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Article: Arterial function deteriorates on Atkins diet.(ENDOCRINOLOGY)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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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 ...