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Article: Atkins diet gains credibility Serious studies grant passing marks
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2003
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Atkins diet gains credibility
Serious studies grant passing marks
By MARY DUENWALD AND DENISE GRADY New York Times
Thursday, May 22, 2003
The 31-year-old Atkins diet -- long disparaged by the medical
establishment and just as fervently touted by its adherents -- has
gained some credibility with the publication of two studies
indicating that some measures of heart health improved in people who
followed low-carbohydrate diets for six months or a year.
The two studies are among the first controlled clinical trials to
compare, for longer than 90 days, the kind of low-carbohydrate diets
made popular by the late Robert C. Atkins with the kind of low-fat
diets that doctors have traditionally touted ...