James Warren wrote:
Dogman wrote:

http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/ind...id=1&Itemid=17

"You could ask yourself if it really is good to recommend a low-fat
diet to patients with diabetes, if despite their weight loss they get
neither better lipoproteins nor blood glucose levels."

You could ask yourself other questions, too, like why they keep doing
it. Ignorance? Arrogance? $$$? Or maybe it's just that they fear
people calling them "loons" and "morons"?

Or getting charged with malpractice for prescribing a high carb diet to
people with a broken carb processing metabolism.

It takes strong evidence to overturn an established regime. Once LC is strongly
confirmed, if it is, and I think it will, there will be change.

"No statistically certain improvements, either of the glycemic controls
or the lipoproteins, were seen in the low-fat group, despite the weight
loss."

That's one of the two reasons Dr Atkins started down the low carb path
in the 1960s. He was a cardiologist who prescribed low fat to his
patients. The few who could conform to the medical advice saw their
numbers get better for a few months then get worse. By 6 months in
nearly all of them were worse off for having conformed to the prescribed
low fat diet. When he tried to publish his tablular results the paper
was declined because it was not double blind. How do you conduct a
double blind experiment comparing types of diets? The cost is
prohibitive even doing it in prisons.

The other reason is that he tried it on himself. He lost weight and as
long as he managed to stay low carb he kept it off. He spent decades in
his maintenance range near 100 grams per day.