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This is anecdotal, but here's the results of being on low fat diets for many years. My now aged mother, always on the heavy side, has since the 1960's when she worked in the food service industry and learned about the "benefits" of a low fat diet and exercise, has consistently followed this regimen. She is still 50 lbs overweight, heavily arthritic with deformed and inflamed hands and knees, can hardly walk having required knee surgery and probably needing it in other joints as well. She also has had interstitial cystitis for years, which was alleviated for awhile when she cut out carbs as an experiment (she also lost thirty lbs.) but immediately resumed when she went off the diet. She did not like the idea of eating all that protein and fat, and went back to the starches. I came to call it the Russian peasant diet.
I am convinced that high carb diets cause an arthritis type condition, and can see some of it occurring in myself especially when I splurged around the holidays. My dad, who ate what my mother cooked or served eventually became a diabetic (although it was not diagnosed until just before his death) and developed the most arthritically deformed hands of any person I have seen. None of his relatives had a history of arthritis. Maybe they both had Celiac sprue, but they were so indoctrinated in the benefits of high carb diet that it would have made no difference. I think a person can often clue into the truth by just looking critically at the world around them. Government agencies are too much into the politics of the day to be a source of truth. And very few people can eat according to the official food pyramid without eventually looking like a hog. Maybe that's the goal!!.We are going to be auctioned off by the pound by the government.