Low-Carb Evangelist

Martin Berkhan across at leangains.blogspot.com has recently posted about the Low Carb Taliban.

Linking the Low Carb nutters to fundamentals is an excellent comparison. My favourite type is the Evangelist. Not content with sitting within their communities (google low carb forum, plenty out there), they have to go forth and spread their particular insanity around every other corner of the Internet.

Just looking through the commentary of Martins site shows there are plenty out there.

It's nice that they so believe in their lifestyle that they want to share the knowledge with everyone, but unfortunately like most zealots - there is no other way possible.

Any alternate evidence is dismissed without a second thought, never open to any critical analysis. The most extreme example hates all carbohydrate and are highly entertaining.

It doesn't help that the alternate group puts forward concepts like fat is more fattening than carbohydrate, and dismissing low carbohydrate all together.

Excluding the middle is always the best option for zealots.