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Oh, my. Hello, you're listening to the Science of Everything podcast, episode 153, low carb diets.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So in this episode, we're going to conclude our three-episode arc looking at diet, nutrition, obesity and such.

And in doing so, we're going to discuss the evidence and research on the difference between low carb

versus low fat diets. Obviously there are a wide range of diets that people try to use to lose

weight or to maintain weight, but what we're going to do in this episode is focus on one of the

major contentions in the literature, which is essentially relating to the

macronutrient balance of an ideal weight loss diet. That is whether to go with the standard

recommendation of most health authorities around the world, which is to reduce fat and have

the large proportion of calories come from carbohydrates, or the alternative is to instead reduce carbohydrates

in the diet and have the large proportion of nutrients come in the form of fats and proteins.

So this is what I mean by a low carb diet. And the contrast, again, is usually the low fat diet.

So in this episode, we're going to discuss the theoretical basis of why people have

argued for the advantages of a low carb diet. So this is the carbohydrate insulin model of obesity.

And we're also going to talk about the ketogenic diet, which is a extreme form of low carb diet.

We're going to then discuss the evidence

for the carbohydrate insulin model and the advantages of low carb diet. So we're going to talk about

the evidence for physiological mechanisms and rodent studies and so forth. Then we're going to

move and look at dietary studies on humans. And we're also going to look at the specific claims

relating to the

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