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or you can head on over to the site, sigmautrition.com. So we are at episode 64 of

the podcast and today I wanted to address a question that came up in conversation with a listener

over email yesterday essentially asking are low carbohydrate diets more effective for fat loss.

Now I've written about this before, so I'm

going to pretty much raise the same points in this episode. So when we ask that question, we first

need to qualify what we mean by effective. So what exactly do we mean by this term effective?

Before I give my thoughts, I'm just going to read

out an extract from a piece by doctors Alan Last and Stephen Wilson from a 2006 paper that they

wrote and it sums up the state of things pretty well. So here is a direct quote from their paper.

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