Great presentation by @DrAlanWBarclay tonight at the Western Sydney Diabetes nutrition forum
Key take-homes:
- sugar isn't causing diabetes
- reducing sugar intake causes weight loss through reduction of calories
- this can be done with intense (artificial) sweeteners safely
Honestly? No idea. I don't know nearly enough to argue about mechanisms 
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LOL That's a starting point anyway. Then you really don't have enough information to say low-carb diets are unlikely to be better than similarly low calorie high carb diets. Because that *likelihood* does exist. Calories need not be restricted, even inadvertently, for benefit.
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Asking how that might work would lead away from overly simplistic generalizations that low-carb diets are no different from a higher-carb, low-calorie diet because in fact they ARE different. In the latter, calories MUST be restricted & weight MUST be lost for benefit.
End of conversation
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Maybe because these "real-world" studies don't actually reflect the real world--as you pointed out re: % kcals?
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