1973 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "Response of body weight to a low carbohydrate, high fat diet in normal and obese subjects"

"We treated obese subjects with high fat, low carbohydrate diets. If the carbohydrate content of the diet was not more than 50 to 60 g/day and the fat content approximately 150 g/day, an average daily weight reduction of 0.3 kg was achieved. The cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations in the serum, which had been raised at the beginning of the experiment, invariably showed a tendency towards normalization under this dietary program."