Article: Arterial function deteriorates on Atkins diet.(OBESITY)(Report)

BOSTON -- Proponents of the Atkins low-carbohydrate / high saturated fat diet say that you can have your steak and eat it, too, and still lose weight.

But the adverse metabolic consequences are too heavy a price to pay, Australian investigators reported at a symposium sponsored by the International Atherosclerosis Society.

After 1 year, overweight and obese patients randomly assigned to the Atkins diet or to a low-saturated-fat, high-carbohydrate diet lost similar amounts of weight. But patients on the Atkins diet had a deterioration in flow-mediated arterial dilatation, a marker for cardiovascular disease, and higher levels of LDL cholesterol than at ...

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