Low fat diets 'as good as Atkins'
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Low fat diets are as good as the Atkins diet when it comes to losing weight over the long term, a study says.
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New research, published in the BioMedCentral journal, Nutrition &amp; Metabolism, shows that over 70% of men lost more weight and fat on a low carbohydrate diet, despite eating more calories.
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LONDON - Dieters on the popular high-fat, low-carb Atkins approach lose just as much body fat as those on low-fat diets, but the annoying low-carb side effects could mean problems down the road, according to a scientist who reviewed five dozen diet studies
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SAN ANTONIO -- The first experiment ever to show that low-fat diets could help prevent a return of breast cancer now reveals, with longer follow-up, that the benefit was almost exclusively to women whose tumor growth was not driven by hormones.
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Men who eat the kind of low-fat diet recommended to help prevent heart disease also reduce their risk of gallstones, a study finds.
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U.S. dieters will soon be able to  count their carbs on mobile phones, the company behind the  Atkins Diet said on Thursday.
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A new study has revealed that a low-glycemic-index (low-GI) diet, in which carbohydrates are low in sugar or release sugar slowly, can lead to weight loss, reduced body fat, and reduction in risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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LOS ANGELES -- Dutch scientists think they have discovered the diet that can add almost seven years to one&#39;s life and massively cut the risk of heart disease.
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New research suggests that people who lost weight -- and kept it off -- limited their fat, not carbohydrates. Dieters are starting to turn away from the Atkins-style plans for long-term weight control, and a new study backs them up.
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A diet rich in fiber and vegetables  lowered cholesterol just as much as taking a statin drug,  Canadian researchers reported on Monday.
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It&#39;s been hailed as the healthier alternative to the low-carb Atkins diet and has been used for years by diabetics to help manage their condition.
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Catherine Holmes saw the ads for the so-called "dairy diet" and thought it would be a tasty way to lose a few pounds. After all, she loves buttermilk, yogurt and cheese.
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A year-long, head-to-head study of four widely used diets found that overweight women who followed the very low-carbohydrate Atkins diet had no adverse health effects and lost slightly more weight than women on the other three.
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Dieters on the popular high-fat, low-carb Atkins approach lose just as much body fat as those on low-fat diets, but the annoying low-carb side effects could mean problems down the road
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Popular diets such as Atkins and South Beach recommend eating few or no carbohydrates to lose weight. But not all carbs are created equal, and now evidence suggests that using the &quot;glycemic index&quot; may be the way to shed pounds and boost health.
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New research finds low fat beats low carb if you want to lose weight and keep it off. The findings were presented this week at an obesity conference in Las Vegas.
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More than 45 million copies of the books  have been sold and everyone seems to be on it, but researchers  said Friday that Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets do not  help people stay slim.