Articles

1) Thermodynamics and metabolic advantage of weight loss diets (I had to put this one at the top of the research page – Richard D Feinman PhD and Eugene J Fine MD are my current heros. Their papers are very readable and quite brilliant. “A Calorie is a calorie violates the second law of thermodynamics” (Nutritional Journal 2004) is another of their papers and this turns the thermodyamics debate around and challenges that it is not the first law that low carb diets may violate, but the second.

2) Great web site for (free) medical journals (This is the US National Institutes of Health free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature)

3) And another great web site for free medical journals (The Amercian Journal of Clinical Nutrition). I managed to get the following articles free on this web site:

- Lewis et al (1977) “Effect of diet composition on metabolic adaptations to hypocaloric nutrition: comparison of high carbohydrate and high fat isocaloric diets”

- Kasper et al (1973) “Response of body weight to a low carbohydrate, high fat diet in normal and obese subjects”

- Bortz et al (1968) “Fat, carbohydrate, salt and weight loss”

- Krehl et al (1967) “Some metabolic changes induced by low carbohydrate diets”

- Golay et al (1996) “Similar weight loss with low or high carbohydrate diets”

- Young et al (1971) “Effect on body composition and other parameters in obese young men of carbohydrate level of reduction diet”

4) The Newburgh & Johnson Article (1930) – The Calorie Theorists “Bible”! This is commonly held to be THE article that started the whole calories in = calories out view. Thermodynamics obviously provided the fundamental concepts, but this is widely believed to be the first article to take a person and measure food in and waste products out on a scientific, measured basis. I could cry when I think of how much we have based on one article, which in turn is based on observations made over so little time and so few people!

5) Popular Diets: A Scientific Review (2001 “Obesity” A Research Journal – a fascinating and very readable article on low carb vs low calories diets)

Above are the free articles, which I’ve been able to find, below are the ones that I have located and paid for:

6) Paying for articles – I have been able to obtain the following journal articles through libraries and original journal web sites (e.g. The Lancet ):

- Kekwick & Pawan (The Lancet July 1956) “Calorie intake in relation to body-weight changes in the obese”

- Larosa et al (Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1980) “Effects of high-protein, low-carbohydrate dieting on plasma lipoproteins and body weight”

- Cedarquist et al (Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1952) “Weight reduction on low fat and low carbohydrate diets”

- Worthington & Taylor (Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1974) “Balanced low calorie vs high protein low carbohydrate diets”

- Rabast, Schonborn & Kasper (International Journal of Obesity related Metabolic Disorders 1979) “Dietetic treatment of obesity with low and high carbohydrate diets”

- Rabast, Schonborn & Kasper (Nutrition & Metabolism 1978) “Comparative studies in obese subjects fed carbohydrate restricted and high carbohydrate 1000 calorie formula diets”

- Alford, Blankenship, Hagen (Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1990) “The effects of variations in carbohydrate, protein and fat content of the diet upon weight loss….”