Is Low Carb Dead?
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that people on low carb diets were not at any higher health risk of developing heart problems than people with diets high in carbohydrates.
Researchers responsible for the study suggest that neither a low-fat diet nor a typical low-carbohydrate diet is ideal with regards to risk of coronary heart disease.
“This is an observational study, not a randomized trial,” said Dr. Neal D. Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C.
“We already have randomized trials of low-carb diets, and they clearly show that approximately one in three low-carb diets has a significant increase in LDL [bad] cholesterol. Such findings are far more relevant than observational studies to the question of what effects do low-carb diets have,” Barnard said.
