Great article. Been trying to eat healthier since I've started using Roca Labs to lose weight. The low glycemic diet as the best option. Would try that out. Thank you.

Well I'll keep it nice and sweet.
First) read the book...Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes
Second) read his earlier book...Good Calories Bad Calories (Very Detailed and wll written)
Third) Watch the movie FatHead
Once reading these and watching these you'll be well informed and lay your head to rest and realize that low carb's is the way to go.
Also one should ask themselves has the human body changed over the past 10,000 yrs or has the food industry changed over the past 10,000 yrs or should I really be saying over the past 100 yrs? Problems that only run crazzzzyy over this past 100 yrs.
Hope this helps and you enjoy the reads

The fact is that the Mediterranean diet has years if not decades and centuries of proof that it promotes long life. Atkins methods have only been in place for a short time. Rebound weight gain is well established if one goes off track but there is no long term data to prove that it matches or exceeds the long term benefits of the Mediterrranean or for that matter other diests such as oriental.

You can defeat a lot of laws except the laws of physics and chemistry. As quoted before a calorie is a calorie. Simple chemistry in terms of weight loss so stop fooling yourself that there is some magic at work. Reduce yor intake and increase metabolic rate, pure and simple.

What can be debated is the long term health effects of varios diets and this is not established and will not be until we have several generations of data.

Uhh the title of the article and the contents are too different topics.
Title says best diet for weight loss but it's actually not about losing weight but not gaining weight AFTER you've lost it... Great article.

I follow the meal plan for the South Beach Diet, I find it extremely satisfying and delicious. It also recommends hummus, couscous, and includes a LOT of Mediterranean dishes. You are not on the no-carbs phase for long if you follow it strictly, you can start at Phase 2 and then go on to Phase 3. Being on Phase 1 for two weeks usually helps me lose anywhere between 6-10 pounds, but Dr. Agatson stresses the importance of not being on Phase 1 for more than 2 weeks at a time.

The G.I diet or lifestyle is so simple and easy to follow..... no major lifestyle changes just sensible eating....the weight just melts away with no effort or exercise.
I have lost 48 lbs in 8 months. I recommend " The GI Diet" by Rick Gallop as a must read!

Sorry Joe, but this study actually proves the opposite of what you say, that its all about Calories in versus Calories Out. In fact it proves that everyone should be listening more to Gary Taubes. Why this article comes to the conclusion that the Mediterranean Diet is best after looking at a study that obviously shows that Low-Carb is best is beyond me. Is the world so afraid to change the paradigm on obesity research? Is it because of the effect it would have on the Food Industry and Fitness Industry? The Fitness Industry alone is a 16 Billion dollar industry that seems to rely on people not changing their body composition, because if they did the would no longer need all the gimmicks that the Fitness Industry puts out there. I won't even get started on how much money is involved in the Food Industry who rely on wheat and other grains (the largest crops in the Gross Domestic Product) of a lot of Western Countries.

I read the study and my conclusion is that the low carb/high fat diet is superior. Control of postprandial glucose level is vital for health.. This was not measured in the study. The high fat diet had lower TG and higher HDL which is good. The TG:HDL ratio is a good marker for presence of sdLDL, the lower the better. Looks like saturated fat is good after all.

It's simple folks...Calorie in, calorie out. Eat less and exercise more. Eat REAL foods.

So the study clearly says that a very low carbohydrate (essentially the Atkins diet) results in the greatest weight loss, yet the author and the researchers go to incredible lengths to down-play this and recommend the Mediterranean Diet as the "optimum" diet instead (with zero evidence to base this on). Frankly, your conclusion does not follow from the data. I know it really, really pisses off the scientific community to admit that Atkins was right all along. But now is time for you to put on your big boy shoes and do what all scientists were supposed to do: follow the evidence (not the money, and certainly not your biases). Try engaging the rational part of your brain for once in your life (if at all possible), and maybe people won't think your a total joke. 30 years of recommending low-fat diets on weak data, and then the truth smacks you in the face yet you still can't see it. Somewhere, Galileo is weeping.