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New research presented at a meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) looked at 12 people who followed a low-carbohydrate, high-fat/high-protein diet for 1 year; these patients achieved an aver age weight loss of 11 percent. "This study of overweight individuals showed that a low-carbohydrate [...] high-protein diet can lead to significant weight loss at 1 year of treatment," according to author Dr. William S. Yancy, from the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham, N.C.
Another study at the meeting looked at why the high-protein diet might work. "Obese ...