What I find funny is that a lot of the negative claims about low-carb diets have been around for much longer than you would think. I was reading the book about Steffanson and Anderson (two men who ate only meat--no veggies, eggs, dairy for a year). In that book, which was published around 1920-1930, Steffanson talks about people being worried about how it would harm the kidneys, give you heart attacks, cause vitamin deficiencies (particularly Vitamin C), etc. And, after a full year of nothing but meat under medical supervision and testing, Steffanson felt that he had provided evidence that those worries were bunk*. This was back in the early 1900s. But, we still hear those old wives tales and concerns to this day.

* His observation was that the only remarkable result from the entire study was that nothing remarkable happened at all. The two men were just as healthy (and a little thinner) than when they had started it.

No, Atkins works because insulin is controlled by eating high fat and moderate protein. BBC is comedy when it comes to fitness. If you see the study they showed fat/protein satiety when the subjects ate bunch of carbs, proteins and fats. They tallied at the end and showed that there was no difference in Satiety. BBC also had a series truth about food, they did a satiety test in that show, the subject who was eating more fat was given a pizza, the high protein guy was given mostly chicken with little bit of pasta. Guess what, if you eat lot of carbs, it does;t matter what you eat because insulin spikes, and you will get hungry when it falls. When I am in cutting phase, I eat 80% fat and my protein is around 80-100g, I could get by 1 meal a day. Now I eat 150-160 g of protein per day, I am hungry and there is no way I can do with one meal, I have to eat more than one meal because I am hungry.

My Diary is open. Most of my meals from feb- May/june were 80% fat. I trave a lot, so every other week I rely on starbucks heavy cream for fats.