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By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO - In the midst of the low-carb craze, a new study suggests that by
eating lots of carbohydrates and little fat, it is possible to lose weight
without actually cutting calories - and without exercising, either.

Sure whatever. Who *hasn't* been on a low fat diet? Low fat works for
very many people. Even discounting the real people it doesn't work for
because there's a similar number low carbing doesn't work for, the *big*
reason folks quit low fat plans is they feel constant hunger. If you're
one of the few who doesn't experience cravings on a low fat plan, stick
ith it.

All meals were prepared for participants, who were instructed to eat as much
as they wanted. They also were told to return any uneaten food, which the
researchers said enabled them to calculate calorie intake.

Prepared food to avoid cheating. Right. Do that with any plan and
it will work.

But the diet is more compatible with conventional notions of healthful
eating than the fatty, low-carbohydrate Atkins and South Beach diets.

So what? Who's to say that convential wisdom is correct? Like bleeding
George Washington to help him die more quickly. Conventional wisdom
gets stuff wrong, and eventually changes.

"The whole idea that you could lose weight without reducing energy intake
flies in the face of 100 years of data," Foster said.

As long as you carefully ignore the data from low carb studies that is.
The data from those studies doesn't make sense if you assume caloric
restriction is the be-all and end-all of weight loss, so the data gets
ignored.

American Dietetic Association spokeswoman Cindy Moore agreed and said with
low-carb diets hogging the spotlight, "it may be a reminder that we can lose
weight in a variety of different ways."

Everyone is different. No plan works for everyone. When you can
control all of the food someone eats the chances they'll lose is
higher on any plan. All truths.

The successful diet was not tested against Atkins and other low-carb
regimens, which contain more fat and fewer carbs than the control group
diet.

Very convenient that.