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"randomly assigned to one of five different low-fat diet types" - so most combinations weren't tested at all?
by hellrich 16y ago
"randomly assigned to one of five different low-fat diet types"
- so most combinations weren't tested at all?
- chairface 16y agoThey types of diets are specified in the article.
- Vivtek 16y agoWhy in the world is this being downvoted? All of the five combinations they tested were low-fat. This is actually the point I wanted to make, too.
- rubashov 16y agoYes, the absence of a high saturated fat diet leapt out right away. That's what wins the clinical trial equivalents of this.
- Evgeny 16y agoVery true, the fist thing I wanted to look for - "how did my favourite high-fat, low-carb diet rate in this study? Oops, how are the results of any use then ..."
- SirWart 16y agoMaybe it's just overzealous copywriting, but it seems like all they figured out is that a low GI, high protein diet is better than the other combinations they tested, and are far from solving anything rigorously.
- niels_olson 16y agoOverzealous copywriting?! By a "science" journalist?! NO!!!! Here's the original article. I wrote a partial defense in another comment. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007137 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007137