Study: Low-Fat Beats Low-Carb Diets For Shedding Pounds
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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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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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More than 45 million copies of the books have been sold and everyone seems to be on it, but researchers say that Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets do not help people stay slim.
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(HealthDay News) -- No matter what kind of diet you're on -- low-fat, high-protein, or low-carb -- hunger may be lurking to derail many weeks of discipline.
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A new study suggests that small diet substitutions can make a big impact in the fight against obesity. Researchers recently added fruits and vegetables and reduced fat and sugar in the diets of 24 women.
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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.    Danish obesity expert Dr...
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THE TREND: Low-carbohydrate diets were wildly popular a year ago, but interest has waned. A study by NPD Group, an independent marketing information company, found that the percentage of American adults on any low-carb diet in 2004 peaked at 9.1 percent in February and dropped to 4.9 percent by early November.
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About a year ago, Dave Champlin and his two roommates lived in what their friends at the University of Missouri called the House of Fat. At a combined weight of 890 pounds, the three decided to try the Atkins diet. By sticking to the low-carb, high-protein diet, Champlin lost about 45 pounds and his roommates each lost between 50 and 60 pounds.
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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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A small study suggests that there is a way to counteract the negative health effects of a high-fat meal.
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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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The pounds may fall off in the first few months but the Atkins diet does not help people lose weight in the long term and it may be dangerous, according to a scientific review of research.
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The Atkins diet is more effective on men than women, according to the results of a University of Connecticut study. \\. A third of the 15 men on the low carbohydrate diet lost more than 10lbs with one participant
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Low-carb diets like the Atkins and South Beach plans appear to work better on men than women, University of Connecticut researchers concluded from a new study.
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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, according to a scientist who reviewed five dozen diet studies.
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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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Low fat diets are just as effective as the controversial Atkins diet when it comes to losing weight over the long term, according a study.