Panaceia or Hygeia  immunize yourself against the pandemic of
lifestyle diseases  DIRECT. More obese liars.  Posted by Colin
Rose on July 16, 2008  We have already commented on a similar
diet study, A to Z. Again with DIRECT (DIetary RandomizEd
Controlled Trial) we have another attempt to prove the Atkins
diet is better but is really another demonstration of lying by
most overweight and obese people. Any study on diet and energy
balance that cannot first demonstrate that the First Law of
Thermodynamics is obeyed from self-reported data is totally
unreliable and unreproducible and should never be published.
While the data as presented are hard to interpret in terms of
detailed energy balance because daily energy intake and
expenditure is not reported, as it should have been, the
subjects claimed to be doing more exercise and eating less but
only lost 10 pounds in two years. The prescribed diets contained
1800kcal for men and 1500kcal for women. These values are close
to the basal metabolic rates of these most