Fat in conjunction with carbs is bad. Pick one or the other. Do you want a low-fat carb laden diet or a fat based diet? I like fat better because it virtually eliminates sugar related disease processes while giving me a wonderful variety of tasty foods to eat-and it lowers my cardiac markers. The carb based diet would be also have to be natural food based-you still have to give up hydrogenated fats, processed sugars and flours , etc or you may end up with health problems like diabetes and heart disease. Personally, I know many people on the low-fat diet and I hate the frankenfoods they end up eating. My dad and cousin both had heart attacks before going low-fat, and even tho they've dropped weight, they continue to battle with high triglycerides and trying to keep HDL at healthly levels. My numbers were in the normal range after only four months! Pick your poison, but I think the answers you are looking for are in the first part of Dr. Atkin's book.