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Heart-Healthy Diets Deciphered
Let me ask your opinion quickly on a controversy that we have talked about on this show before: the so-called Atkins diet, or the paleo diet. They get a lot of press, and there are many people who say, look, the only way I can really lose weight is if I focus on taking all carbs out of my diet and replacing them with protein. What is your current thought, because the data on those sorts of diets are mixed?Lies. Lies. Lies. The whole thing is misinformation Repeating lies for other doctors to repeat further.
Dr. Devries: There are no long-term data on either of those diets. The fact that over a period of a few months or even a year, you might have favorable impacts on some biomarkers, I don't think is the end goal. As clinicians, we are all interested in patients living longer and better; those are the endpoints that we really care about and that have not been shown for those diets.
