Another paper from Virta

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13300-018-0373-9

I especially like these papers because a lot of "low carb" studies have obviously been tweaked, as the do not show anything like the results seen in all those "just anecdotes" we are all familiar with. When trigs do not drop through the floor and HDL does not increase there is something fishy going on.

The Virta studies show pretty much what we expect to occur.

Now that do you think will happen?

1) dieticians will studiously ignore this

2) they will condemn it

oh looks like #2 is already occurring

https://twitter.com/ProfTimNoakes/status/961339350935105538

trust A. McAsswipe as someone called him

Then there's this from 2003

The Effects of a Low-Carbohydrate Regimen
on Glycemic Control and Serum Lipids
in Diabetes Mellitus
DANIEL F. O’NEILL,1 ERIC C. WESTMAN, M.D., M.H.S.,1
and RICHARD K. BERNSTEIN, M.D.2

http://sci-hub.hk/10.1089/1540419031361345

Ok another anecdote

https://twitter.com/TroKalayjian/status/937988663090339840

on the other hand

https://twitter.com/ClaireBaseley/status/925672882868572161

oh and look what I got from Christopher Snowdon's website

https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=http%3A%2F%2Fvelvetgloveironfist.blogspot.co.uk%2F2017%2F12%2Fpublic-health-england-are-now-lying.html%3Fm%3D0

Virta Health CEO Sami Inkinen on changing patient behavior: 'We're cutting down trees in the wrong forest'

https://www.mmm-online.com/commercial/virta-health-ceo-sami-inkinen-on-changing-patient-behavior-were-cutting-down-trees-in-the-wrong-forest/article/746473/

Nicely put!

Frankly everything they do could be done for free, but I don't begrudge them making money if it means they can publish their results in a way that makes them hard to ignore. Basically they are converting anecdotes into data.