The Low-Carb vs. Low-Fat Debate: What the Research Actually Says

Introduction: The Diet War That Doesn't Need to Exist For the better part of four decades, carbohydrates and dietary fat have taken turns being the villain in the fat loss story. In the 1980s and 1990s, fat was the enemy — low-fat diets dominated, and "fat-free" became the most marketable claim in the food industry. In the 2000s and 2010s, the pendulum swung hard toward carbohydrates — low-carb and ketogenic diets surged in popularity, accompanied by increasingly bold claims about insulin, metabolic advantage, and why fat can't make you fat. The truth, as usual, sits somewhere between th…