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Old Sat, Jun-30-12, 11:17
HappyLC HappyLC is offline
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Originally Posted by M Levac
But the clip title is "Low Carb vs. Plant-Based". So, to keep with the subject, here's a list of 16 experimental studies that compares low-carb to other diets:
http://www.dietdoctor.com/weight-lo...ing-the-science


None of the diets in those studies was vegan, and all are around 30% of calories from fat - a far cry from the "no animal products, no added fat" diet of the people in the video.

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Originally Posted by M Levac
But then, the list of 16 experimental studies also allows us to make up our own mind, however it does not allow us to imagine a falsehood, namely that "If these guys follow their own diet... Their pictures speak a thousand words." The falsehood is that if they do follow their own diet, then that's why they are fat. That list doesn't allow this falsehood because when they put fat people on the same diet those fat gurus presumably follow, they lost more weight than on any other diet.


But the diet in question, that of Esselstyn, McDougall, etc., was not studied. So, it's a falsehood to say that "they lost more weight than on any other diet."
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