Atkins beats other diet plans in study
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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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An experimental Sanofi-Aventis diet  drug helped people lose much more weight than a placebo in an  eagerly anticipated two-year trial, researchers said on  Tuesday.
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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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TUESDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- A diet rich in the type of carbohydrates that maintain a more stable blood sugar beats out a conventional low-fat diet in reducing the risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, according to a new 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.    Danish obesity expert Dr...
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The company behind the Atkins Diet  on Friday shrugged off a recent decline in interest in low-carb  diets as a seasonal blip, and its marketing chief said  consumers would cut out starchy foods again after picking up  pounds over the holidays.
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(National-NBC) Nov. 17, 2004 - Two new studies from Penn State University researchers are adding to evidence that you don&#39;t have to go hungry to drop pounds.
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02/11/2004 The Atkins diet is facing a backlash, and now the weight-loss plan is in the crosshairs of aggrieved patients and a pro-vegetarian group raising questions about its safety - and bent on suing it out of existence.
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Adults eat twice as many fruits and  vegetables as they did when they were children and take in less  fat and sugar, according to a new study.
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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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Nutritionists have cast doubt on a study which suggested avoiding "bad" carbohydrates leads to weight-loss.
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Nutritionists have cast doubt on a Lancet study showing cutting out &quot;bad&quot; carbohydrates leads to weight-loss. Research on rats by Boston Children&#39;s Hospital showed the diet, which promotes foods with a low glycaemic index (GI) score - could be beneficial.
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ATKINS-style diets are the best for shifting pot bellies in middle-aged men, say researchers. Doctors found fat loss from the chest and stomach was three times greater on the low carbohydrate regimes than a low-fat plan.
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Florida's got the South Beach diet. Now Minnesota's got the "Northwoods Diet." That's what University of Minnesota professor David Bernlohr came up with as the solution when he noticed his waistline expanding. After all, he's an obesity researcher.
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In the first study, Dr. Boukje A. C. van Dijk, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and colleagues analyzed data from the Netherlands Cohort Study on Diet and Cancer, covering more than 120,000 older ...
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Eating large amounts of  carbohydrates does not appear to increase the risk of colon  cancer in women, according to study findings published in the  American Journal of Epidemiology.