This kerfuffle truly saddened me, why am I constantly having to defend or justify myself and what I choose to eat/feed my daughter? More ammo for the sat fat tax here in the UK (that said I think they don't want the fight and to be shown to have been leading the British public a merry dance for the past 30 years).
Why was theire no big international health splash about the second study?
The veggies have totally siezed the highground in the science, the PR and the ethics despite the fact that it is unethical and unscientific to exclude animal products.
Many in my family are increasing the helathiness of thir diets this press bollocks has really worried them, which of course was the point.

Awesome, J. Hopefully the people who would be best served by reading your debunking won't lack the intelligence to appreciate it's significance...hopefully.
On another subject, Peter Attia, the gentleman who I saw give a presentation with Gary Taubes last year and who has some rather astonishing numbers from his own personal nutritional experiment (albeit n=1, but, hey, if he can do it, then it at least proves that it is possible to eat more calories, exercise less and shed body fat as long as one severely restricts carbohydrates) finally has a web presence (blog and then some) over at waroninsulin.com just as I recommend his readers to you I recommend his blog to you. In addition to being an M.D. He's also a ketoadapted endurance athlete who crosstrains with crossfit type exercises at a very high level!

Even if they were correct, would you give up a nice porterhouse every week for another bowl of tofu on seaweed?

Not me.......

masterful, sir. thank you!

Truth will out. Or we'll outlive the SAD eaters because our dietary choices are based on truth and wisdom--a powerful cocktail for success and thriving. I propose we invite the authors of this study to a panel discussion at AHS12 at Harvard this August to respond to your post, Denis Minger's, and Zoe Harcombe's deconstruction of their study. I'd really like to hear their reactions at justifying their own existence.

Thirty plus years ago I read a small book by Roger Williams (not sure of his name but he had many scientific honors in his resume). "Nutrition in a nutshell". His advice is still valid: Variety is the best nutrition of all. He even reminded us that protein was not just muscle tissue, as in steak. Kidneys, pancreas, brains too, in moderation. In another early study on cholesterol a doctor from Canada (I think the book was The Cholesterol Controversy, pointed out that animals on extremely low cholesterol diet aged faster and on autopsy had spleens with "abnormal " histological findings typical of old age.

JS your final comment is bunkum