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| March 07, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2004 United Press International. 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

CHICAGO, March 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. study says the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet comes out on top in a comparison of four popular diet plans.

The study, published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, says postmenopausal women assigned to follow the Atkins diet for one year lost more weight than women who followed the Zone, Ornish and LEARN diets.

Researchers studied 311 overweight women from February 2003 to October 2005. The women were placed on one of four diets -- the very low carbohydrate Atkins, the low carbohydrate…

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