[Chris]

Gee, I sure hope Brook doesn't yell at me for being on a soapbox, but I do have to admit that I feel that a low carb lifestyle is the most natural one -- for anyone. I've said this before, and I apologize to those who've "heard" it already, but our bodies did not evolve to eat carbs in any sort of abundance -- especially refined carbs!

It took millions of years for humans to evolve into our caveman ancestors, who were hunter/gatherers. Most of the time they subsisted on animal protein and fat, fish, and, no doubt, creepy crawlies of some sort. For just A FEW WEEKS in the year, they were able to gather wild fruits and vegetables. They had no agriculture, and no way to preserve any excess that they gathered. It was this diet that their bodies had evolved to assimilate. Today, thanks to modern agriculture, freezers and cans, we have an enormous overabundance of carbohydrates, constantly available. Just that, alone, is more than our bodies were designed for. But, we make it worse -- MUCH WORSE -- by refining many of those carbs into simple sugars, flours, etc. If you look at the amount of sugar that's dumped into the average modern body, it's amazing that we continue to function as well as we do. More and more, though, we're NOT functioning. Type II diabetes, which used to be called "adult onset" is being seen in children of 10 and 11 years old,. Two-thirds of the American populaton is overweight, and fully one-third is obese!

One-third of us either exercise enough, have a high enough metabolism, dislike sugar, or whatever, to be within a normal weight range. As to the rest, I'm fully convinced that if we could get people to open their eyes to what refined carbs are doing to them, we could change the world! (Sorry, Brook. I'll climb back down, now!)