I gotta say, whenever I hear about these low carb athletes, blog posts and such flickering through the feed reader and such ... I tune out. Why? Because almost invariably when it comes to touting the superiority of the low carb diet, the tent gets very large indeed. Anyone eating fewer carbs than the mythical "average" American consuming 500g/day is a low carber. Which is ridiculous on its face, but makes for great hyperbole to blame the carbs for obesity and all manner of evil in the world. In any case, when one looks a little deeper into the diets of these low carb athletes, they aren't really low carb at all.
I'm quite tired of this double standard applied by purveyors of low carb wisdom and light. You see if a study shows even the slightest benefit to LC over the rival diet, it is touted as further evidence of LC greatness, even if after more careful consideration, it was hardly a low carb diet after all. Yet that same diet fails to elicit the famed LC magic, and all of a sudden low carbers notice and point out that it wasn't really a low carb diet after all. Sorry. Can't have it both ways.
