause damage to various organs. She had read a synopsis of the book, without all the "praise the lord god Davis, I'm saved" BS and had come to the conclusion that it was just a twist on the Atkins diet. As to the claims that it cured all manner of things, including MS, her comment was "That's a crock." I enjoyed talking to an expert about this stuff, and it reinforced my gut (again pun intended) feeling about the whole issue. She's obviously just parroting the standard crock she was taught, which is the same crock spewed by the FDA, USDA, Monsanto, etc.
A very telling thing is how she said that curing all manner of things is a crock. I'd like to see her say that to the lady a few days ago who now is probably going to get to keep her toes, or the parents whose kid no longer exhibits any epilepsy, or the lady who had a lifetime of debilitating MS and within a few months gradually moved from a wheechair to crutches to a cane to being fully ambulatory. I guess your "expert" would just say those things didn't happen, eh?
I wouldn't be surprised for such an alleged expert to do something like that. Paradigm paralysis is very real thing. If I had a conversation with her and I told her of all the things that had just happened to me when I made only one change in my diet,.. no wheat,.. she'd say something to show how it had nothing to do with wheat but with something else, probably. Or,.. that it was all in my head.
She is of the same mindset of the USAF eye doc I talked to one time when I wanted a prescription for +.5 glasses. He said I didn't need them, I needed minus glasses. I told him what had happened to me in college when, on the advice of a vision therapist, I started wearing plus prescription glasses for studying and my vision went from 20/240 to 20/30 in a matter of weeks. He looked at me with a straight face and actually said, "that didn't happen." That thing that didn't happen allowed me to get into the USAF and fly F-4s.
How do you deal with someone like that who has paradigms so strong that can not see what is right in front of their face? Your dietician is one of these types. "She had read a synopsis of the book." Give me a break! That statement says a lot. What it says is she knows very little about what is in the book. The fact that she would badmouth something she knows nothing about speaks pretty poorly of her as a source for any advice at all. If I were you, I'd go find somebody who cares about reality, rather than focusing only on her own limited and faulty training.
If I were you, I'd be a little concerned about how you are denying you AND you wife the possibilities of vastly improved lives.
Sometime, let's compare the books your "expert" has written to the books the Doc has written, and we'll go to the backs of the books and start validating all the references. It's a very telling exercise,.. tedious, but informative. The way they use the references, the conclusions drawn, and the credibility of the authors in those references can be a primary indicator of the value of what is in the book itself. That is how I vetted this Doc's book. If you'll give me the titles of the books your "expert" has written, I'll vet some of her references and see how well she does.
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