…so why are so many conservatives on the Atkins diet?
Because a lot of PEOPLE are on the Atkins diet, and conservatives are people. There’s no political angle to the plan- it either helps one lose weight or it doesn’t.
I have never heard of anyone who has gone on the diet and has not lost any weight…
Probably because it is the easiest diet to uphold for their working conditions and every day living habits. The atkins diet plus 30min of doubling your heart rate a day will have amazing results in most, if not all, people.
That or it’s just one of those things that catches on in a social environment and spreads as the “in thing” to do…
I know 2 liberals on the Atkins Diet.
It’s all a plot to get the little man’s dollars into the hands of big greedy coporate thugs who make and sell products like hamburgers, chicken wings, nuts, and bacon. Also Many beef farmers don’t like minorities and I’ve heard that the Bread companies are rounding up their LIBERAL troops and will soon introduce the SNITKA diet where all you do it eat bread all day long.
Viva la resistance!
There’s a whole class of Liberals who wouldn’t be caught near the Atkins Diet - the animal-loving vegetarians. That could account for a lower number, assuming the premise is true.
Yeah, that’s pretty much what I thought, too. I think that a great majority of vegans and vegetarians are probably liberal, therefore Atkins would not be a good idea for them. Also, while I’m painting with a wide brush (:)), I’d say that conservatives, on the whole, are more ready and willing to go against government recommendations, and more willing to believe that the government could be wrong about something (I’m referring to the government’s recommendation of a low-fat, high-carb diet, which Atkins directly flouts).
I realize these are gross generalizations, and that not all liberals or all conservatives fall into, or even necessarily close to the parameters I’ve just depicted. I’m also not positive that Atkins is so much more popular with conservatives. All I’m doing is having fun making WAG’s.
One of the liberals I know on the diet is actually vegetarian. I think she just eats a lot of soy.
Wow. Atkins himself does not recommend this. (He doesn’t say it’s unhealthy, just not varied enough to be sustainable for life).