Top five medical journal articles of 2018

What review and viewpoint pieces are prominent medical journals choosing to publish these days? In 2018, we saw many low carb-friendly articles get ink.

Here are our five favorite perspectives:

1. Jennifer Abbasi in JAMA:
   Interest in the ketogenic diet grows for weight loss and type 2 diabetes
2. Dr. David Ludwig and Cara B. Ebbeling in JAMA Internal Medicine:
   The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity — Beyond “calories in, calories out”
3. Dr. John Ioannadis in JAMA:
   The challenge of reforming nutritional epidemiologic research
4. Gary Taubes in BMJ:
   What if sugar is worse than just empty calories?
5. Dr. Fiona Godlee in BMJ
   Pills are not the answer to unhealthy lifestyles

An honorable mention goes to these two consensus pieces that came out of the Swiss Re conference this summer. They are longer but worth reading:

• Nita G Forouhi, et. al. in BMJ:
  Dietary and nutritional approaches for prevention and management of type 2 diabetes
• Dr. David Ludwig, et. al. in BMJ:
  Dietary carbohydrates: role of quality and quantity in chronic disease

What lies ahead for 2019? More interest in alternative paradigms among doctors and scientists as we search for options in the fight against chronic disease.

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