Steam Is Coming Out of My Ears!
I've made it clear how I feel about Dr. Perkins calling his not-very-low-carb vegan diet "Eco-Atkins." Now comes this:
Subject: Dixie Diners' Club: Exclusive Home of Eco-AtkinsR
>From the beginning, Dixie was the leading
supplier to Atkins Nutritionals of lower-fat low
carb products. We were proud to have been their
largest third-party vendor. Most of the original
products were developed by Dixie for Atkins, and
continue to be manufactured and sold by Dixie
today. But it didn't stop there. Dixie continues
to develop better low carb products. Eco-friendly
is a new word for Dixie's original products. It
still applies today.
Based upon the recent studies showing the
substantial benefits of vegetarian-based low carb
eating, Dixie has adopted (and registered) the
moniker "ECO-ATKINSR" and will begin using it on
many of its low carb products.
Dixie has been eco-friendly since its beginning
more than thirty years ago. We will continue to
do so and welcome you as partners in good health,
good nutrition, and sustainable agriculture.
-- Bob Beeley, Chairman Dixie USA Inc. POB 1969 15555 FM2920 Tomball, TX 77377 281-516-3535 X101 FAX: 832-201-0765 Cell: 713-306-9999
I have occasionally used Dixie Diner products, particularly their "Instant Mashers," which substituted for the now-defunct Ketatoes. No more. I will not be buying another damned thing these people make. You can make your own decisions, of course, but this sort of grandstanding and coat-tail riding really pisses me off.
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Dixie Rant
Hi Dana and readers. I have to add my two cents here. Most of Dana's readers are trying to do the best we can to live healthy low carb lives. It's difficult when the mainstream nutritional information is so flawed and fraught with the results of ego and economic concerns coming before real science. I don't want to overstate it here because I am fully aware that there there are so many other terrible things we could focus on if we would. It is also, however, easy from your own computer on a relatively healthy day to underestimate the far reaching, pervasive and horrific impact of diabetes, obesity and the myriad of other diseases our mainstream way of eating has contributed to/caused in modern times.
Blogs like Dana's are one of the only current and useful sources of nutritional information that counter-acts all of this mainstream faux-science. I admit that it keeps me going back to the fridge in the morning for my eggs instead of throwing in the towel and downing a frosted coffee cake.
Dana is passionate enough to have made this topic her life's work and (luckily for us) she's far smarter than the average bear. We reap the benefits of her research and dedication and I know she makes a living at it too. I have repeatedly seen her choose the high moral ground in her writing -- even when she has to step out and say something for which I wouldn't have the courage. The difference between her making a buck in this line of work and the approach Dixie has taken I think fuels part of the rant above but mostly I think Dana knows better than most of us that this Dixie thing at a minimum muddies the waters and takes us back a few steps in the journey toward real nutritional science/information. At most it costs lives. While it might help a few who would not go with a meat based diet no matter what they learned, it will inevitable lead even more to try some hybrid version of a low carb diet -- meaning they will get more sick, cost us all more in healthcare costs and not reach their life's potential because they're so busy feeling lousy.
I say the topic warrants some expletives and I'd happily explain their use in this case to my 9 year-old. Thanks for ranting Dana!
Sally
I can't believe this
I'm still trying to figure out how they can get away with using Atkins' name. And now Dixie Diner's has registered it? I just think it's sad that Dr. Atkins good name has been connected to this kind a baloney in any way.
Amy Dungan
http://www.examiner.com/x-659-St-Louis-LowCarb-Examiner
www.healthylowcarbliving.com
www.lovinglowcarblife.blogspot.com
Relax Dana
Dana, relax!
We live in America, where everyone makes a buck off anyone else, if they can. Why should Dixie Diner's be any different?
Frankly, the Eco Atkins diet would make me terribly sick, since I cannot tolerate gluten, but who cares if Dixie Diner endorses them. For vegetarians not intolerant to gluten, "Eco-Atkins" could be a godsend for those who are prediabetic or even diabetic.
I guess I just don't get upset about this kind of stuff anymore.
There are so many sad things going on in my life right now, I'm learning to save my anger/sorrow for the bigger stuff.
Love your blog, Dana. It's not worth it to get upset over this. Look around you. Everyone rides the coattails of everyone else, it seems. If I stopped supporting the companies who do this, I would surely starve.
P.S. Vegetarian diets are HUGELY popular now. I imagine more companies will be hopping on the Eco-bandwagon now, to make a buck.
You can't live on protein
You can't live on protein alone, low-carb, low-fat. That's a recipe for rabbit sickness. At minimum you're not getting the fat you need in your diet and you'll have trouble getting your fat-soluble vitamins (and possibly some of your minerals, if Weston A. Price had it right). Quite aside from the diabetes risk, these things are all problems too.
I also take strong exception to the notion that vegetarianism/veganism is an ecological type of diet. Considering what it takes to raise huge amounts of plant food for almost seven billion people... no.
Dunno about the Dana who writes this blog, but I don't care what's popular. I care what's right. People who are wrong, even if popular, do not deserve to prosper. I can shop around the perimeter of my grocery store and don't need this stuff anyway.
Sheryl's got it right
I do enjoy your blog, but it bums me out to read this rant and I had to be careful not to let my 10yo read over my shoulder because of the language. Stuff like this happening is old news...I'm not even surprised by it.