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Low Carb (is it) Fraud - Marika Sboros

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I thought it was time for a snapshot of Low Carb Enforcer Marika Sboros. Why enforcer? Well she seems to be the one who will report anyone who doubts the magic of low carb to their employers, fat sham or mock you. She is also constantly on the look out for vegans to attack. Her other prime role is to promote any books or products low carb advocates sell. These books are only sold to help people though, not to make money from because making money off the sick is wrong. So the only reason than an unproven treatment isn't supported is because MDs and drug companies can't profit from it? The opposite surely? The MD she has retweeted has of course written a book and guess what the general theme is???? Does anyone genuinely think the doctors just want to pump people full of drugs? I have no doubts there are a few bad drs out there on the take but the majority will want their patients healthy and off all medication. Luckily Dr OMara does't want you to buy expensive drug...

Random Thoughts on Training Potential Part 3

In Part 1 I gave a theory of Genetic Potential (GP) and Part 2 a theory for Natural Potential (NP) but life is never so simple as to evoke one theory at a time. So what if you have an individual with high GP and high NP BUT that individual due to environmental, and other factors, is not maximizing either. So you have got an overweight 19 year old who spends their days sat down, watching Netflix playing computer games etc and has a terrible diet. The environment changes and the individual chooses diet XXXX and starts doing basic exercise (walking etc) but predominately less sitting. 3 months later that individual has lost a good load of weight and is now singing the praises of diet XXXX. Well we see this all the time. Every single diet has someone who lost loads of weight 'just' by following that diet. A percentage of followers of every single diet then use these super responders as justification of the miracle of their diet (and to the determent of every other diet). Yet th...