I think that you need to accept that the data are not sufficiently conclusive for one to endorse low carb diets without reservation. That isn't to say that you won't be proven correct in the future.
**I certainly accept it. My main point in the post is that there are misconceptions. And I wasn't endorsing it for everyone, just trying to show that there's evidence that it may have a unique effect on body composition.
I'll mention once again that it would be very nice if one of the authors could take a moment to explain to us how the statistical conclusions were arrived at, although I realise that it's a lot to ask and that they are probably very busy guys.
**Yeah, that'll be a tough sell. It's one thing to question an author's methodology at an open conference--it's another to get him to explain how he did it on a message board. It's available in the study, which is what Bryan used to try to replicate it. But Volek and Kraemer are two of the most respected researchers in the field and the study was read by a committee of their peers (researchers at other universities), so I suspect they would have detected a glaring error of signficance had it been made.
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