Everyone:

While Gary's New York Times piece was quite good, he did another more revealing one for the journal SCIENCE last year called "The Soft Science of Dietary Fat." Basically, it details the history and shenanigans behind the USA's wholesale adoption of low-fat/high-carb diets (with the rest of the world following suit).

You can read the article online at Barry Groves' site http://www.second-opinions.co.uk Barry wrote the book "Eat Fat, Get Thin!" and has been a low-carber for 40 years.

Also, my round-up article on low-carb diets will be published in Australia and the UK later this year (still trying to find an American or Canadian magazine with the guts to publish it). You can read it now, however, at http://www.powerhealth.net/articles6.htm

I do have one criticism of Gary's NYT article: He did not emphasize enough the need to avoid certain fats like margarine and processed vegetable oils which have been shown over and over again to correlate strongly to cancer, heart disease, and other assorted illnesses. Still, it should make a "crack in the wall."

Sorry--still getting used to posting in this forum. The links should be:

http://www.second-opinions.co.uk

and

http://www.powerhealth.net/articles6.htm

hi there Dr. Byrnes,

"The Soft Science of Dietary Fat" is also posted right here in our Research/Media Watch forum ... http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...threadid=40182, if members wish to read it and post comments.

Your own article is great Thanks for the link.

Doreen

The thread cited above has a lengthy excerpt from the article. The full article is available at http://www.calbeef.org/index.htm

Happy reading!

Direct link to the article

Wa'il

thanks for posting the link to your article, Dr Byrnes. It's comprehensive and another good link to be able to offer folks.

With that and a good anti-diets research piece (say the Garner/Wooley article reprinted here ), a person would know just about everything she needed to.

I'm taking a human anatomy and physiology course right now, and the textbook (this year's edition) is still on the "eek, ketosis!" bandwagon. Ah well, one of these days they'll catch up.