Through the Cooking Glass

Start with part 1…

One day we decided to get on the scales. That caused a great deal of weeping and wailing and a sudden drive to lose weight. We leaped on the low-fat bandwagon with a vengeance. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to have very much affect at all.

At some point along in here we ran across low-carb diets. My first exposure to low-carb (or moderate carb) was through Barry Sears’ Zone Diet. At the same time I was reading that, my wife was reading The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet (CAD). Atkins came along later on after Shari had built up a resistance to the CAD, but the CAD worked miraculously for quite some time. Eventually Shari switched to Atkins and I found that a moderate-carb approach worked well for me.

What the discovery of an alternative diet theory did for me was to confound my faith in science, or rather scientists. While some scientists had come up with a theory that seemed to work quite well for us, others insisted quite vehemently that such a theory was wrong. Scientists had “religious” quarrels just like Christians did and who was right was anybody’s guess.

Additionally, it drove another nail in the coffin of the Seventh-day Adventist prophetess Ellen White, who claimed you shouldn’t eat animal products. There is no way you can eat low-carb without ingesting some type of animal product.

I had already had my Christian faith confounded and now my faith in science (or at least scientists) had been confounded. What this did was to leave me hanging out in space with no real firm belief in anything. I hung on for a bit like that, but this was the inevitable turning point that made me decide that I needed to do some serious thinking and figure out the truth.

To be continued…