Andrew Pollack's Blog
Technology, Family, Entertainment, Politics, and Random Noise| Professional Services | Second Signal | Presentations | Andrew's Blog | Support |
Who really cares if Atkins was overweight?
By Andrew Pollack on 02/11/2004 at 09:52 PM ESTFriends, Romans, Countryman -- fellow geeks all; does it matter if the man who brought us the T-Bone Steak as a diet aid was himself overweight when he died?
Now understand, I'm not on a low carb diet -- you can have my carbs when you pry them from my cold, dead, fat encapsulated hands (or when I put them down to slam some caffeine). I'm not even sure, from what I read, that a low carb diet that reduces your weight at the possible expense of your kidneys, liver, and dare I say bowels is such a good thing for most people. Of course, if you're in serious health crises due to your weight, and Dr. Atkins' bit of magic works for you than its probably worth it. I can name a couple of good friends who will likely be with us longer as a result.
What the Atkins diet did was poke a big stick at conventional wisdom. The fact is, for whatever reason, millions of people are loosing weight by putting themselves in a nearly constant state of ketoses. The long term results of that are probably still to be determined -- but again, think of all those establishment types who have had to go back and eat their own high carb words now that its been proven effective (if not always wise).
Lets try to remember Dr. Atkins for the contribution he makes to contrarian thought while the rest of the medical world tries to figure out why it works and what we can learn from it. The results may be more important in the long run than a few pounds among friends.
Other Recent Stories...
- 01/26/2023Better Running VirtualBox or VMWARE Virtual Machines on Windows 10+ Forgive me, Reader, for I have sinned. I has been nearly 3 years since my last blog entry. The truth is, I haven't had much to say that was worthy of more than a basic social media post -- until today. For my current work, I was assigned a new laptop. It's a real powerhouse machine with 14 processor cores and 64 gigs of ram. It should be perfect for running my development environment in a virtual machine, but it wasn't. VirtualBox was barely starting, and no matter how many features I turned off, it could ......
- 04/04/2020How many Ventilators for the price of those tanks the Pentagon didn't even want?This goes WAY beyond Trump or Obama. This is decades of poor planning and poor use of funds. Certainly it should have been addressed in the Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Reagan administrations -- all of which were well aware of the implications of a pandemic. I want a military prepared to help us, not just hurt other people. As an American I expect that with the ridiculous funding of our military might, we are prepared for damn near everything. Not just killing people and breaking things, but ......
- 01/28/2020Copyright Troll WarningThere's a copyright troll firm that has automated reverse-image searches and goes around looking for any posted images that they can make a quick copyright claim on. This is not quite a scam because it's technically legal, but it's run very much like a scam. This company works with a few "clients" that have vast repositories of copyrighted images. The trolls do a reverse web search on those images looking for hits. When they find one on a site that looks like someone they can scare, they work it like ......
- 03/26/2019Undestanding how OAUTH scopes will bring the concept of APPS to your Domino server
- 02/05/2019Toro Yard Equipment - Not really a premium brand as far as I am concerned
- 10/08/2018Will you be at the NYC Launch Event for HCL Domino v10 -- Find me!
- 09/04/2018With two big projects on hold, I suddenly find myself very available for new short and long term projects.
- 07/13/2018Who is HCL and why is it a good thing that they are now the ones behind Notes and Domino?
- 03/21/2018Domino Apps on IOS is a Game Changer. Quit holding back.
- 02/15/2018Andrew’s Proposed Gun Laws
