Miscellaneous Low-Carb Audio And Images

CJ
Hi Jimmy,
Inspired looks like avery sweet film. I look forward to seeing it.
Btw, Gary Taubes was interviewed on PBS’s Talk of the Nation Science Friday today… folks should be able to get it via their local PBS affiliate archives. Or national site too http://www.sciencefriday.com/
Best,
CJ
CJ Hunt
http://www.perfecthumandiet.com
Jimmy Moore
THANKS CJ! I think INSPIRED will be the perfect COMPLEMENT to YOUR film which will be more about the science behind a healthy lifestyle. Steve’s film is more about the emotional and psychological issues concerning obesity and health.
I appreciate the note about Gary Taubes being on PBS. He was also on NPR today which I will highlight in my next Taubes update coming soon.
GREAT to hear from you as always!
Paul Kelly – 95.1 WAYV
Hi Jimmy,
We’ll have to agree to disagree on Bill Maher’s humor and politics. I’m in agreement with most of what he says (except his views on religion) – but you and I are in 100% agreement that his take on the health crisis in America is right on!
You should forward that clip to Dr. Davis, I’m sure he’d appreciate what Bill has to say about how there’s no money to be made by the healthcare or pharmaceutical industries from healthy people…or dead people. Just SICK people. That’s one of the reasons the work that you and Dr. Davis is do is so important!
Paul
bsenka
Loved the audio of Dr. Atkins. It’s the only interview with him I’d ever seen or heard. If you ever come across any others (I know Larry King interviewed him a few times), I’d love to see/hear them!
I was surprised at how conciliatory Dr. A was, considering how much I’d heard that he was supposedly so abrasive and standoffish. Even when contronted by a guy who’s entire philosophy was his polar opposite, he showed a great deal more constraint than I ever would have!
JD
Dr. McDougall was extremely defensive and vitriolic in his attack on Dr. Atkins. You could hear the fear in his voice. For god’s sake McDougall ease up. Dr. Atkins indicated his diet was for those with a specific disorder. He didn’t say the entire planet should be on Atkins.
Kevin
Dr. Michael Eades is currently putting forth the theory that Dr. Atkins alienated the health establishment because he was too arrogant. While there may be a grain of truth in this, I think it also may be a misreading of the fact that Dr. Atkins was furiously indignant at the willful blindness of a health institution that preferred to sacrifice the health of a nation rather than accept the truth.
Dr. Atkins may have been angry, but I say he was righteously and justifiably so. If he alienated, it was because he refused to sugar-coat the truth, and because he saw that it would take pummeling with clubs, rather than soothing words, to break through the pathologic denial of the entrenched authorities. If he failed, it was not his fault, but theirs. Let’s not make excuses or put the blame on the only person who ever stood up for the truth. Jesus was called “arrogant”, too.
Kevin
The NPR interview and the PBS interview are one and the same. The “opposing expert” doctor in the interview is actually featured in Taubes’ book for doing key research on de-bunking the cholesterol myths. However, despite agreeing generally with Taubes’ conclusions about carbs being the real cause of weight gain and heart disease, at the end of the interview this Dr. Barnes says he does not think a study would receive public approval because there would be “no demonstrated public health benefit”. He actually speaks the old warn saw of “why do a study when no one can stay on a diet anyway?” Taubes tries to counter with the tobacco argument (should we tell people to keep smoking because it is easier and more pleasant?) but on this point, this otherwise rational researcher is utterly obtuse. This is a prime example, on tape and national broadcast, of the pathological blindness and irresponsibility of the research system. Taubes had limited time (of course), but he had to have left that interview shaking his head in incredulity, as did I. Hopefully a few listeners did also. It may be time for a letter to Science Friday.
Kevin
The McDougall interview, like too many such interviews, is a series of rapid-fire, machine-gun attacks which do not allow the interviewee any proper time to respond or go into depth. And the questions are misleading and loaded. These type of interviews are almost a waste of time.
Dr. A did not really get McDougall to slow down and pay attention until he got angry. In response to the question of why does your diet not agree with studies cited by the AMA and AHA, including the Harvard Nurses Study, Atkins said “do you know how to spell CROOKED?” The researchers failed to mention known opposing evidence. Dr. A pulled no punches about these biased agencies and their finessed studies.
But both mcdougall and Atkins were respectful in the end and said they admired each others work. Atkins admitted that McDougall got opposite results. Mcdougall seemed to enjoy the honest debate. He sounded like he might actually be convinced by the right evidence and and said he would love to have Dr. A back on. I don’t know if McDougall is still operating in California.
Anne
Heh, I’m a little late to the party on this entry but it brings warmth to my heart that there is something you and Bill Maher agree on
My atheist self has been known to stop on the 700 Club while channel surfing to listen to Pat Robertson rant about aspertame or nutrition or government “nannying”.
It’s good that government stupidity can bring us all together