army1987 comments on Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 2: Atkins Redux - Less Wrong

6 Post author: ChrisHallquist 30 December 2013 12:58AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 December 2013 05:20:45PM -1 points [-]

What is your evidence that losing fat is very good for people?

(Of course it depends on how much fat those people had before.)

Admittedly not terribly strong evidence, but see Figure 1 in this study.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 30 December 2013 05:53:23PM -1 points [-]

It doesn't look at the effect on mortality (if I read it correctly, it's at least using actual deaths rather than an estimate) of losing fat or trying to lose fat.