Originally Posted by wbahn

But it is still bothersome that all of these "researchers" that "debunk" the low-carb approach rely on "evidence" that is not from low-carb lifestyles. They either use what can best be described as slightly-lower-carb diets (I saw one study where the lowest carb diet they considered was 200 g/day) and most of them are based on a few days to at most thirty days.

It's not like they don't know better, either. Look at nearly any study about most other things and they don't consider anything less than three to six months as providing meaningful data because it is well known that the body needs at least that long to materially adapt to most significant changes -- and changing the very basis of the fuel the body is burning should certainly count as significant.