Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption primarily for weight control. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats.

Potatoes got a bad reputation with the popularity of low-carb diets. Does that really mean they are bad for your health or your diet? Find out if potatoes are good for you or bad for you.

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Succinct article about the "truth" about carbs and low-carb diets. It's the number of calories, amount of activity, and the kinds of carbs and proteins that you eat that are most important. Kind of like it's been said a thousand times before.

Gary Taubes, an investigative science journalist whose new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories attacks the idea of low-fat, high-exercise dieting as scientifically unsound and unsupported by empirical research, tracing the idea back to a nutritional fad that arose 50 years ago.

It's hard to keep a bad diet down. Doctors at Stanford University Medical School published a year-long study last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association comparing four popular diets, from low-carb to low-fat. Once again, the Atkins diet won.