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Article: Study shows Atkins diet helps women lose more weight.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2007
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Byline: Barbara Feder Ostrov
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Dieting? Low-carb might be the way to go, at least in the short-term.
Stanford University researchers comparing three popular diets over 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 Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, is the largest controlled ...