Every time I see a blog post or other article like this, I want to scream. From the 180 Degree Health blog:
I have written about the before and after of eating a low-carb Paleo or low-carb non-Paleo diet for going on three years now. While it is extremely common to lose weight without effort, hunger, or cravings – and have amazing energy levels to boot (and temporary alleviation of health problems), that doesn’t make it healthy, sustainable, or permanent. In what I would venture to guess is the majority of those that embark on a low-carb diet, the results are short-lived, followed by the emergence of a clusterf$%# of new health problems related to adrenal burnout, hypothyroidism, and the hot mess that stems from it. Because of the roughly 3-12 month window of tremendous vigor, vitality, and effortless weight loss that many, myself included, experienced on a low-carb diet – I have dubbed this the low-carb “honeymoon.”
Are these people not eating fruit? Are they avoiding tubers like the plague? The paleolithic diet means restricting one's eating to things that our ancestors would have recognized as food. How that came to mean "living on bacon with a side order of cheese fried in butter" is a source of complete mystification to me. Now for god's sake, throw away that Atkins diet book and go eat a sweet potato or a banana or something. Argh!
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