More anti-low carb nonsense from Big Pharma in order to sell their product, courtesy of PRLog:

PDF copy of press release available here: http://www.prlog.org/10304251-docto...your-health.pdf

Wow, what is this a new wave of ignorance-in-advertising? Did some unusually legitimate study validating LC just get published or planned?

very unhealthy, unbalanced people?

Ketosis and ketoacidosis is the same thing? Wow. Clueless.

This is an article written by someone who wants to sell you the fat burning supplements.

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Not a real article but sort of a viral marketing hype for the fat burner makers.

Yes, I agree, but the point is, people do read and believe these things and IMO it continues to perpetuate the various low carb myths and untruths that are out there.

These 'lies' are, in a large part, to blame for why low carbing is such a 'dirty' word here in the UK.

Funny how a google search of "Beth Conners, MD" ONLY brings up this article. Nothing else. Same for a search of "Doctor Beth Conners"

Looks like we have a sock puppet with a medical degree here.

^^ What Wifezilla said ...


The contact details for the above article ...
Note the contact email is xxxxxxx~burnfatsafely.com

I did a search for burnfatsafely.com, and see it's just a search portal for weighloss related products. When I tried to click the burnfatsafely.offerpg.com link in the article, my browser was redirected multiple times to the point where shut itself down .. and triggered an antivirus warning.


Doreen

If anyone actually believes this, they must be in a real quandary about which dishwasher soap to use because they all claim "no other dishwasher soap leaves yours as sparkling clean".

This is painfully, obviously, just an advertising spiel to anyone but the most unsophisticated reader. And anyone that unsophisticated probably no longer has a working computer, as it's been overrun with malware after clicking on every "Lose 10 lbs overnight" or "Make $1000 a day working from home" link they have seen.

me too....ugh!! this really just disgusts me.

Well I don't know about the UK, but here in the US these sorts of articles are a dime a dozen. Not specifically anti-low-carb, but touting all sorts of miracle things if you try the special product, or threatening all sorts of dire health consequences if you don't. They are so ubiquitous that to me they are just sort of a "white noise". Most of them are as poorly written as this one, though this one may even be a tad worse!

Couldn't crash Opera's browser with scripts off, but its just another acai berry scam site

I love your sense of humor

It's true what Merpig says. I've seen these types of ads, in American newspapers and magazines so often that they are white noise. They are usually labeled with a discrete "sponsored article" or something of that sort to let people know it's just advertising. However, they try hard to make it look like a real article, to lend an air of credibility to their trash. Thus the quote from a fake doctor. They are a dime a dozen and kinda all look alike. No one takes them seriously. I hope for their sake, otherwise they are probably bankrupt from buying swamp land in Florida.

It might be be that laws concerning advertising vary from country to country because I don't remember them being so prevalent in Canadian magazines, but it just might be that I haven't paid enough attention.