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Article: On what low-carb diets do.(Doctor in the News)(Interview)(Brief article)
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- Cortlandt Forum
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- January 1, 2007
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with Frank Hu, MD, PhD
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Q: Your study found no link between low-carb diets and increased CHD risk in women.
A: Right--and women whose low-carb diets included plant protein from whole wheat bread, brown rice, and legumes and vegetable fat from nuts and canola or olive oil-based salad dressing reduced their heart disease risk by 30%.
Q: Low-carb dieters didn't lose weight. Why?
A: We weren't studying weight loss. This doesn't mean low-carb diets can't be effective for weight loss, but there is no magic bullet. Losing weight is a matter of behavior and psychology, although having a reasonably good diet will ...