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Studies Say Atkins Diet Offers Short-Term Fix.

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| May 18, 2004 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Raja Mishra

May 18--Two new studies have found that the Atkins low-carbohydrate diet outperforms traditional low-fat diets in the short-term, but offers no weight-loss advantage over more conventional diets after one year.

The findings buttress previous experiments that found the wildly popular diet to be a short-term fix that in the long-term is no better than more conventional approaches.

The well-known nutrition plan now appears to be on the footing as numerous other commercial diets: effective for temporary trimming but unproven as a method for reducing weight-related health risks over a lifetime.

"I don't care that low-carb diets produce short-term weight loss; all diets do," said a Yale nutrition specialist, Dr. David L. Katz.…

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