Pat Kiewicz wrote:

|| Side comment #2:
|| 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.

Side comment #1: Why do you assume that low-carbers eat a lot of meat?

Side comment #2: what makes you think that your friend got kidney stones and
ended up not o much later with inoperable cancer as a result of low carb?

Side comment #3: if you're soured on the concept, it because you're a
simpleton.