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Old 15-09-2004, 11:57 PM
Roger Zoul
 
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Pat Kiewicz wrote:
|| Ignoramus13229 said:
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||| In article , Pat Kiewicz wrote:
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|||| Side comment #2:
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|||| I have kind of a problem with the whole low-carb thing. Limiting
|||| high-glycemic foods is sensible. Avoiding highly processed foods
|||| is sensible. Eating a lot of meat from grain-fed, confined
|||| animals and
|||| the wrong sorts of fats isn't. Someone close to me went on the
|||| original Atkins diet. He developed kidney stones and ended up not
|||| so much later with inoperable cancer. Soured me on the concept.
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||| Scary stuff! My only question about this inoperable cancer, it
||| usually
||| takes years for cancer to appear and develop. Are you sure that he
||| did
||| not have cancer before?
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|| Cutting out most fruits and many vegetables (which he did) because
|| they contained cabohydrates -- foods that are loaded with beneficial
|| phytochemicals -- foods that are associated with lower rates of
|| cancer -- and eating loads of supermarket beef certainly didn't help.

But it likely didn't result in inoperable cancer, either.