MSNBC: The Man Behind the South Beach Diet
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By following the national guidelines for low-fat, high-carbohydrate eating, my patients were getting heavier, I was getting heavier, and the country was getting heavier. This was in the early 1990s. While we thought the new statin drugs were miracle drugs and might obviate the need for diet, it became clear that while being wonderful drugs, they only prevented about one-third of the heart attacks and strokes that we saw, and didn’t do anything about diabetes and obesity.
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