The vegetarian (vegan?) you are referring to is Christopher Gardner. He’s doing the diet x genotype study to see “if there is a genetic predisposition to being more successful in weight loss on a Low Fat vs. a Low Carb diet.”

I refered specifically to Boston Children’s Hospital Study. It’s primary endpoint is actually energy expenditure, not weight loss. The same goes for the third study, by Kevin Hall et al.

No it hasn’t. Here’s the study that proves it does not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAQr77QMJiw

Which one of the three are you talking about? There’s three studies and if my memory serves me one of the studies is being run by a vegetarian who is hoping to prove Attia and Taubes wrong. Attia and Taubes have brought together a “team of rivals” so to speak. The only requirement being that the studies authors are rigorous in their controls and repeatable. I have an idea of why the study participants calorie intakes would be lower but I’m curious which one you are referring to.

Mike, have you actually read the study protocols for the NuSi experiments? If so, you must have notised how they will make the subjects lose weight: by lowering their calorie intake by ~40 % below their energy requirements! The weight loss diet will have “45% carbohydrate, 30% fat, 25% protein; 40% below subjects’ calculated caloric needs for weight stability, minimum 1,200 kcal (“calories”) per day” (In free-living conditions..). How is that going to answer anything?

About Taubes, as already linked above:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-hypothesis-of-obesity.html

And again: I lost weight in the exact way you said was impossible. And I have kept it steady for six years, still eating carbs.

You are right. However, how can you argue with a religion? 🙂

Exactly.