I’ve already written this in a comment ,but I thought I’d post again, because I’m fascinated with the extent to which people will insist on maintaining unproven theories.

The author writes that in order to lose weight, one has to reduce calorie intake. This has been intensely disputed over the past several decades, but we now have long term proof the author is right. How do we know?

The effects of weight loss drugs.

There is one of about 9 or 10 drugs that alleges it works by absorbing fat. There is little evidence of this, and what evidence exists is rather ambiguous.

But most people don’t take that drug. Most people report - and we have studies involved more than a year of consistent evidence of this - that the drugs work by reducing hunger and people lose weight because, as a result, THEY TAKE IN FEWER CALORIES AND THUS LOSE WEIGHT AND MAINTAIN THE LOSS (as long as they keep taking the drugs - if they don’t, their hunger increases, they take in more calories, and they regain the lost weight)

The beautiful thing about this is that it’s completely irrelevant what ratio of carbs, protein and fat they take in.

I predict that several lo carb folks (why is it the lo carb folks who are most resistant to simple logic and evidence?) will write in to dispute this, and in the attempt to do so, will end up unwittingly proving the point made here.