Anthony Colpo Rawks!
UPDATE: The comments were just too good to take this down, but I do not want to be part and parcel to internet spoofing which is apparently what went on here. So in case you don't read the comments, I want to make it clear: Anthony Colpo did NOT sign the petition. This was an impostor.
Anthony signs Gary Taubes' petition.
LOL is all I can say!!
Anthony signs Gary Taubes' petition.
Name: Anthony Colpo on Jan 9, 2012
Affiliation: anthonycolpo.com, avid cyclist and bodybuilder
Comments: Oh yeah, carbs rock for training hard, but I learned from Gary's tutoring that all I really need for training is to not exercise too much or I would one day get fat from all the activity induced hunger.
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I second your recommendation. Even if one is initially put off by his language and his aggressivenss, his posts contain loads of insights and are always worth reading.
I had previously read his book on cholesterol, which is the best book on the topic, and so I immediately became an avid reader once I discovered his site, and like you I visit Colpo's site much more often than Eades.
As Stephan Guyenet once pointed out, Colpo, unlike many other health writers/bloggers actually has carefully read the studies that he sites.
I really liked Fat Loss Bible. He recommends much more protein than PHD, even for someone who is "low activity" like me (though I don't consider 30 minutes a day all that low, but he's an athlete). Not sure where to land, probably somewhere between, trading some PHD fat for protein. His food list is very similar to PHD.
His blog is great.
E.g., his spat with M Berkhan (re: IF) wasn't in the least enlightening. While I dislike how Berkhan promotes IF and fasted training as one-size-fits-all awesomeness, he is a superb writer and a very cool guy. AC's responses to him didn't help me understand why IF/fasted training fail miserably for me, so much as come across as saying, "nananana, you so damn wrong, 'tarded m*f*er!"
Sure, Evelyn does a lot of editorializing, but--maybe someone can describe the difference better for me--it's not like AC's formula of 1 part science + 2 parts shtick...which frankly, I don't think those of us without the background should get too comfortable with.
Word.
Watching AC spar is like a MMA showdown. Colpo vs Eades was classic. Make popcorn and enjoy the bloodshed.
AC is taking the p**s out of the sententiousness of GT. I have not seen in AC's stand-up that he has any particular one-cause theory of weight gain or loss.
AC is encouraging this to see if there will be an outbreak of hostilities in blog-land.
I would guess he is rubbing his hands in glee - another row coming up.
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I just LOVE the idea that in demotic Greek colpo can mean "bosom, lap, bosomlike hollow, womb" or .........
Eh, Yer gorra laff, right??
It's funny, Mike Eades is on a diet again this year to lose some holiday pounds. He's eating small amounts of food. Ahhh gotta love that metabolic advantage.
Nasty Anthony vs. Angry Dick was a classic too!
First comment from a long-time lurker ;)
Thanks Evelyn for great blog! Lots of great articles, no wonder you have succeeded in gathering here some of the brightest commentators in health blogosphere!
He can be that brash and confident because he's so thorough in his research and careful in his presentation. A person who is crass and boastful but easily refuted becomes boring in spite of how hard he tries to entertain, because the attitude is used to mask the inferiority of his position. Anthony's crude and demeaning approach is effective because he knows he's got the upper hand and is flaunting it.
There's a reason that so many of his critics prefer not to engage him, and most seem to want to pretend that he doesn't exist at all anymore. Perhaps he can sign his future posts as Anthony "bogey man" Colpo!
I also appreciate that he does not allow comments on his blog. I prefer that to people (like JMoore) who filter their comments. He just keeps all of the crap out and lets his style control the discussion.
There's cultural and individual aspect where in some cultures needling and provocation is OK until one side explicitly insults the other.
I'm a lot like AC but in a different way - when I've responded less than politely it's almost never to explicit insults but to an endlessly, verbatim repeated or droning mantra (IOW ceaseless sloganeering in lieu of thought or argument).
Sounds like Durianrider the vegan!
See, therein lies my discomfort. How many of us are sufficiently well-versed in the science to afford being less than 100% vigilant in reading stuff like AC's? When I read blogs, I don't want to think that I should fact-check them incessantly. But with AC, I don't think I'm the only one who could get so carried along with his flair and antics that I'd be totally caught unawares if he ever tried to pull anything funny.
Just curious--who here has been following AC since his VLC days? Did he write with such self-assurance then? And how did he carry out the transition to his current views?
http://anthonycolpo.com/?p=2774
Ahh well, as funny as that was, the impersonation is a bit disconcerting even if done in keeping with something one might expect of Anthony. I'm glad he got a look at the nice things y'all had to say here about him.
His vaseline quip still has me cracking up.
Speaking of Jimmy, however, I wonder what type of blog platform he uses that allows him to alter comments. This is the most disconcerting thing about him. He claims that he lets all comments through unless they are derogatory which is simply not true. But whatever on that, I suppose, if only he would just let through the full and complete and unaltered comments that he does.
I've gotten into the habit of snapping screenshots of comments I try to leave on blogs that moderate just to make sure what gets published, if it does, is what I wrote. Lots of censorship out there. Hmmmm ... I could probably do a whole blog on CarbSane Censored! LOL At least Fred publishes all comments. :)
If Colpo comes, can Raz be far behind?
Raz is soooo bitchy & hi maintenance, I thought she was my ex - until I checked profile - then discovered "she was a he".
Talk about "walk on the wild side" - I happened on the "st(r)eam of conciousness" moments before you pulled his plug.
AC obviously has a low tolerance and little patience for BS, and I think his attitude is more than justified. Take a look at his latest reader mail response to "Nital" to see what I mean. While many might consider his response excessive, especially his first, I think that based on his frequently receiving such emails his response was perfectly acceptable.
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