McKusick A
Tanzania
Review Article
A Call for the Definitive Diet Study to End the Diet Debate Once and for All
Author(s): Fleming RM, Fleming MR, McKusick A, Ayoob KT, Grotto DW and Chaudhuri TKFleming RM, Fleming MR, McKusick A, Ayoob KT, Grotto DW and Chaudhuri TK
The current level of "discussion" on these diets by many people reminds me of elementary school children fighting on the playground during recess. Ms. Michaels efforts to bring some intelligence to this discussion is different.
Despite the constant arguments about, you cannot honestly call any of this a debate or intelligent discussion, between the low carbohydrate diets and the other types of diets proposed by the diet pundits, there is little if any new or useful information. Study after study show if you change the way a person eats, they can lose weight; big deal! These same studies use changes in blood tests to support the benefit they have for reducing heart disease. These studies exclude people whose cholesterol and other blood tests for inflammation go up, thereby making the results look better, while criticizing other studies for not agreeing with them... View More»
