Carbohydrates may not be the real villains in the hard-fought battle against the bulge after all. A small group of older men and women actually lost weight on a complex carbohydrate diet that let them eat until they were full without counting calories. "This runs counter to the current cult of carbohydrate aversion," says William J. Evans, senior author of the National Institute on Aging-funded study that appears in the Jan. 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Losing weight, of course, has become the great American pastime -- and with good reason. "If someone is overweight with a...