Atkins Diet Has Long-term Dangers, Researchers Warn
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Danish researchers who conducted the review, published in The Lancet, say the diet may be safe to use in the short term -- up to six months -- but that side-effects were more worrying in the long term.
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The low-carb, high-fat Atkins diet gets high marks in one of the biggest, longest head-to-head studies of popular weight-loss plans, beating the Zone, the Ornish diet and even U.S. guidelines. Even so, critics say the results show how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off.
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Nutritionists have cast doubt on a study which suggested avoiding "bad" carbohydrates leads to weight-loss.
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MOTHERS-TO-BE are today warned a supplement essential for healthy babies could double their risk of breast cancer. Early results from a scientific study suggest the long-term affects of women taking folic
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According to a new study, a low fat diet beats low carb when it comes to keeping weight off, in the long term. The research fuels the debate over the effectiveness of Atkins style diets.
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IT is the so-called &quot;wonder diet&quot; which has seen millions of people shed weight while eating fatty foods. But experts today claimed that the fashionable Atkins diet probably only works because it is so boring.
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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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Middle age and elderly women whose diets include a lot of red meat appear to have an increased risk of developing diabetes. Dr. Simin Liu of Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital in
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With low carb diets like Atkins being all the rage across the world, a new study has now indicated that pregnant women can also adhere to the diets as it might have a positive influence on the offspring.
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LONDON - A new study gives scientific clout to a conclusion many already see as obvious: Eating lots of fast food makes you fat and increases the chance of developing diabetes.
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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 diets.
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Survivors with diets high in meat and refined grains triple their risk of recurrence or death.
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Older women who eat a relatively large amount of protein from red meat or dairy products may have an elevated risk of dying from heart disease, the results of a large study suggest.
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People who drank more than one diet soda each day developed the same risks for heart disease as those who downed sugary regular soda, suggests a large but inconclusive study.
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Researchers have linked daily consumption of sugary soft drinks and fruit punches to significant weight gain and a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
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Gastric bypass surgery and similar operations for severe obesity lead to long-term weight loss, and people who have undergone such a procedure have lower risks for heart disease and diabetes than conventionally treated individuals, according to a new Swedish study.
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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