You couldn’t take anecdotal evidence from sites such as this, as there isn’t a system in place to check the integrity of the evidence put forward...
Take a look at some of the postings put forward from some of our low carbers who heavily promote, Bernstein and Atkins and you will find postings from them, concerning eating croissants, nibbling on their grand-daughters meal, the time where they’ve treated themselves to some normal carbs and even admittance of falling off the wagon, and worst of all some actually say the only eat 20-30g of carbs per day on the assumption that they avoid bread, pasta and potatoes etc, but forget that the likes of Bernstein actually bans some of the foods that they are eating, such as tomatoes, carrots and the humble onion all contain carbs in them that they eat and/or eat portions that would take them above the small amounts quite easily...
One interesting bit in the article, is that of Atkins theory of the insulin hormone, can’t argue that part of insulin’s duties is to enable the body to lay down excess glucose as a fat reserve.. But insulin can only carry out this job if one has an excess of glucose to turn into fat, in general this is at a time when the calorie intake exceeds the body’s energy requirements... So if one is matching their intake to their energy needs, insulin won’t kick its other duty of storing excess into fat simples...
Strange though, that on one hand Atkins promotes his diet as being healthier than the ‘standard healthy’ eating diet, but then on the other hand he earned more money selling supplements to support his diet theory!! Now this to me makes me ponder, did he know that fundamentally that his diet wasn’t as healthy as he proclaimed?? Or did he create his diet to promote and create a need for his supplements which seems to be a more lucrative business venture??? After all a healthy diet shouldn’t need supplementing...
And can some actually explain why on one hand they are so determined to reduce their prescribed medication, as they deem this as being harmful... But they are happy to munch on various different pills, capsules and potions, that aren’t manufactured or clinically tested with the same stringency as pharmaceutical products???