The lady from the view who did a Larry King Live with Taubes, Gillian from The Biggest Loser, Dr Oz, and Andrew Weil--she asked Taubes a question about low carb making you slim. Whatever the exact question might have been, his answer was that he thought carbohydrate restriction would make a person as slim as that person could be. Not slim in comparison to the average person, but slim for that person. This is all paraphrased, and hopefully not misremembered.
Here's an abstract by Jeff Volek and others about a study where diet alone, diet plus aerobics exercise, and diet plus weight training and aerobics all caused similar amounts of weight loss, but more muscle was lost in the non weight training groups.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/e...Pubmed_RVDocSum
I got it from Adam Campbell's blog
here
You can see that most of the weight lost is from the diet end. There's no mention of this being a low carb diet, though.
It's mentioned in the abstract that triglycerides were "significantly reduced for D and DES at week 6 and remained lower at week 12 for D, while triglycerides returned to baseline values for DES."
D was diet only and DES was diet, weight training and aerobic exercise. So in effect, exercise increased triglycerides vs diet only? Curiouser and curiouser.