Many of you have likely heard by now that there was a new study published in the medical journal "The Lancet", following 15,000 Americans over the course of 25 years, that is linking low-carb diets to an earlier death of the people following them than those eating a moderate amount of carbs in their daily diet.
Here is one of the many articles covering the story:
It even goes further than to just say that your diet should contain about 50% of energy from carbs, it also says that an abundance of animal fats and proteins seems to be especially harmful:
"When carbohydrate intake is reduced in the diet, there are benefits when this is replaced with plant-origin fat and protein food sources, but not when replaced with animal-origin sources such as meats."
This is the link to the full study:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30135-X/fulltext#
Here is one of the many articles covering the story:
It even goes further than to just say that your diet should contain about 50% of energy from carbs, it also says that an abundance of animal fats and proteins seems to be especially harmful:
"When carbohydrate intake is reduced in the diet, there are benefits when this is replaced with plant-origin fat and protein food sources, but not when replaced with animal-origin sources such as meats."
This is the link to the full study:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30135-X/fulltext#
