"But obesity specialist Claude Bouchard described low-carb diets as "a shotgun approach" at the Montreal obesity conference. Before such a diet is recommended to the public, he called for "hundreds and thousands of studies" that prove it is healthy and safe as well as effective."

Where are the hundreds and thousands of studies that prove low-fat is healty, safe and effective. Seems to me that I have been hearing an awful lot about the obesity epidemic in the US lately. Maybe I misunderstood.