NY Times - Avoid Carbs, Lose More Fat

GreatDepression

"People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/health/low-carb-vs-low-fat-diet.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&_r=1

I bet this article is going to piss off a lot of you.

MinimalistShoeAddict

I read the article. Even if all the facts asserted are true (who knows how carefully the 150 participants actually followed their assigned one year diet as instructed), correlation does not prove causation.

A study like this can never disprove calories in vs calories out because calories were not counted! Caloric intake very well could have been lower in one group than the other, because participants were specifically asked not to count calories!

The most we can learn from this article is that different macro nutrient breakdown, may have a different impact on the ability to satiate. Nobody is disputing that, but caloric deficit/surplus is still all that matters for weight loss/weight gain.