Study surprise: Low-carb dieters eat more, lose weight
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/diet...y.ap/index.html

Study surprise: Low-carb dieters eat more, lose weight
Tuesday, October 14, 2003 Posted: 12:52 PM EDT (1652 GMT)


FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) -- The dietary establishment has long argued it's impossible, but a new study offers intriguing evidence for the idea that people on low-carbohydrate diets can actually eat more than folks on standard lowfat plans and still lose weight.

Perhaps no idea is more controversial in the diet world than the contention -- long espoused by the late Dr. Robert Atkins -- that people on low-carbohydrate diets can consume more calories without paying a price on the scales.

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"Everyone's food looked similar but was cooked to different recipes. The low-carb meals were 5 percent carbohydrate, 15 percent protein and 65 percent fat. The rest got 55 percent carbohydrate, 15 percent protein and 30 percent fat.

In the end, everyone lost weight. Those on the lower-cal, low-carb regimen took off 23 pounds, while people who got the same calories on the lowfat approach lost 17 pounds. The big surprise, though, was that volunteers getting the extra 300 calories a day of low-carb food lost 20 pounds."

Has anybody actually seen the study? Your post gives the AP article, and I have seen the same article in many places, including our local Newark (NJ) Star Ledger and the Wall Street Journal :exclm: . But neither Harvard nor the Obesity organization has anything on their web sites. Love to see the original so can anyone post a link when they find the original. Thanks

I haven't seen the study but in this article it state's that it was only a pilot study to see if a larger study was warranted.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031014/nytu174_1.html

Greene is quick to point out that this was only a pilot study, though "probably the most elaborate pilot study I have ever heard of. The purpose of the experiment was to see if under these controlled conditions there was really anything to warrant a larger study. And the answer is yes, certainly."