The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a researcher presenting actual diet-study results, including a trial with 311 women on different diet books.
What it is
Stanford's Christopher Gardner presents his large, long comparison of four popular diets under real-world conditions, in which the lowest-carbohydrate Atkins diet came out on top.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2010 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Recommends jackchristopher · 2010-01 · on “UCSF Endocrinologist debunks "Calories In / Calories Out" Model”
To steal a line, dietary science is younger than it looks. Don't be surprised if decade spanning long held beliefs start collapsing. Another good video. Stanford nutritionist and self-described vegetarian admits benefits of low carb diets: [this video]
Recommends scholia · 2017-07 · on “Sugar-sweetened drinks with protein rich meal affect metabolism”
There's a good (old) talk where Stanford's Christopher Gardner researched different diet books with 311 women. The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?) [this video] The study was announced at [LINK]
Cites backprojection · 2012-04 · on “The Crisis in American Walking”
> High fat/high sugar foods offer the most calories/dollar. So what? Well, the theory is that cheap vegetable oil and sugar causes these metabolic disorders which then causes obesity. >Taubes' insulin theories have been debunked by experiments. They're not his theories. He makes the point repeatedly in GCBC that they form part of modern, standard biochemistry. The only controversial points that he makes is that they should be applied to obesity research. > Taubes' insulin theories have been debunked by experiments. what are those experiments? My understanding is that carbohydrate-restricted diets generally fare better in terms of weight-loss, muscle-maintenance, and improvements in risk fact
Cites toasterlovin · 2016-09 · on “Ask HN: Where do you go for learning about health and well-being?”
I haven't stayed up to date on the nutrition science stuff much, but there are studies showing that low carb, high fat diets (paleo, essentially) are better than the opposite. Here's a researcher presenting the results of their study as well as discussing several others[1]. Their study had 311 subjects, but most of the other studies the researcher mentions have extremely small sample sizes (one of the common problems with many nutritional science studies). Exercise science is really kind of a joke, though. The Starting Starting Strength community does an annual review of the year's important exercise science studies. Almost every single one is not capable of actually testing the stated hypot