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Low-carb diet works, for a while, study finds: Research compared 4 plans: loss modest and often regained.
Byline: Chris Emery
Mar. 7--If you go on a low-carbohydrate diet to shed weight, you've probably made a good decision, according to a new report by Stanford University researchers.
Just don't expect miracles.
In the largest head-to-head study of competing diets so far, low-carb plans such as the Atkins Diet turned out to be safe and effective for losing weight and improving cardiovascular health -- at least in the short run.
In fact, women who aggressively restricted carbs lost nearly twice as much weight over six months as women on higher-carb diets, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported today.
After a year, the low-carb dieters also saw greater improvement in cardiovascular disease risk factors -- such as blood pressure and cholesterol.
The bad news: Even those on the Atkins plan, which outscored three competing diets, were down only 10 pounds after a year. And on every plan, by the end of the study, most dieters were slowly but surely regaining the weight they had lost.
"It shows that people will steadily go back to…
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