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A low carbohydrate, high fat diet can also help reduce, or eliminate, symptoms of schizophrenia.

Your citation was based on a study of ONE patient. I am amazed that this paper was accepted for publication, even by a website. Schizophrenia affects 1% of the population, and costs hundreds of billions per year in treatment, lost income, and secondary effects (crime, courts, prisons, etc.). If it could really be fixed with just a change in diet, I think there would be a little more evidence than just this one patient.

A low carbohydrate, high fat diet can also help reduce, or eliminate, symptoms of schizophrenia.

And now, with this study, we can state with a fair degree of certainty that the AMA was wrong. So now, hopefully, this will put to rest the question of whether the rise in HFCS has caused the temporally coincident rise in obesity in the U.S. (which was previously only suspected due to correlation) so researchers can focus on the more important question of why the body treats it differently.

But it won't. This isn't the first study that has suggested a strong causal link between HFCS and obesity. This one will be ignored by the nay-sayers just like all the others. (Note that some of those links aren't to studies, but rather to papers about the studies, etc., but the links in their references are staggering.) *sigh*

Take a look at Dietary carbohydrate restriction in type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome: time for a critical appraisal. As a "critical appraisal", it references numerous studies (over 60 references!) which support each element of the position I'm arguing for. No "deeply held dogma" here--the "deeply held dogma" is strictly in the low-fat camp, thank you very much.

I guess he thinks that fructose contributes to insulin resistance in the liver, leading to increased production of insulin, which then leads to hyperinsulinemia, which then leads to insulin resistance elsewhere, but I am right at the edge of even pretending to understand the stuff.

This article isn't by Lustig, but it isn't a blog posting or anything and it has a nice discussion of how fructose may push things sideways:

http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/5

Actually, it does make some sense as a side effect.

You may get something useful out of this report: http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/1/1/2

high-fat-diet-induced insulin resistance

High-fat diet indeed. When will the low fatters give it up. Fat does not fuck up carbohydrate metabolism. Carbohydrate fucks up fat metabolism.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/86/2/276
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/21

If you can get fat without eating too much because of genes, then those genes are breaking the laws of thermodynamics. You can't get fat if calorie intake >> calorie expenditure.

You most certainly can if the overall thermodynamic efficiency of your digestive system is above average. I've heard figures before that the body only converts 25-35% of the available energy in food to ATP; having a body with 38% efficiency might mean being able to live on less than 1200 calories/day (equivalent to 4 2-cup bowls of cereal and milk or 1 fast-food serving of American Chinese food) yet still weigh 300 pounds.

See here for more: http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/1/1/ 15 . Note that this is an actual paper from actual PhD biochemists discussing differing levels of thermodynamic efficiency and diets.

Oh, and bother actually reading my post. I already SAID that type 1 was not about sugar - but that Type II is.

Fruit juice tends to have glucose in it, instead of 100% fructose. Fructose by itself has been connected to diabetes, because it has specifically causes different effects in the blood. There have been studies that show insulin response is actually different and prolonged when fructose is consumed compared to glucose.
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/ 5 - I don't know if that article is relevent, but it looks so from the abstract and was returned by a google search for "fructose insulin response". There is a growing comunity of people that are starting to think maybe there is a direct connection between the increased amount of fructose in the diet and the increase in obesity.

Obviously fruit juice still contains fructose, but its definitely a start, if you care about your glycemic response :). You should also be careful because fruit juice is packaged to be deceptive, you have to check the ingredients. I've purchases products that were labeled 100% juice and contained High-Fructose Corn Syrup.