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Study throws weight behind low-carb diets.
Byline: Barbara Feder Ostrov
Mar. 7--Dieting? Low carb might be the way to go, at least in the short term. Stanford University researchers comparing three popular diets for a year found that overweight women lost the most weight on the low-carb, high-protein Atkins diet, much maligned by nutritionists in recent years. Although their weight loss was modest, the Atkins dieters also saw drops in blood pressure and cholesterol levels, indicators of improved heart health. The $2 million study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, is the largest controlled trial to date of the Atkins, Zone and Dean Ornish diets. It adds to a growing body of evidence that low-carb diets can help people shed more pounds than low-fat, high-carb eating plans, but it also is likely to elicit renewed protests from nutritionists who maintain that any diet promoting meat and cheese over fruit and whole grains cannot be good for your health in the long run.…
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