Don Wiss wrote:

> Jean-Louis Tu posted:
>
> >Body weight and low-density lipoprotein
> >cholesterol changes after consumption of a
> >low-fat ad libitum diet.
> >
> >Schaefer EJ, Lichtenstein AH, Lamon-Fava S, McNamara JR,
> >Schaefer MM, Rasmussen H, Ordovas JM
>
> Knowing this study had been discussed on the lowcarb technical list I sis a
> search. I found:

Actually, the article you are referring to is very similar, but different from
mine. According to the abstract I gave,

>consumption of the low-fat ad libitum diet was accompanied [...]
>by mean triglyceride levels and TC/HDL-C ratio that
>were not significantly different from values obtained at baseline.

i.e. there is no improvement of the ratio, but the triglyceride levels don't
worsen. What is interesting, though, is that

>consumption of the low-fat ad libitum diet was accompanied
>by significant weight loss (3.63 kg)