This review has just been published in the American Journal of Cardiology.
The abstract is quoted verbatim below.

The Diet-Heart Hypothesis: A Critique
Sylvan Lee Weinberg, MD, MACC
Dayton, Ohio

The low-fat "diet heart hypothesis" has been controversial for nearly 100 years. The low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, promulgated vigorously by the National Cholesterol Education Program, National Institutes of Health, and American Heart Association since the Lipid Research Clinics-Primary Prevention Program in 1984, and earlier by the U.S. Department of Agriculture food pyramid, may well have played an unintended role in the current epidemics of obesity, lipid abnormalities, type II diabetes, and metabolic syndromes. This diet can no longer be defended by appeal to the authority of prestigious medical organizations or by rejecting clinical experience and a growing medical literature suggesting that the much-maligned low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may have a salutary effect on the epidemics in question.
(J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:731-3) © 2004 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation

The full article is available here: http://www.lowcarbportal.com/docume...ebyWeinberg.pdf

(This good doctor was president of the College of Cardiology. He has been around since 1950 and had a great deal of influence.)

Credits: Barry Groves, PhD, for sending me the file, Dr Weinberg for allowing me to publish it.