Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study

Re:Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective ... by rhinoceraptor on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:48PM (#17789932)

This was not a low carb diet study. The lowest carb group were eating at least twice as many carbs as what any reasonable person would consider low carb.

Also, if you look at table 1, you can see the "low carb" group was the highest smoking, most diabetic, more male, highest hypertensive, and least exercising group. Is it really a surprise that these people have higher mortality?

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Re:Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective ... by gHosts on Sunday August 19, 2018 @05:44PM (#17796341)

> Participants completed an interview that included a 66-item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), modified from a 61-item FFQ designed and validated by Willett and colleagues,16 at Visit 1 (1987–89) and Visit 3 (1993–95).

Retrospective self reported questionaire.

Pah.

Around about the weakest evidence you can get as to what their actual diet was.

I would rate this study as "Junk Science".

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