Yeah, the anti-low-carb crowd calls this "anorexia" and lists it amongst the evidence that low carb is evil and dangerous. Apparently they believe if you're dieting you should be suffering. A wide streak of sadism in that point of view I think.

A few years ago there was an article in a newspaper - from Chicago? St. Louis? anyway somewhere with a large Polish immigrant community - about Kwasniewski's diet. There was a lot of traditional Polish food mentioned as I recall.