{"id":2178,"date":"2020-03-31T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowcarbaction.org\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2020-04-09T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:14:57","slug":"low-carb-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowcarbaction.org\/low-carb-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Low-Carb Studies The US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Says It Can’t Find"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jessica Wharton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) has only reviewed a small portion of the hundred or so rigorous clinical trials on low-carbohydrate diets. This grievous oversight became clear at the fifth and final meeting of the DGAC on March 12-13. Several committee members stated that in finding \u201cvery limited\u201d benefit in their preliminary review of studies with 40% of energy as carbs or less (which is not what most leading experts would consider a \u201ctrue\u201d low-carb diet), the committee could find no studies for \u201ctrue\u201d low-carb diets, with 25% of energy as carbs or less. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, L-CAN has identified 52 such studies, which the committee apparently chose to ignore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

L-CAN aims to make this science transparent and available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can view the studies here<\/a> or download a CSV here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this kind of information not of interest to the Dietary Guidelines, a policy whose entire aim is to prevent nutrition-related diseases in America? Excluding these studies amounts to withholding valuable information from the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears the DGAC managed to exclude all these studies by using inappropriate exclusion criteria. For example: <\/p>\n\n\n\n