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Treating insulin resistance with anything but a low carb diet and bringing out the old canard that low carb high fat is dangerous. When my wife developed gestational diabetes they gave her a high carb "balanced" diet to follow, blood sugar monitor and the humalog or whatever insulin prescription to use when the diet failed! They warned her to stay away from fat. They were sure she was going to be on insulin. She trashed their diet and went back to the way she was eating before she was pregnant (Atkins). They were amazed at her blood sugar readings. The doctor literally could not believe that she wasn't going to need insulin and said everybody with her test reading needed it.

Most insulin resistance can be treated with atkins. Read his book and Protien Power. They are very edifying.

I'm by no means anti low-carb. I've seen reduced-carb diets work just fine. I picked that article in the hopes that it would show the anti-Atkins person the value of lowered carbs on PCOS without resorting to stronger low carb articles that they'd reject out of hand. Carbs cause all sorts of problems for people with PCOS, many of whom are overweight and try to diet. If they are given a high-carb/low-fat diet, they will (as you say) fail. But, again, I think they key is to see what works (which, if you've read it, that article does suggest ajusting carbs downward). For some people with PCOS, Atkins works. For others, reduced carb diets such as The Zone or Carbohydrate Addicts works just fine. If you can lose weight with it, use it. But as with all things that can change a person's life, diets seem to encourage a one-size-fits-all religious zealousness which I don't think is helpful.