It may be South Beach's shy sister--and our healer...

Have started reading up on this. I find it interesting that a lot of the foods pushed on this "diet" are the same ones I have instinctively headed toward during my own health troubles. Now that the holiday food madness has passed, time to get back on South Beach (I never left it totally, just was inclined to sample a few sweets). I may be able to incorporate some of this into my own diet.

This also may explain how some people plateau and can't get lower.

( Is leptin resistance another clue? )

My specialist used to test for leptin, but stopped because there wasn't anything to be done for leptin awry. If this diet can work for people with chronic inflammation, I'll bet she starts testing for this again.