Yeah... except that high quality controlled EXPERIMENTS (such as this cross-over experiment) are vital if we're ever going to settle the diet wars.

Unfortunately, the low-carb nay-sayers out there will pooh-pooh this study because it was sponsored by Arla Food For Health which is associated with the dairy industry. (Arla's web site says "Arla Food for Health sponsors science-based research on identification, isolation and characterization of health associated milk components, including validation, quality and up-scaling of such as well as the mechanisms behind the health benefits of dairy products and ingredients in-vitro, in-vivo and in clinical studies." After all, you can't believe anything those people who want to keep raising COWS and using their products - instead of becoming good little vegans - have to say!

By the way, DKK 4 million is about $600,000 in U.S. dollars. If the researchers spent the entire grant on this one experiment, that works out to spending about $1800 per subject per week to put those 28 subjects on the two cross-over diets, monitor them for 12 weeks, and write up the results. Ya gotta wonder where all the money went.