A is for Atkins and Anorexia

I can't take the crap being printed about the Atkins Diet anymore. Supposedly 10% of the US is on this crazy diet and there was even an article recently in Salon, Hackers on Atkins, with the tagline:

Geeks who go low-carb see it as more than just taking off pounds -- they're reengineering the human organism, overclocking their own bodies.

The blogerati have reinvented anorexia and think of it as hacking? Whatever. I suppose the diet wouldn't be as cool if it were called "The Karen Carpenter Diet with Meat and 2 Veg". On the upside maybe they'll be fewer of them self-promoting themselves after a year or so.

The Atkins Diet is an eating disorder. You aren't 'hacking' your damn body, you're starving it and Atkins didn't invent that. The Atkins has all the hallmarks of an eating disorder. Telling yourself that any food, much less a loaf of bread, a food that has been around for thousands of years, is the source of all your evil fat is a big step down the road to having a really dysfunctional relationship with food. A whole new generation of girls are going to mistake an eating disorder masquerading as a diet as something that's acceptable and healthy and that's the worst thing of all.

Sure, the diet works and works quickly, but you'll pay in the long-term both physiologically and psychologically.