Okay, this is an interesting point.

In The Naive Vegetarian, the author makes this point:
These days, it seems that there are more and more reasons to protest against the way our society is being run. There are voices of disseat everywhere. (It is the reason for this website!) but there is a much more worrying trend - violent protest ( Read more... )

So I chanced upon John Robbins' book, "Healthy at 100" the other day, and I looked through it. John (whose parent was half of Baskin-Robbins), comes down pretty hard on low-carbohydrate diets. He's less scathing about South Beach than about Atkins, but not by much. He says that SB has at least one thing going for it: the switch away from highly- ( Read more... )