Low-carb, high-fat diets add no arterial health risks to obese

Good news, I would say:

Low-carb dieters showed no harmful vascular changes but also on average dropped 10 pounds in 45 days, compared to an equal number of study participants randomly assigned to a low-fat diet. The low-fat group, whose diets consisted of no more than 30 percent from fat and 55 percent from carbs, took on average 70 days, nearly a month longer, to lose the same amount of weight. [...]

However, Stewart does contend that an overemphasis on low-fat diets has likely contributed to the obesity epidemic in the United States by encouraging an overconsumption of foods high in carbohydrates. He says that high-carb foods are, in general, less filling and that people tend to get carried away with how much low-fat food they can eat. More than half of American adults are estimated to be overweight, with a body mass index of 26 or higher; a third are considered to be obese, with a BMI of 30 or higher. 

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Weight of the Evidence - Blast from the Past

"The diet compositions of each group, each consuming 1800-calories per day, were:

• Group A = 115g protein (25.5%), 104g carb (23.1%), 51.4g fat (51.4%)
• Group B = 115g protein (25.6%), 60g carb (13.3%), 122g fat (61.1%)
• Group C = 115g protein (25.5%), 30g carb (6.7%), 135.5g fat (67.8%)

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Let's see what happened...

• Group A lost 11.5kg (25.3 pounds)
• Group B lost 12.78kg (28.11 pounds)
• Group C lost 16.18kg (35.6 pounds)

Are you scratching your head yet?"

Full article here:
http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/2006/02/blast-from-past.html