Jane Galt has an impressive rebuttal to those in the blogosphere and out of it that are overreacting to the recent New York Times Magazine article suggesting that fat isn't nearly as harmful as carbohydrates. Jane has stood admirably firm on the matter, having done considerable independent research for an article she wrote for Salon. I am more or less in agreement with her. The problem isn't fat, per se. It's not sugar, either. It's both of them combined and consumed in unheard of quantities. Anyhow, read what she has to say because she says it a lot better than I do.

In her comments section, Fred Boness writes:

I have tried a number of diets over the years. The best strategy I have found is to pick two diets and follow them both simultaneously. I have found it is too hard to get enough food on just one diet.

It reminds me of an old joke that I used to have when I was a chubby kid whenever anyone told me to go on a diet. I don't know if I came up with it or I swipped it from the likes of Abbot and Costello, but it goes "I am on a diet. I'm on two, actually. One says I can have 1,200 calories and the other says 1,500. So I eat 2,700."

Badda-beeeesh!