You make valid points as ever REDLAN. I guess it is easy to misinterpret any critique as being negative, when you do in fact seem to be just casting an unbiased eye over the article. As we have discussed before, the research is sadly lacking in definitive diet studies.
Couple of counter-points... Westman does clearly state
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The diet is not easy for everybody. "This is a therapeutic diet for people who are sick"
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...which I read as contrary to the idea that he it is overplaying the result.
And while you are of course correct that, "the best diet is the one that produces the best long term weight loss, and is the easiest to stick to" -- all other measures of success being equal -- the Cochrane Collaboration review did find a significant improvement for Lipids (at least HDL and Trigs) in the low-carb trials. Surely that alone puts it at an advantage over low-fat?
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It does seem that weight of "evidence" in the media and health establishment etc... is heavily stacked against low-carb eating. Perhaps this is why we jump on articles such as this; as proof of what many of us have already found to work for us.
