Harvard anti-low carb "study" pole-axed

A 2010 Harvard study with the title "Low-Carbohydrate Diets and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality" purportedly found that:

Conclusion: A low-carbohydrate diet based on animal sources was associated with higher all-cause mortality in both men and women, whereas a vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality rates.

one to ridicule the "junk science" in this article is Dr Chris Masterjohn: The Daily Lipid: New Study Shows that Lying About Your Hamburger Intake Prevents Disease and Death When You Eat a Low-Carb Diet High in Carbohydrates

here is another - largely in laymans language: Brand-Spankin’ New Study: Are Low-Carb Meat Eaters in Trouble? « Raw Food SOS: Troubleshooting on the Raw Food Diet . its by celebrated demolisher of the China Study Denise Minger, who concludes:

Vegetarian - Will Ditching Meat Really Save Your Arteries?

Vegetarians and Heart Disease: Will Ditching Meat Really Save Your Arteries? « Raw Food SOS: Troubleshooting on the Raw Food Diet
by Denise Minger

To tackle this problem, the researchers nabbed a bunch of nationally-representative data from a USDA food survey project, which documented the results of two 24-hour diet recalls as well as answers to the question “Do you consider yourself to be a vegetarian?” Then they looked in detail at what the vegetarians versus nonvegetarians were putting in their mouths. Out of the 13,000+ folks in the study, 334—or about 2.5 percent—identified themselves as vegetarian. That figure jibes with the numbers offered by the Vegetarian Resource Group and other polls that peg the percent at 2.5 to 2.8 or so.

But here’s the kicker. Out of those 334 so-called vegetarians, almost two thirds were still guzzling meat on their diet recall days. And we’re not just talking pesco-vegetarians eating fish, either: The fake vegetarians averaged 80 grams of red meat per day, not terribly far from the 137 grams reported by the omnivores with the highest meat intake.

New USDA Dietary Guidelines: Total Hogwash, and Here’s Why

The New USDA Dietary Guidelines: Total Hogwash, and Here’s Why « Raw Food SOS: Troubleshooting on the Raw Food Diet

04 02 2011
 
A few days ago, the USDA finally unveiled their (fashionably late) 2010 dietary guidelines—the first update they’ve made since 2005. Are you as excited as I am? Can we live without bread yet? Leave the fat on our dairy? Ditch the rancid vegetable oils? Gobble down butter and coconut oil without fearing imminent death? By golly, has the USDA finally pulled its head out of the soybean fields and given us something useful, emerging as a reliable authority instead of a food industry puppet?

Nah.

"The China Study" (nutrition & disease) - debunked

article by Denise Minger on the China Study here:

http://rawfoodsos.com/the-china-study/

articles by Chris Masterjohn (Phd candidate) here:

http://blog.cholesterol-and-health.com/; and
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/

 The China Study is relied upon by many as strong evidence demonstrating the adverse health impact of  animal-based foods, and in favor of a vegetarian diet.  Linked below are commentaries that many believe invalidate the conclusions of the China study:

"The China Study is a 2005 book by T. Colin Campbell, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, and his son, Thomas M. Campbell II.[1] It examines the relationship between the consumption of animal products and illnesses such as cancers of the breast, prostate, and large bowel, diabetes, coronary heart disease, obesity, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis, degenerative brain disease, and macular degeneration.[2]

"The China Study" of the title is taken from the China-Cornell-Oxford Project, a survey that studied the relationship between mortality rates and the diets and lifestyles of 6,500 people in 65 rural counties in China. Described by The New York Times as "the Grand Prix of epidemiology," it was conducted jointly by Cornell University, the University of Oxford, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine over the course of twenty years; T. Colin Campbell was one of the project's directors. It was conducted in China because it has a genetically similar population that tends to live in the same way in the same place and eat the same foods for their entire lives.[3]

The authors conclude that people who eat a whole plant food/vegan diet, which avoids animal proteins such as beef, poultry, eggs, fish, and milk, will minimize or reverse the development of chronic diseases"