Bariatric Doctor Insists Low-Carb Is 'Dangerously Unhealthy'

10/8/2005

An op-ed piece that ran on News Blaze this week asks the question regarding weight loss and healthy living, "What if it wasn’t about low-carb or low-fat, but it was about YOU?"

Dr. Caroline J. Cederquist, a Naples, Florida-based medical doctor specializing in bariatics providing her patients with lifetime weight management programs, writes in her column that the debate about the efficacy of low-fat diets compared with the low-carb lifestyle will continue to exist because of "some very exciting new research" set to release.

"It seems now that scientists have shown that the big variable in deciding which is better isn’t so much the fat or the carbs—it’s you!" boasts Dr. Cederquist. "Of course, some of us have been saying that for a while."

Describing livin' la vida low-carb and specifically the Atkins diet as "a fairly extreme, carnivorous" way of eating (she's not an anti-meat activist like these idiots, is she?!), Dr. Cederquist claims it is "effective for some," but "dangerously unhealthy for others." She adds that no one diet plan is a "one-size-fits-all solution."

How can the same program be both "effective" and healthy for some while also being "dangerously unhealthy" for others at the same time? That doesn't make any sense to me. While I agree that the low-carb lifestyle is not the ultimate answer for anyone and everyone trying to lose weight and keep it off, I think making such hyberbolistic statements about low-carb achieves the desired effect of discouraging people from even trying this phenomenal lifestyle change for themselves.

Before I started livin' la vida low-carb in January 2004, I had tried every other diet imaginable. Low-fat, low-calorie, Slim-Fast, starve yourself, you name it! None of those worked for me because they were not sustainable over the long term for me. It wasn't until I found the low-carb lifestyle that I was able to eat many foods that I enjoy while still keeping my weight under control. This has been a miracle plan for me and I'm not going to have anyone convince me otherwise.

Dr. Cederquist admits she has people coming to her all the time "complaining of failure after failure with different diets" and are frustrated they have been unable to lose weight despite the fact that many others have seen success on various programs