Talk:Medical research related to low-carbohydrate diets

message: Should this article exist? It feels like it ought to be split among the history and general references for the Low-carbohydrate diet article, but I am happy to turn the debate over to those better qualified than me, I can recognise a can of worms when I see one :-)) FlagSteward 18:40, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 5 years later, no merge in sight. Although both articles maintain a facade of NPOV, the general tone of this article is anti-low carb diets, while the general tone of Low-carbohydrate diet is pro-low carb diets. A number of research items favorable to low carb diets are missing here, while a number of research items raising concerns are missing there. I propose that this article be used to flesh out the "Criticism" section of Low-carbohydrate diet, at the very least. Warning: A naive merge could end up near completely washing out the primary article, since there are plenty of studies that touch the surface of the topic and come up to contradictory conclusions. The other risk here is that the list of references may end up being longer than the article proper.  99.58.56.123 (talk) 21:58, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: FYI: I found this page:
:http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/users/jyelon/lowcarb.med/
It's not appropriate to reference directly since it is just some student's homepage but it appears to have a very detailed list of medical research. I have not gone through it all but if anybody is motivated to do so and look for articles that bear inclusion feel free to do so.
--Mcorazao (talk) 19:29, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good resource 

message: This page does not belong on wikipedia but is more suitable for wikibooks.--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:11, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: I don't understand why this phrase is in the article: "A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by the Cochrane Collaboration in 2002 concluded[56] that fat-restricted diets are no better than calorie restricted diets in achieving long term weight loss in overweight or obese people." The study compares low-fat with low-calorie diets, but the article is about low-carb. I think it should be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.43.73.164 (talk) 19:19, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Improper reference

message: I am a bit surprised that people study human diet using rat and mice. It seems to me absolutely grotesque. It is a bit like if we would like to study the effect of a purely carnivore regime on a cow or pure grass on a polar bear or a lion.
Everybody knows the answer: all of them would die. And studying all the cascade of horrible consequences due to this improper diet which cannot be metabolized properly is may be entertaining but has probably very little direct application to human patient. It it is not that we have to be carefull in generalizing as the author so, it is just that these studies are not relevant at all in this matter but pertain to fundamental zoology and understanding metabolic functions.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kervennic (talk • contribs) 19:08, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: How is it grotesque when rats and mice tend toward omnivorous diets? While both do largely eat vegetable matter, they also scavenge meat from carrion and eat insects on an opportunistic basis. Hence, your comment is both extremely POV, opinionated in a vacuum of fact and overall nonsensical, as rats and mice are well established medical models and what differences are present are extremely well documented. One may as well claim rats are a lousy model because they cannot vomit.Wzrd1 (talk) 01:11, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a warning about the validity of studies on rat and mice ? 

message: Content is intrinsic to the proposed target article Alexbrn talk|contribs|COI 16:41, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Low-carbohydrate diet]] 

message: Replaced links to article summarizing a comparison of LC and LF diets. The source is comparable to many of the sources linked to on the LC diet page.A low-carb high fat dieter (talk) 00:33, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The link looks like spam Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:55, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Undid Revert