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With summer weather (finally) among us, and weight loss objectives at it's peak, low-carbohydrate diets continue to be a popular approach for weight loss. Low-cab diets like the ketogenic diet claim to posses advantages for speeding up the metabolism and accelerating fat loss compared with other nutritional weight loss approaches. Advocates of low-carb dieting demonise carbohydrates like breads, pastas, potatoes, rice, fruit, labelling these foods as 'fattening." Over the past decade, multiple studies have specifically investigated whether an advantage actually exists with low-carbohydrate diets compared with high-carbohydrate diets for fat loss. The results of these experimental studies are not at all in favour of low-carbohydrate approaches for body composition change. The theoretical basis for low-carbohydrate diets relates to the "carbohydrate-insulin model," which argues that carbohydrate containing foods elevate insulin levels (a hormone produced by the pancreas), which promote energy storage and prevent energy release. This model is used to argue why eliminating carbs would thereby increase energy expenditure and enhance fat mobilisation. Our latest article looks into the low-carb debate and examines the scientific literature to understand the "carbohydrate-insulin model" and what controlled studies reveal about low-carb versus high-carb diets for accelerating fat loss.