Eliza - thought you looked better on your latest album cover, good for you!

If you think about it, as human animals we were designed to eat and use effectively, meat, nuts, seeds, leaves, roots and fruits. It's only the last 2-3 millenia that we have started to process our foods, and so far our evolution hasn't caught up with it. Atkins takes you right back to the caveman diet, with the odd 'modern' additive like cheese, a diet where we used our energy but didn't have so much to store. What we store now is so much sugar that we never had, the processed grains that would have passed through our systems practically undigested (seen sweetcorn?).

I would suggest that that is one of the reasons I've had so much more energy this year, and why I've even contemplated walking to the station instead of taking the bus! I've even taken up serious singing again and stunned myself that after a year doing nothing, can still reach my normal range with room to spare at each end. I'd go so far as to say that Atkins is a singers' diet!

LTS