Well IMHO GI/GL diets are a pale imitation of a real reduced carb way of life, but there is no rule to say you can't combine the two by selecting low GI foods as the ones to add as you approach maintenance, as long as you still count the carbs!.

This article contains the same old garbage about health concerns, the same baseless conclusion from recent studies that after 12 months the weight loss differences were insignificant (low carb dieters lost 60% more!!) It also says that low carb dieters dropped out because they couldn't handle the restrictive nature of the diet - there is NO evidence for this AND they 'neglect' to tell you that in all of these studies more people dropped out of the low fat control groups than the low carb groups. (One of the problems with any long term diet study is that some people will not stick to a plan - any plan. This is a fact of life).

You have to be more than a little suspicious of the motives of any promoter of any weight loss/health strategy when they resort spreading misinformation about competing theories. If anyone is interested you can find a discussion of my interchange with Professor Brand-Miller (one of the promoters of GI/GL) here;

http://www.theomnivore.com/low_GI_vs_low_carb.html

Cheers,

Malcolm