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[carorees]

I spotted this article in Scientific American describing a proposed study by Peter Attia et al. to determine whether cutting out carbs leads to weightloss when the subject is apparently in energy balance.

Scientific American Reader: What Makes You Fat: Too Many Calories, or the Wrong Carbohydrates? http://google.com/producer/s/CBIwx6qJqAI

Don't hold your breath fit the results though..it's likely to take 3 years to complete!

That sounds like something that,s a worthwhile study.

I too am really curious about this.

I remember reading a study a while ago that compared low-carb with low-fat. The subjects had meals prepared for them so it didn't rely on reporting. In that case even more calories of low-carb led to more weight loss than the low fat diet. I will try to find a link.

Great that some research is being done into this.

Would love to see a link if you find one MaryAnn.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12761364

I found this but it wasn't the one i was thinking of.

and this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/opini ... s-fat.html , which describes this study: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.asp ... id=1199154

but also this response: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/healt ... ctive.html