I have two sisters who are two years older than me. Both eat very low fat. I've been off and on LC (mostly on) for nine years. I saw my sisters this summer and I just kept thinking about how terrible their skin looks. I tried not to stare, but I couldn't help it. My skin is fine. Maybe it's the two years difference, but I doubt it.

1. Anecdotal evidence
2. Confirmation bias
3. Hasty Induction fallacy

Tanizaki, since this is a forum and not a peer reviewed medical site, of course you are going to get anecdotal evidence. What is your point?

mmm, so what if it's anecdotal? you do realize, of course, that all studies start with this?

As a former medical editor, I don't give much weight to half of the clinical studies out there, and have spoken to clinicians around the world who admit that anecdotal evidence is often as reliable.

Tell me then, how can someone 12 years older look younger than I did those 12 years ago? I've been sicker in between those years, less active, more stressed, and yet I can hold up the pictures and see it myself. Only thing that's changed is low carb.

You can believe what you want, but I guarantee you it's the fats.

That anecdotal evidence proves nothing. Like I said, it's great for forming a hypothesis, but you can't go about saying, "I am a LCer with great skin, and I know non-LCers with bad skin, so LC must give great skin".

The word "anecdotal" only seems to enter the conversation
when the anecdotes are not going the right way. "Being fat
ages most people" is anecdotal. Unless you know of studies
which are not based on subjective and cultural perceptions.

But it is true that without a stated mechanism, proof is hard
to establish without exhaustive and rigidly controlled testing.
Once a mechanism is discovered though, original causes can
often be deduced. Quite often it becomes intuitively obvious.

However I don't believe that cosmetic age due to one diet or
another can be evaluated in either of those methods. That is
so dependent on subjective input that only the dieter is able
to make the judgment. They must perceive the improvement.

Yes, I do. That's probably why I said, "anecdotal evidence can be used to form a hypothesis".


Wow, thank you for anecdotal evidence to support the proposition that anecdotal evidence is worthy. The irony is delicious.


To your knowledge, the only significant thing that has changed is the LC factor of your diet.


You can guarantee nothing of the sort.

Sure, you're smarter than my nephrologist, cardiologist and GP.

LMAO.

bye

I win again, fans!

So you admit you are more interested in who is right than you are in what is right?

You have 16 posts to your credit, I think I've read about 4 so far. They've all been rather snide, snarky, insulting, arrogant and so on. Do you actually have anything to contribute or are you just here to test our patience? This is a message forum. Sometimes people just shoot the breeze here. This isn't a peer reviewed medical journal.

Relax!

I did previously link to a specific study with information on carbohydrates and their effect on collagen. It happens to give valuable medical insight to the anecdotes. Where you ignoring it on purpose?

Since eating Paleo, I believe I look younger, as I look healthier (because I am). I didn't do it to lose weight, so I don't think it's the weight loss that caused me to look younger - I didn't really have a lot to lose when I really got into Paleo WOE.

fat keeps our body, our skin, our organs supple.
fat keeps the movement going in the intestines... hence you don't need fiber as BTaubes has stated in GCBC.

there are all kinds of reasons to eat fat, and anti aging is definitely one of them.

Because losing weight does not account for the healthy glow I now have that people always comment on and my hair went from pitiful looking to gorgeous.