Risk of low carb diets

I have spent some time on a low carb diet with some degree of success whilst also trying to decipher the complex battle of the lobbyists of the fast food industry and health professionals, the recent scuffle in this war appearing on the front page of the Daily Express this week with a serious attack on such diets as a major heart risk. Is this a reaction to the recent BBC programme – The men who made us fat? Is it a genuine research backed finding or another ‘funded’ piece of convenient research?
It becomes difficult to tell but the prominence on the front page and the emphasis on the female readership does ring a few alarm bells as to the motives.
I tend to focus on the sense of the likes of Patrick Holford for a more balanced and medical view on the relative pro’s and con’s of various nutrition regimes.