Thank you for bumping this!

I started low carbing after my physician gave me a copy of the Taubes article. I have been amazed ever since at how many of my health concerns disappeared with a change in diet.

This was the article that took 90 pounds off me in 2003 and has kept it off since. Thanks, GT. A monumental piece of writing that has improved - and saved - many lives.

Bumping: because a lot of folks might have missed the bombshell that started the whole "war."

It is hard to believe it has been 15 years since it came out. I started LCing in 1999, and this article helped me keep going. Unfortunately, those outside the choir still aren't listening.

Bumping up this 2002 thread because yesterday and today there has been much "tweeting" about title article.

Gary Taubes: "While I wait for Russia-Croatia to resolve, David Ludwig reminds me that today is the 16th anniversary of ... https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/...nted=all&src=pm "

I still have a yellowed print copy saved in my historical diets file but now realize it was from the Raleigh News and Observer, July 14, 2002. Good that the article had wider distribution. If I had only stuck with it then, but it took Gary Taubes knocking me upside the head with Good Calories, Bad Calories in 2010 for low carb to stick permanently!
The original, the classic, worth a re-read

You called it!!!

The tide is turning.

LOL! When I saw this thread bumped by Janet, I thought, "gee, I bet I can guess what I said back in 2002."

What a time to be alive. I guess.

I know tha wthout this forum, I am lost. NO one, NO ONE, outside this forum can speak low carb.

Thank you to all the moderators and original members of the forum who have hung in here for 16 years, and along with Gary, have been patiently waiting for the "paradigm to shift" ...and world peace.

Very true that in the real world no one I talk with understands LC at all. The reaction to the way I eat the toppings off pizza and leave the crusts behind, or eat lots of eggs, cook with copious amounts of real butter, and eat fatty meats - but no potatoes, bread, rice, or pasta - is usually unabashed shock and a declaration that they couldn't live without their carby favorites.

Because there is little to no LC support out in the real world, I appreciate that there are also other LC forums out there in the cyber-world - I'm a member on a few of them.

Still, this particular LC forum is the only one I know of where the news on dietary studies, and scientific evidence are discussed at length, and I greatly appreciate that, despite the fact that I tend to become very lost in some of the scientific discussions here which go much beyond blood sugar/insulin issues, and the dietary fat/satiation/sustained energy connection, because I just don't have a deep scientific background. (not that I don't appreciate those discussions - I just get lost in the scientific jargon)

One of the things I like best about this forum is the longevity of it, and the way that when an old research/media topic recurs in the media, the time is taken to bring up the original thread again - makes you realize just how long the controversy has gone on, and how much (or - in most cases - how little) has changed since then.