Someone posted a question on Anthony Colpo's Low Carb Muscle Forum, asking if he'd abandoned his own forum, since he had not been heard from in awhile. Here was Mr. Colpo's colorful response.

Looks like a typical Anthony response! No loss...

LOL! Bitter much?

One of those people one's best off reading the books of and never, ever meeting.

One less dickhead in cyberspace.

So no one took him up on his challenge?

Anthony Colpo - A Man Obsessed

That should explain it.

Nobody did. Probably because Colpo was correct. I closely followed the debate between Colpo and Eades, and feel Colpo won. Eades was NOT able to provide any evidence for a metabolic advantage for LC.

Despite Colpo's shortcomings, I agree with him that the main advantage of LC for weigh loss is appetite control, and preserving lean body mass during weight loss. But NOT the ability eat unlimited calories, just cause they're low in carbs.

But LC does indeed provide an advantage for other health issues.

Well in my world, people over the age of 12 say, "I disagree, here's why." And people are still able to have intelligent conversations.

In his world, he says, "!~#$!* !~#$)*!~#* !~)#$* !~#$O) !~)#$ )!~*#$ moron !~(#$!(~# $*!~)*#$ sniveling !~#$(!~#)$(*!~#$", and then all conversation sounds like it's between angry emotionally disturbed 12 year olds.

I don't care whether or not there is any 'metabolic advantage' to LC per that particular debate point; it works well enough for me for other reasons anyway. I don't really even care who is correct on the topic -- in part because I think more research is needed on this and many other points to be sure.

But I do think that based on his book, I respected Colpo, but then based on his behavior the moment he arrived on the internet, I lost it. At this point my respect for the man is so far into the negative that it genuinely interferes with my willingness to read anything he says about anything, because I'm so turned off by his personality.

I'm sorry if he had a bad childhood, or is emotionally troubled, or just hates everybody equally and without prejudice, or has some substance abuse issue, or whatever his situation may be that causes what appears to be some kind of moderate personality disorder on the surface. But the man is unable to have an intelligent conversation with anybody who isn't agreeing with him on every point, and he instantly devolves into playground-level name-calling and enraged rants at the first sign of disagreement, even when it's done politely. The man brings back USENET memories in a big way LOL.

I'm always glad to see new books about research. But I'm delighted to see him do his own reputation a favor and depart before yet more people get a good look at what kind of person he apparently is.

He might very well be right. But he had zero skills at imparting that information and took it as a personal affront when disagreed with.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. It seems he has done just that.

I hope that Colpo will use his newly acquired free time to increase his income. Few people could compete with the rates he could charge for being an ass hat.

He could be right as right can be but no one would listen to him because of the way he acts. I might have read his book at some point but I was so turned off by his rantings that I figured the book would be more of the same. If he did manage to corral his raving I just still have a hard time taking someone seriously that I can only picture foaming at the mouth.

Anthony was a regular poster here a few years ago. You may fault his Aussie irascibility but not his knowledge of physiology. I think he got tired of the name-calling. It went both ways but I recall it was worse at this end. If you can't debate intelligently, you can always hurl insults. BTW, what's an 'ass hat'?

I think there was more to it than Aussie irascibility... always wondered if there might be some steroid issues fueling that rage.

I had a period where I behaved like that. Turned out I was profoundly low on oxygen -- so much so it was amazing I lived to tell. In any case, it certainly wasn't normal.