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banurekha · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 16

hello,

Isn’t the low carb craze over?

mabal · Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 94

hi....

If you set your opinions by media hype, you will likely believe that Low-Carb, as a diet and lifestyle, is yesterday's news. Apparently, the ship has sailed. This conclusion is founded in the general statistics as formulated by the ever mysterious, all knowing, "they" who have tracked how many "band wagon" Low-Carb specialty food companies that are now defunct and grocers who have reduced shelf space to Low-Carb products because of steady decline in sales.

Interestingly, the primary reason sited for the deteriorating sales of Low-Carb food items is "Eating the same thing over and over is monotonous."

While I can't address the issue of Low-Carb product vendors going out of business, I can debate, with some authority, by virtue of experience, on the issue of monotonous eating. First of all, let me restate that the underlying concept of Low-Carb dieting is a means to eliminate food addictions. Low-Carb foods typically do not trigger food addiction responses. Sugar and high glycemic foods, such as potatoes, white bread and pastas made from white flour, fall into the category of habit-forming because these foods evoke cravings and create cyclic demand on glucose and insulin production, falling into both physical and psychological addiction categories