Re: Laura Goes Veggie
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This will be my last post to the McDougall forums. I am grateful to Dr. McDougall for helping me find my path to health and to the members here who encouraged me. I started my search for better health and wellness about six years ago. I started with low carb. I ended up here. Does that mean McDougall is right for me? Yes. Does that mean it is the be all and end all of nutrition science? Not at all.
McDougall is not a religion to me. I am always open to new ideas. I also try to see the best in people and never to assume an evil motive for someone who does not see eye-to-eye with me. It really bothers me that there are people here whose minds are made up. There were some who posted on the China Study thread "As soon as she said I eat meat for health reasons, I stopped reading." Wow. How closed minded can one be? There are others who so believe that animal protein and fat are evil that they cannot even conceive of anything else.
Fat is not Satan. Meat is not Satan. They are foodstuffs. They are "macronutrients". There are studies that claim to prove that they cause disease. There are studies that show otherwise. This is science, not religion or superstition.
I am deeply offended by the type of close-mindedness and fear that would cause someone to malign a person based on his or her scientific claims. Dr. McDougall sells books, week-long seminars, and packaged foods. Dr. Atkins sold books and packaged foods as well. But, because people have been brainwashed to believe that FAT KILLS!!!, they ascribe good motives to Dr. McDougall, and bad ones to Dr. Atkins.
That is lazy, ignorant and childish thinking.
I have read - more than once - on this forum, that a low carb diet gives weak people an excuse to gorge themselves on meat and cheese. These people assume a moral superiority that they don't deserve. Take a peek at a low carb forum. The people there have given up many pleasures, like bread and potatoes. They could just as easily say, "Those McDougallers are just looking for an excuse to gorge themselves on potatoes and pasta and bread!"
I could probably try to turn a blind eye to the slurs against Dr. Atkins and low-carbers and continue to enjoy this forum, but my conscience won't let me. And I don't want to waste my time arguing on an internet forum. It's like wrestling with a pig in the mud. You both get dirty, and the pig enjoys it.
Thank you SO MUCH to the people here who have encouraged me on my McDougall path. My best wishes to you.
McDougall is not a religion to me. I am always open to new ideas. I also try to see the best in people and never to assume an evil motive for someone who does not see eye-to-eye with me. It really bothers me that there are people here whose minds are made up. There were some who posted on the China Study thread "As soon as she said I eat meat for health reasons, I stopped reading." Wow. How closed minded can one be? There are others who so believe that animal protein and fat are evil that they cannot even conceive of anything else.
Fat is not Satan. Meat is not Satan. They are foodstuffs. They are "macronutrients". There are studies that claim to prove that they cause disease. There are studies that show otherwise. This is science, not religion or superstition.
I am deeply offended by the type of close-mindedness and fear that would cause someone to malign a person based on his or her scientific claims. Dr. McDougall sells books, week-long seminars, and packaged foods. Dr. Atkins sold books and packaged foods as well. But, because people have been brainwashed to believe that FAT KILLS!!!, they ascribe good motives to Dr. McDougall, and bad ones to Dr. Atkins.
That is lazy, ignorant and childish thinking.
I have read - more than once - on this forum, that a low carb diet gives weak people an excuse to gorge themselves on meat and cheese. These people assume a moral superiority that they don't deserve. Take a peek at a low carb forum. The people there have given up many pleasures, like bread and potatoes. They could just as easily say, "Those McDougallers are just looking for an excuse to gorge themselves on potatoes and pasta and bread!"
I could probably try to turn a blind eye to the slurs against Dr. Atkins and low-carbers and continue to enjoy this forum, but my conscience won't let me. And I don't want to waste my time arguing on an internet forum. It's like wrestling with a pig in the mud. You both get dirty, and the pig enjoys it.
Thank you SO MUCH to the people here who have encouraged me on my McDougall path. My best wishes to you.