and all the damage we've done pushing those ultra low fat/High Carb diets over the years

last August - then for personal reasons, I started to neglect it - eating more potatoes and white flour type foods. Sure enough, there goes my belly and I had to start letting out my belt, instead of tightening it up.

I eat healthy, making sure I get lots and a variety of vegetables and healthy fruit and fiber, but if carbs creep up, my weight jumps, heartburn returns, and I have ZERO energy--just want to sleep all the time.

This isn't the first "medical dogma" I've fought over my lifetime and career, but it surely is the most entrenched.

1. All calories are NOT equal!
2. Fat is not the real problem!

I also have to wonder if this whole gluten issue may not be at lest partially a proxy for simple carbohydrate overload in some. Low carb is typically very low gluten, but unfortunately with this as most "fads", the commercial "low gluten" response is not necessarily low carb.

by some in the health food industry to overcomplicate a simple truth so as to market expensive "solutions" to a problem which is likely far more minor (gluten allergy) than they would want us to believe.

What's a good analogy for this...? The Segway, perhaps?

Butter butter butter. High fiber veggies. No grains. (Corn is a grain, btw)
Meat, eggs, fish. Olive oil.

Carbs are the bad guy, always.

Replace most of your carbs with high quality saturated fat (I use coconut oil and grass-fed butter) and you will lose weight and improve your overall health.

Now, if I could only find a single doctor who has the basic curiosity to learn these facts. Still looking.

Veggies>fruit>whole grains>processed foods

I'm using My Fitness Pal to track my food intake, and when looking at my daily tally for carbs I subtract the ones from veggies and fruit.

is another popular myth which is a belief not founded on real science.

I can even see how the contrary could be argued - i.e., try eating a fresh-picked apple, and then fresh-picked cabbage/potato/carrot.

But I quibble. Cheers!

My own blood tests proved that the high fat diet was raising the cholesterol in my blood.

So, I've done my own study, and it proves this study wrong.

But I did lose weight!