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Do what?

Posted by Dana on August 27, 2007

I was Googling for info about pomegranates and carb count. I wasn’t completely satisfied with what CalorieKing had to say about it because they didn’t take the seeds into account, and when I’ve eaten pomegranate, I eat the seeds. I would think that would factor into the fiber count and all.

While looking around I ran across a conversation on the message board of a low-carbing bodybuilder website. Lo and behold, an administrator on that board was preaching about how ketogenic diets are unnecessary except for people with any of a few specific health problems, one of them being epilepsy.

Wait a minute. He’s on a low-carb site… and he opposes ketogenic diets.

Let that sink in.

You know, I’ve been on this diet for almost two months and aside from some cramping–and I make sure to supplement with calcium, magnesium, and potassium now, which works pretty well–I’ve been fine. Better than fine. I’ve dropped about twenty pounds and gone from a 24 to an 18 in that time period. Yeah, ketogenic diets suck all right. You betcha, I sure didn’t need to be on one.

Where do they dig up these people, anyway? A serious paranoid would almost call them agents provocateurs.

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