Why do all the authorities on diet advise against a low-carb diet?
This is a hard question to answer in a few words. My friend Gary Taubes, the acclaimed American science writer, has authored a 460 page book which answers this question. I highly recommend “Good calories, Bad calories” to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of what is wrong with the current nutritional approach. In short, the current recommendation to eat a majority of our calories as carbohydrates reflects the conventional wisdom that dietary fat is the cause of heart disease. Since there is a limit to how much of our daily energy needs can be obtained from protein, we are left to chose between carbs and fat. If you believe fat is harmful, then you are left with carbs as the main source of energy. As Gary documents in his excellent book, the science implicating fat in heart disease is not particularly sound. It may, in fact, be that carbs are the dietary villain, not fat. There have been a number of recent studies that have shown that people on a very low carb diet can
