"What Is the 'Best Diet' for You?" asks US News and World Report. According to the magazine'srankings, the DASH Diet is the best overall. Atkins and other low-carb approaches finish in the second-division. Despite claims of a rigorous methodology, the rankings betray a conventional and increasingly suspect thinking about fat, carbohydrates, and health. The usual low-fat/ high-carb approach wins because it is presumed to be balanced, healthy and effective. But presumption is not … [Read more...]
Is the Dukan Diet “Atkins-like”? Not really
On Good Morning America this morning [June 1], Juju Chang referred to the Dukan Diet as "Atkins-like." Her report was about Dr. Dukan suing for libel another French doctor who had bad-mouthed the diet. The Atkins people may feel that Chang has libeled them. The Atkins website features a detailed contrast of the Atkins and Dukan Diets, the point of which is that Atkins is balanced and backed by science and Dukan is not. A key criticism leveled in the full-text of the Atkins article is that … [Read more...]