And this discussion section was seven paragraphs long,
just to give you a sense of how long they might be.
Here's the last paragraph, paragraph seven.
Notice that they restate their key findings in the last paragraph.
They restate their answers to the two questions they were asking.
Taken together, our findings demonstrate that this population lost more weight
during six months on a carb-restricted diet than on a low fat diet.
So that was answer to question a.
The carb-restricted diet led to greater improvements in insulin sensitivity that
were independent of weight loss, wasn't just because they lost more weight.
And a greater reduction in triglyceride levels in
subjects who lost more than 5% of their weight.
So they've just answered question b.
They've just restated what they said in the opening two paragraphs.
But you want to sum up, because that's the really,
that's the big take home messages in the study that answers the questions asked.
Then they go on to give some other big picture things, they give a caution.
They want to say, this doesn't mean that everybody should wash out and
go on a low carb diet, because in the grand scheme of things,
the weight loss was still pretty small even in the low carb group.
Also, there was a high drop out rate which means the diet is hard to stick to, So
based on all that, they end with a take home message to physicians.
This study proves a principal and does not provide clinical guidance.
Given the known benefits of fat restriction,
future studies evaluating long-term cardiovascular outcomes are needed
before a carb restricted diet can be endorsed.
They don't want to overstate their findings.
They're saying, there's still some questions to be answered and we don't
want to translate our findings yet into an actual clinical recommendation.
So they ended here with the restatement of there main findings, but
then kind of the caution, a big picture caution.