The shortcuts they promise take the dieter on a roundabout, disappointing and dangerous road. The high-protein diet they advocate disrupts homeostasis, the body's balance, resulting in stress, tension, nausea, and sleeplessness.
Having studied their works I believe the government should set up a new F.D. A.—A Federal Diet Administration. This agency would test the effects of the diets, and especially determine whether they reduce the chances of heart, liver and gall bladder disease, cancer and hypertension.
What irks me most about the anti-carbohydrate diets is the pit of disappointment they dig for the unsuspecting user. The dieter embarks on these programs desperate to lose fat. He happily notes his initial loss of weight. Unfortunately his joy is a delusion. He does not realize that what he has dropped is mostly water. And because he is losing water, the weight loss is temporary, so that he is really riding that roller coaster we mentioned earlier. In my diet I sa^ drop fat, not water. If my Federal Diet Administration ever comes about its first order of business would be to look into the dangers posed by the weight loss resulting from the protein programs. It is for a very good reason that the Scarsdale regimen warns the user not to stay on ft for more than two weeks. The dieter on this regimen, nutritionally speaking, is liable to overload his heart with stress. That's why I decided that no diet plan could be complete without dealing with the stress factor.
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