A recent study, published in the July 17, 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, has generated headlines that may lead the casual reader to believe that a low-carbohydrate (animal-food based) diet is the healthiest and most effective way to lose weight and lower cholesterol. The Atkins Research Foundation funded the study. They also promoted the results to the media and slanted the interpretation to suggest the Atkins diet was vindicated. Most of the media bought this nonsense.
The study compared people who were counseled to follow three mediocre diets with little difference between the three. All the study did show was that all three of these diets failed to generat[...]