"Roger Zoul" wrote in message
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Daniel Hoffmeister wrote:

[...]

I found this statement (from
http://www.essentialnutrition.org/lowcarb.php)
interesting:

"An analysis of the diets of 2,681 people who are listed in
the National
Weight Control Registry found that fewer than 1 percent who
had maintained
at least a 30-pound weight loss for a year or more followed a
diet with less
than 24 percent of the daily calories from carbohydrates.6
Because so few
dieters following the Atkins plan were found in the registry,
the
researchers concluded that very low-carbohydrate diets do not
offer a weight
loss advantage over the long term (because only dieters with
long term
weight loss are admitted into the Registry in the first
place). "

Flawed Research -- Examining the National Weight Control
Registry to determine
effectiveness of a diet -- give me a break....

BJ

I'd be willing to bet money that one could find more than 27
people right
here in this newsgroup who have maintained a 30-pound weight
loss for a year
or more.

Also, 24% calories from carbs might be considered a low-carb
by those in
maintainence since the standard recommendations are typically
over 50%.

The nonsense will never cease.