Starchy diet 'may damage liver'

Another article worthy of skepticism, but with an interesting side effect.

"A diet rich in potatoes, white bread and white rice may be contributing to a 'silent epidemic' of a dangerous liver condition."

Here is the reason for skepticism.

We have not seen a true epidemic of liver disease, of which I am aware, related to fatty livers in adults with BMIs between 18.5 and 24.9 who have not been on a low glycemic diet all their lives.

Now for the far more interesting side effect:

"The study, carried out at Boston Children's Hospital, looked at the effect of diets with precisely the same calorific content, but very different ingredients when measured using the glycaemic index (GI)...

After six months on the diet, the mice weighed the same..."

Bottom line, no matter what you eat it is Calories in, Calories out.

Here the mice were fed different diets with the same number of Calories and they ended up the same weight.

That Law of Thermodynamics is pretty good, eh?

Trust it.

Not the experts.

Especially the clearly more crooked types, IMHO, like Cruise and Katz, NutriSystem, Sears and The Zone (there are more), who try to sell you diet products at a ginormous markup.

To read about the costs diet and exercise rip-offs, see here.

For a reasonable approach to losing weight and/or keeping the weight off, IMHO, see here.