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Originally Posted by JEY100

Kelly Hogan of Zero Carb has a funny article about what really happened to her photo on the cover of Women's World...and where all the veggies and avocado came from.
http://myzerocarblife.jamesdhogan.c...wns-cover-girl/

Even after insisting the magazine wanted to feature a Really Different diet, they added veggies to meal plans she never eats.

Woman's World magazine is notorious for "creative editing" and adding their own tweaks and embellishments to articles they publish

. Mary Dan Eades (co-author of Protein Power books) blogged about how they altered a low-carb article she'd written .. defatting the menu, and adding things like toast, oatmeal and margarine

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..... The basic idea of the plan was to eat a nutritious protein breakfast (such as eggs, bacon, and a serving of berries, or a cup of plain yogurt with added protein powder, or a protein shake) then enjoy the ‘Weight Loss Soup’ for lunch and dinner. The soup diet was to be used as a means of getting a quick, tasty and nutritious meal three times a day that kept carbs and calories low, as a means of shedding a few extra pounds over two or there weeks in a No Muss, No Fuss sort of way.

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We’re big soup fans anyway, so we provided the soup recipe and some appropriate suggestions for quick breakfast ideas, like the ones above, that they had asked for and the magazine did the rest. Unfortunately, some of the rest of what they did was incorrect and we didn’t get to actually see it until the article appeared in the magazine. For instance, they suggested a quick breakfast of eggs and toast with margarine (!!) which we would never ever have recommended. They threw in additions, such as I think even a bagel (there’s 30 grams of carb!) with some low fat thises and thats and a number of inappropriate snacks, such as a sliced apple (20 grams of carb there) with low fat cheese (yuk!) or something like that. On a low calorie diet, such as this, a few extra carbs probably aren’t going to stall weight loss, but what they may do is promote hunger. Better to add a few more fat grams than carb grams, if curbing hunger is your goal!

I think they might even have suggested a bowl of oatmeal with low fat milk, maybe, and I feel sure a pat of the dreaded margarine.