Shaun Perry, diets and snake oil.

Quick question here for the fitness gurus......
Shaun Perry seems to have lost a fair amount of blubber to keep his place as England's 9. Reading in the press that he was prescribed a diet by one of England's fitness staff Matt Lovell. Perry was put on a diet of no carbs and supplements.
Now, I'm no expert although my own training/diet regime saw me complete an Olympic distance Triathlon in 2.20 {stay out of this mg, you're not equipped}, but the up to date word on the street, backed up by many huge studies is that the Atkins diet is a complete load of ***. Weight loss is a simple equation of calories in, V calories out, that is scientific fact, if big companies could make money out of it we'd hear nothing but this. However, the 'mad' idea of eating less and using more calories just doesn't have that commercial attractiveness that a paperback telling you how to cut out the chips did.....
I digress.
The point is. Why are England using someone that believes in 'woo woo' {make believe} diets? And why, when there is now so much evidence against supplementing vitamins and minerals is Lovell exacerbating the situation?
Worse still, Perry is entering a phase of high competition, a period when he'll need his full fitness and he won't get that by cutting out carbs, the fuel your muscles use. It's too late to suddenly start laying on the pasta: your body takes time to build up glycogen reserves to their full amount, he's started competing every week, and I guarantee you he'll be shagged half way through the pool games. And it'll be Lovell's fault, and I, a half baked ex-triathlete knew better.

So if the RFU can get that wrong, what else do they get wrong?
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