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Basing a diet on nothing more than caloric intake doesn't give you the whole story... but this does.

I want to bury this as Lame, Spam, and Inaccurate all at the same time. Comparing subjects' results from two different studies, over 20 years apart??!! Complete and utter ***** throughout the site, it's laughable. I especially like the part about gaining 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks, by working out for 1 hour per week.

Dugg for the actual study data.

True carb-free diets are terribly unhealthy. But anything that might make a few people understand that eating fat doesn't make you fat (and eating low-fat doesn't make you not-fat) deserves a wider distribution.

This guy is the modern version of a snake oil salesman. Big claims with no proof to backup it up. 34lbs of muscle in one month only working out 8hrs for the month. BS. I want proof.
I believe Tim outsources the comment section of his blog. Ever notice there is never bad comments. Ever!
He does the same for his book reviews. Take a look at his book reviews. 5 stars all from 1st time reviewers. He is the rebirth of Aleksey Vayner.

I find it amusing that this is in the upcoming stories the same time an article about only eating natural foods is on the front page. I look at it like this: nature did not intend for you to get your vitamins and minerals from a powder, you're supposed to get them from fruits and vegetables. Eliminating fruits because "they have carbs" is silly.

Buried as spam, inaccurate, lame, etc.

I think this is quite a poorly thought out and backed up article, and I have some empirical evidence of my own.I lost 60lbs over 3 months last year, by restricting myself to 1500 calories a day and running 3 times a week. I didn't cut down or cut out any major food group, in fact, i'd say overall it was probably pretty balanced - I drank milk and ate bread daily and probably had an equal balance of meat and pasta for daily meals. Anyway - I never once felt tired(if anything I had more energy), I didn't obsess about food(more than was necessary for the purposes of keeping count) and I wasn't depressed(a lot happier to be losing the weight, a lot more confident). I know it's not entirely the same as what is presented in this article, but on a basic level the stories are at odds - although that wasn't exactly the reason I felt it was a load of unscientific nonsense, anyway.

Dugg because it's a very well researched article.