Hate to break it to you, but even cardiologists can’t summon causation from correlation.
Edit: vegetable --> plant, and if I win (we can agree on some defined objective comparisons and scoring offline) I'll even donate the money you'd have repaid back to the charity of my choosing. I'd be glad to make our miminal findings public as well.
Read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes if you want to do a deep dive on how so many people can be so wrong about something for so long. It will completely undermine your faith in experts along the way.
[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16epidemiology-t...
[1]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2017/januaryfebruary/us...
My guess here is that it's because you offered somebody a 6-12 month physical challenge on a discussion thread about nutrition. Unless you're willing to engage in a 6-12 month comprehensive study of messageboard thread challenges, which we will cofinance (but in the end, if we find that these types of challenges are generally accepted as arguments, I'll compensate you for your half of the research budget, and vice-versa), you must concede that that's a silly thing to wonder about...
You should read it. Seriously. It’s way more important than anything else on HN right now. I promise.
In fact, the study he proposed to test his hypothesis failed: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Manage-Weight/NuSI-study-bac...
That's not to say Taubes has not written a lot of good and important things, but it is an example of someone who is in so deep that they are missing the forest for the trees. Carbs are obviously not the devil, it's just that the overabundance of cheap, processed carbs have made the diseases of abundance commonplace.
Do you have a link to your before/after panels? I'd be curious to see this, and also be interested in your before/after diet.