The Low-Carb Fraud by T. Colin Campbell

Author:T. Colin Campbell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781940363035
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Published: 2014-02-01T08:00:00+00:00

Here’s what the headlines should have read: “Three almost identically bad diets produce almost identically bad health outcomes.”

I cannot overstate the seriousness of this distortion of what constitutes a low-fat diet, or how common this distortion appears in scientific papers published by low-carb advocates. There have been three relatively recent reviews of the low-carb diet as compared with other diets, published in 2003,55 2006,56 and 2009,57 respectively. These summaries are quite repetitive, mostly including the same research studies, in which the subjects are generally overweight to obese. Each report concludes that, on average, low-carb-diet interventions generally result in some weight loss and favorable but variable changes in indicators of cardiovascular disease risk (conclusions that are highlighted in the abstracts, which provide the main and only information from these studies that most laypeople will see). And throughout this literature, we see the same misinterpretation of a “low-fat” diet and the same lack of diversity across diets repeated ad nauseum. “Low fat” is always approximately 30 percent fat (or higher), not the WFPB diet’s 10 to 12 percent fat. In these studies, both the control diet and the low-carb diet are high in animal protein and low in plant-based foods, making it very difficult to see the results we know exist when a much wider range of nutritional compositions are available for comparison.

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