I just updated my list of high quality studies (RCTs) showing statistically significantly more weight loss with advice on low carb diets. Do you know of any exceptions? As far as I know low carb is winning 14 – 0.

How many studies like these do we need before the diet advice to overweight people are changed? It’s hardly reasonable to keep giving the advice that has been shown to be the least effective advice fourteen times over.

I’m having a debate in a Norwegian paper with some official “nutrition experts”. They claimed that weight loss studies do not show any advantage for low carb diets. Unbelievably enough, that is what many so called experts still believe.

It’s either ignorance or science denial.

There are at least thirteen [updated:16] modern high quality trials that have shown significantly better weight loss with low carb diets. Here they are: Continue Reading →

NY Times report on a new study showing faster weight loss on a low carb diet, and no sign of any harmful effects. The most interesting thing is that they still sound surprised, even though that’s what just about every modern study shows.

NYT: Eating fat, staying lean